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CT '21: Eversource CEO discusses storm response

Connecticut was spared the worst of Tropical Storm Henri last weekend, thanks to a slight shift in the track. ....

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MSNBC Yasmin Vossoughian Reports August 21, 2021 20:05:00

Warned us there could be hundreds of thousands of outages over the next, you know, few days and beyond. that said, i m standing here with some folks at the emergency operation center, and i want you to know that i don t think connecticut has ever been as well prepared for a storm as we are for hurricane henri. we work very closely, as you can imagine, with our utilities in particular, eversource, united illuminating, and they re assuring us they will have twice as many people on the ground pre-position as we had a year ago. that makes a big difference. we will be able to respond faster and respond in a way that does everything we can to keep you safe. the other thing we ve work on very closely with the utilities as well as the telecom companies and if you go back here at the emergency operations center, the big round table with the boards in front, we ve had all of the commissioners, and ....

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MSNBC Yasmin Vossoughian Reports August 21, 2021 20:04:00

Region. this is particularly severe because it is going to be 8-plus inches of rainfall on top of tons of rainfall that we ve had over the last week. that means our ground is saturated. that means our ground sitting on top of non- porous luring is like a flood. there s no more absorbing and that leads to flood in. combine it with the fact we will have an astronomical tide. i mean astronomical in the sense we have a very full moon, the highest tides you can have. that combined with the wind gives a risk along the coastline and interior flooding with the saturation of the soil. the saturation of the soil combined with the fact we could have 70, 80-mile-per-hour winds, that makes the trees a lot less secure. they go over, power goes out, and eversource and ui have ....

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