3:25 am. The lights went on. Hurray!
CLP still sucks, but I’m grateful to the linesmen working into the night.
5:30pm Power/heat/water back on, and I return to the modern world. I’m leaving the generator set up for a few hours though, just in case this is a fake out.
I’m a little confused and hope someone can enlighten me. The places that got the huge snow is used to having big snow storms, right? This isn’t like a blizzard in downtown LA, which would probably wipe off half the population. But you guys get snow every year, you’re used to cold temps. Even if this came a bit early, why was there so much destruction and loss of electricity? Not to be snarky, but how come the northeast wasn’t prepared for a storm?
The storm came early in the season, when trees still had leaves on them. It was a heavy wet snow, which weighed down the trees more than storms that come later in winter. There was heavy wind, gusting over 40 miles an hour. We had several days of rain before the storm, soaking the ground, loosening tree roots.
The result was many more fallen trees and branches, which caused widespread damage to power lines. It was not due to the amount of snow, or the temperature; it was the combined conditions that damaged the trees, which damaged the power lines. The snow is practically gone already.
Hate you all - making plans to stay the weekend with my parents if needed. My parents! Desperate times indeed.
Last night my roommate brought home a friend who had regained power back on Monday, then lost it again yesterday! WTF is up with that???
We lost power Saturday night and then were up again by late Tuesday afternoon. Way faster than Irene…
As has been mentioned repeatedly, the TREES STILL HAD ALL THEIR LEAVES. This means that a CRAPLOAD more snow stuck to the trees and weighed down the branches, causing them to break.
This. I’ve never seen so many branches down from a snowstorm, and I’ve lived in serious snow country. It was like the roads were covered in shrapnel from all the broken trees.
I’m still in the dark. I’ve seen a few out of state crews around, but the half of a tree stuck in the wires across the street is still there. I’m guessing Tuesday or Wednesday at the earliest for power. I don’t even care about the power–I just want heat and a hot shower in my bathroom.
That’s terrible. I’m sorry. 
I am extremely skeptical that CL&P is going to restore even half of the 175,000 still without power by tomorrow night. I assume I still have no power as my town is still half out and my individual line was ripped right off the side of my house.
I’ve been staying with relatives for a week. My power bill better be really low this month.
I finally got it back… home and warm, finally, but I feel for the rest of you who are still without.