WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — It didn’t last long but made its mark.
A fast moving tropical storm rolled through Connecticut blowing and bowling down trees and taking power lines with them.
In West Hartford, about 52 percent of residents lost power.
"We had about 441 emergency calls for service at the height and our public safety dispatchers answered about 900 calls in that period of time," Fire Chief Greg Priest said.
Walking in his neighborhood on Whitman Avenue, Daniel Thomas noted all the debris that had temporarily changed the landscape where he lives.
“There’s a line down and it’s replicated road after road after road and it really hits home, this is all around town," Thomas added. "It’s going to take a long time to clean this up.”
The town of West Hartford has added resident charging stations at select public school lots.
Most of them will be available from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The charging station list is as follows:
- Conard - Berkshire Road - outside of grounds garage across from cafeteria
- King Philip - 100 King Philip Drive - to the far right of main entrance
- Bristow - 34 Highland Street - main entrance at north end of building
- Charter Oak - 425 Oakwood Avenue - outside cafeteria/gym entrance off of playground
- Morley - 77 Bretton Road - kindergarten playground at front of building
- Norfeldt - 35 Barksdale Road - front entrance
- Whiting Lane - 47 Whiting Lane - north parking lot, loading dock
Cleanup efforts also continued in the capital city. FOX61's Zinnia Maldonado was live from Hartford.
