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51 Percent of Power Restored in Windsor
Windsor made the jump from 96 percent to 49 percent without power overnight, according to the CL&P outage map.
While residents may have been dismayed Thursday afternoon after witnessing CL&P's outage map numbers go in the wrong direction, crews made significant progress overnight on Thursday.
According to the utility's latest map, 49 percent of customers in Windsor are currently without power.
Major parts of town continued to spring to life Friday morning, with shops opening down Broad Street and up Route 75.
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Traffic lights worked, for the most part, on main roads until the outskirts of town towards Bloomfield, which was reported still be 84 percent without power as of 9 a.m. Friday.
The reason for the progress made in Windsor, according to the emergency operations center staff, is the repair of transmission lines coming into town, allowing the 20 line crews and 10 tree crews to repair individual lines in sections across town.
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As of Friday morning, CL&P is sticking to its estimate of 99 percent restoration by midnight on Sun., Nov. 6; 304,000 CL&P customers remain without power as of Friday morning.
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