Storm Knocks Out Power In Stafford, Willington

STAFFORD/WILLINGTON, CT — Residents of Willington and Stafford woke up to a mess of power outages Tuesday, the present left behind by a rainstorm accompanied by heavy wind.

At 7:30 a.m. Willington had the most in the area with 1,094 homes without power, according to the Eversource outage map. That's 31 percent of the Eversource customer base in town. By 1 p.m., the number was down to 834.

Stafford had the most rain as the amount exceeded 2 inches. A total of 413 homes had lost power by morning and it was down to 252 by 1 p.m., according to the Eversource outage map.

According to the National Weather Service, the easternmost Interstate 84 corridor receivd the brunt of the storm with rain totals up to 2 inches from Vernon, through Tolland and into Willington, Stafford and Union.

The area near near I-84's Exits 70 to 73 received 2.05 inches of rain.

Though specific station‑by‑station NWS gust records for each town hadn’t been published early Tuesday morning, the statewide data indicate that gusts along the I‑84 corridor likely reached 35 to 45 mph during the Monday afternoon hours and up to 50 and even 60 mph overnight into Tuesday.