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No 7: Power losses from Isaias led to change: Legislature took action to Take Back Our Grid | Connecticut & Region

As the year draws to a close, the Journal Inquirer has compiled a list of the Top 10 Stories of 2020. This is the next in that series, which concludes on Dec. 31. One of the worst tropical storms — Isaias — tore through Connecticut in early August, leaving one dead and more than 600,000 people without power for days on end, prompting a review of what many called an inadequate response by Eversource Energy, the state’s major utility company, and ultimately action by the state legislature and the governor. On Tuesday, Aug. 4, Isaias made landfall in North Carolina as a hurricane before charging up the East Coast and slamming into Connecticut as a tropical storm.

New Canaan first selectman says Eversource risked livcs

New Canaan first selectman says Eversource risked lives John Kovach FacebookTwitterEmail New Canaan Public Works workers waited for more Eversource trucks to show up in summer 2020 so they could clean up damage from Tropical Storm Isaias, which was brief, but very damaging.Grace Duffield / Hearst Connecticut Media NEW CANAAN Lives were put at risk by Eversource’s actions after Tropical Storm Isaias, First Selectman Kevin Moynihan told state regulators Monday. The hearing was part of an investigation by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority into response by Eversource to the storm, criticized by municipal leaders as being slow and disorganized. At the peak after the Aug. 4 storm, 90 percent of the 8,531 New Canaan homes and businesses served by Eversource were without power, and service was not fully restored for a week or more. Phone and internet were cut to people working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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