High winds leave more than 1,500 without power
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Several towns across Connecticut are experiencing power outages due to high winds that blew between Friday night and Saturday morning.
Among the hardest-hit towns were Harwinton with about 298 outages, Middletown with 290, Newtown with 187 and Litchfield with 185. Woodstock and Weston have also reported over 100 outages as of 7:43 a.m. Saturday morning and there are other, smaller clusters of outages scattered around the state.
An Eversource outage map reported 1,530 outages statewide as of 8:30 Saturday morning.
Harwinton First Selectman Michael Criss said the town received wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour, the heaviest ones striking between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. Saturday morning. The majority of outages have been traced back to Route 4, which a portion of is currently closed off as Eversource crews work to fix a downed power line. However, there are “little clusters” of about 10 to 12 outages lingering th