page_title: Effects of Hurricane Sandy in New England
section_title: Connecticut
hierarchical_section_title: Effects of Hurricane Sandy in New England / Impact / Connecticut
caption_attribution_description: At first light Tuesday, Metro-North dispatched diesel-powered patrol trains on all three lines, Hudson, Harlem and New Haven, to inspect the tracks and remove trees along the way. Carrying track workers with chain saws, signal maintainers and power department personnel, the trains made slow progress as they encountered numerous trees snapped and lying across tracks and hung up in the overhead catenary wires that power the New Haven Line. In a some cases, the wires were town down. Elsewhere, heavy trees have crushed the third rails that power the Hudson and Harlem lines. On a positive note, shops and yards in New Haven and Stamford appeared to have been unscathed by the storm.
context_page_description: The effects of Hurricane Sandy in New England in late October 2012 spread as far north as Maine, and included hurricane-force wind gusts.
context_section_description: On October 28, Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed an executive order extending, by two days, the in-person voter registration deadline to Thursday, November 1, at 8 p.m. for those who intended to vote in the November 6 election. Clean utility water in the state may have been compromised by sewage backups or pollution caused by seawater churned up by Sandy. Norwalk Mayor Richard Moccia said the city's sewage treatment plant was going to be shut down the night of October 29 to minimize damage from the high tide expected later that night. For this reason, Moccia asked residents not to flush their toilets. The storm knocked out power to over 600,000 customers throughout the state.
  As of late evening on Wednesday, October 31, there were still 378,000 power outages. It was reported that Madison, Connecticut, had the highest recorded wind speed in Connecticut of 85 miles per hour (137 km/h).
  Throughout Connecticut, four people, including a firefighter from Easton, were killed, and damage amounted to at least $360 million.
caption: A fallen tree in Fairfield County, Connecticut
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