Tree on wires, August 10, 2010, East Hampton (Courtesy CL&P)
The National Weather Service will be taking a first hand look at damage done by Friday’s severe storm in South and East Glastonbury, where numerous trees and wires came down.They will be trying to determine if the damage was caused by a tornado or straight-line winds.The deputy emergency management director in town,Mike Roberts said “good amount” of trees and power lines were down in eastern Glastonbury,but he wasn’t aware of and structural damage.The storm moved from south to north across Connecticut after spawning an EF-0 tornado in Ronkokoma on Long Island.
Connecticut Light and Power had 17 thousand customers without electrity at the height of the storm, with the largest outages in Manchester, Vernon, Glastonbury,Portland,Montville and Waterford.
Heavy rain in New Haven flooded streets and resulted in the closure of the Route 34 connector for a time.Train service at Union Station was interrupted.A concert on the Green in New Haven scheduled for Friday night was canceled.



