CL&P's projection for restoring the "vast majority" of its customers was "Monday or Tuesday," according to William Quinlan, a senior vice president for the utility.
"This is an estimate, it is not a guarantee," Quinlan said, adding that pockets of customers in particularly difficult areas would probably go beyond that date.
Quinlan said about 2 percent of customers would likely fall into that category.
The number of lineman being brought in from outside the company was expected to go from 1,080 on Wednesday to about 2,000 in the next several days, Quinlan said.
Of the thousands of "trouble spots" still left to repair, Quinlan said some of them involve trees on power lines but other — at least 1,000 — involve placing new poles.
"Our singular focus is on the 250,000 customers who remain without power," he said.
Every street has downed power line in this area though....
As Dave stated above, if you went through 2 outages last year and did not invest in a generator, it is a sound investment. I've lived in this town for over 15 years. We lost power almost every other day in the winters then. Now almost never. CL&P have done a great job improving the lines but they are still above ground. No line is a match for a tree that falls on it. Underground power is a great idea but again... WE will have to pay for that.
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originally.
"We are aware of an outage affecting your area. Estimated date and time your power will be restored: Friday, November 02, 2012 9:00 PM" it's been 4pm, then "unknown", then 7pm, then 9pm. Holding my breath...NOT but we'll get it eventually!!! Still smiling.
"We are aware of an outage affecting your area. Estimated date and time your power will be restored: Saturday, November 03, 2012 1:15 PM"