Daily More than 5: Thursday Morning Update on Everything (with Video)

Connecticut Light & Power’s outage map (click here for the text version, best for mobile phones)  shows that 67 percent of Montville customers are without power this morning.

Wednesday afternoon, lights on Route 32 were working. Power appeared to be on on the length of Route 32 in Montville.

If your house was damaged in the storm, call the state's telephone hotline at 2-1-1, or go online at www.211ct.org or contact Montville' Emergency Operations Center at 860-848-1417. Fire Marshal Ray Occhialini asks that you please do this today, before 3 p.m.

Officials will then use the information collected to help put together the state’s official request for a disaster declaration from FEMA.

You can get nonpotable water today, for flushing toilets, watering plants, etc., at Montville Firehouse on Route 163, and also at the Oakdale Firehouse on Chapel Hill Drive. In addition, you can get ice at Montville Firehouse.

Ashley Turner, Addie Brouillard and Meredith Morin were helping out Wednesday at the Montville Firehouse. (And they were having fun with the hose). They said that eight or 10 people had come to get water during their shift.

Tim Barnhouser said the power was tantalizingly close to his home on Spruce Lane, but as of Wednesday afternoon, was not on.

You can shower today, from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Montville High School. Bring your own towels and shampoo, soap, etc.

You can get drinking water at the high school, too. Bring your own containers.

The WPCA power came on in the nick of time Wednesday, says Assistant Superintendent Tom McNally, as one of the main generators at the treatment plant went out, and the facility was supplementing its generated work with a portable pump.

Wednesday morning, only four of the WPCA’s 27 pumping stations had power. It was costing $12,000 per day in diesel fuel and $3,000 per day in propane to run the system.

If the pumps or pumping stations fail, the water stops running and the sewage backs up into homes.

It’s been “quite the nightmare,” McNally said.

The Freedom of Information seminar scheduled for this evening has been canceled.

Peter Bushway, director of the Parks & Recreation Department, reports that the storm caused “very little damage” to town facilities.

Two trees came down behind the outfield fence of the softball field at Fair Oaks.

Fair Oaks itself had four small leaks in the roof where air exchangers had been installed. Bushway writes that he moved some barrels to catch the water. Two of the leaks were in the gym and two in the library.

Because of the Red Cross food-distribution program that is still using the gym (click to read a story about the program), Zumba has been canceled for the week, Bushway writes.

The rest of the construction is still not complete, he writes.

The state has help for you if your business lost money because of the storm. Click for that story. The Chamber of Commerce also has help for you. Click for that story.

If you are having work done in the wake of the storm, or have spent money to repair your home, make sure you keep all receipts and document all work.

If you have insurance questions, click for a story listing phone numbers you will need.

If you have brush or chopped-up trees, you can bring them to the temporary brush drop-off at Route 163 and Oxoboxo Dam Road.

If you need some help, or you need to borrow a generator, or you have some other particular need, or if you have help or a generator or some other handy item to lend, or if you have a great idea about getting through this, please use the Montville Patch’s “Needs, Offers & Ideas” area. Click or find it on the home page.

Want to read all the hurricane stories you missed while the power was out? Click !

Coming up at 10 this morning, it’s a story and video of Sgt. Mike Collins’s retirement party, and an interiew with Collins himself, who retired Wednesday after 24 years working for the Connecticut State Police.

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