About 12,000 CVPS customers were without power this morning. Heavy wet snow began building up and bringing down trees, tree limbs and lines primarily in Windham and Windsor counties around 4:30 a.m.
A large transmission fault occurred at about 7 am, affecting more than 5,500 customers. Crews are working to sectionalize that problem, and restore power to those customers within the hour. The storm was expected to continue until early in the afternoon, but in Springfield only produced periods of light rain after the snow fall ended before daybreak.
“Crews reported about 6 to 8 inches of heavy wet snow in Windsor and Windham counties,” said spokeswoman Christine Rivers.
The towns of Dummerston, Jamaica, Cavendish, Chester and Hartford were hit hardest earlier this morning, and now Woodstock Town and Village, among others are without power due to the transmission fault. We also have broken pole just outside the Riverside substation in Springfield.
“We will work as quickly as we safely can this morning to restore power to our customers, however we may see additional outages this morning, so numbers may go up,” Rivers said. “Barring any large additional problems, power should be restored to customers by tonight.”
Source: Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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