company to come and try to help him out that way. again, power lines down here, we do know there are power lines down throughout the city. over here is where the homeowner told me that the power got knocked out. you see the dangling wires up there on that pole. that's where the power got knocked out in this neighborhood. so you've got that to deal with in many of these neighborhoods here in new london. again, this area was so saturated with water already with recent storms in recent weeks that you had situations like this. this is what people, the local officials were worried about here in new london and groton, connecticut. they had so much rain, the ground was saturated. any small amount of wind could pick up a tree and bring it down on a house like this one. that's what happened here, but by and large, officials here in new london and in groton are pretty thankful right now that they dodged most of what they anticipated would be major damage from this storm. brian todd, cnn, new london, connecticut. >> let's talk about all of this