Third Of Hamden Loses Power

As of 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, about 34 percent of Hamden was without power as Tropical Storm Isaias tore through a town that has been cursed in the past by severe weather.

According to United Illuminating (UI), over 9,000 of the town’s 27,209 customers were out of power at 4. There were 47 separate outages that the utility was aware of.

Throughout town, trees were down and branches littered roads.

On Treadwell Street in Whitneyville, a tree had fallen on a house (pictured at the top of this story).

In West Woods, where a tornado ripped up large swaths of forest in 2018, trees were down, like this one at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (above).

Ridge Road was littered with branches, and trees were down on the side of the road.

There were trees and power lines down all over town. A UI map showed a concentration of outages in the southern part of town, though there were a few major ones up North.

An outage in West Woods between Still Hill Road and Shepard Avenue accounted for 2,100 customers out of power. Another off of Evergreen Avenue near Forest Street accounted for 1,400 customers without power. An outage just south of where the Wilbur Cross Parkway crosses Dixwell Avenue accounted for 1,995 customers without power. Another nearby on Benham Street put nearly 1,300 out of power.

Click here to view UI’s map of outages.