As of Wednesday morning, CL&P's outage map reports that Windsor has gained 5 percent power since Sunday.
Accordingly, locations have slowly begun to open across town. Bart's and the Dairy Bar were open Tuesday, in addition to restaurants and gas stations that have operated since Sunday and Monday, including Dom's Broad Street Eatery and Tunxis Grille.
The main library will be open Wednesday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
According to CL&P, a number of communities have already been restored to 99 percent power, including Branford, Clinton, Essex and Putnam.
CL&P has already restored more than 400,000 customers, according to a press release from the utility Wednesday morning, leaving more than 550,000 customers still in the dark in multiple towns throughout the state. Butler said CL&P made “good progress" with restoration on Monday, and it has 770 crews actively working on the ground to remove downed lines and trees and get towns back on the grid.
Main arteries, such as commercial districts in towns, are mostly restored, allowing for residents to buy groceries, visit the pharmacy and, as Malloy noted, most importately "get gas."
“I recognize that doesn’t mean anything to anyone who has been out of power for an extended period of time,” Butler said.
Butler later added that he understood the public’s frustration with the fact that power hasn’t been restored yet. Some communities in the state are still facing significant outages, including Suffield, with 93 percent out on Wednesday morning, Enfield, with 76 percent out, and Windsor Locks, with 98 percent out.
But Butler added that he was also “extremely frustrated” with the situation.
“To go through two record events in two months, it’s something I haven’t dealt with in my career,” Butler said. “We’re here to serve customers and to have large number of customers out for an extended period of time is something that has frustrated us as well."
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