The season’s first significant snowfall made for slick roads, power outages and led to a number of schools around Connecticut shutting down or operating on a delay.
Flakes began to fall in parts of the state in the evening hours Wednesday and continued overnight before tapering off in the morning hours. Some areas in the northern portion of the state and elevated areas saw around four inches.
The snow made for a messy morning commute.
According to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, multiple lanes of Interstate 84 East in Danbury were closed Thursday morning because of a crash involving a tractor-trailer between Exits 5 and 7. One lane of Interstate 95 South was also closed because of a collision involving a tractor-trailer between Exits 23 and 24.
State Route 603 was closed in Hebron in the area of East Street because of wires that came down, the DOT reported. Part of Route 148 in Killingworth was closed between Lovers Lane and Route 82 after a tree came down.
A number of school districts canceled school on Thursday, including those in Andover, Ashford, Avon, Bristol, Eastford, Hebron, Killingly, Mansfield, Marlborough, Montville, Plainville, Putnam, Stafford, Tolland, Waterbury, Windsor Locks and others. There were also numerous school delays across the state, including those in Hartford, Berlin, Bloomfield, Cromwell, East Hartford, Farmington, Glastonbury and other cities and towns.
According to Eversource, 10,886 customers out of the more than 1.3 million the power company serves were without electricity as of about 7:30 a.m. This included 4,571 customers in Stafford, 263 in Canterbury, 938 in Tolland, 592 in Thompson, 158 in Coventry, 503 in Ellington, 829 in Mansfield and 917 in Somers.
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