Storms bring down trees, flood roads and knock power out for thousands in parts of CT

A line of storms moved into Connecticut before sunrise Friday, causing flooding, bringing down trees and knocking out power for thousands.

Power Outages

Eversource was reporting more than 16,000 power outages and most of them are in Bristol, Plainville, Glastonbury Newtown, Branford and Naugatuck.

That number was down to about 1,400 power outages by Friday afternoon.

You can check the Eversource power outages here.

United Illuminating was reporting 1,700 outages, most of which were in Stratford, but that number is down to around 100.

You can check the UI outages here.

Berlin

In Berlin, police and firefighters are rescuing drivers who are stuck in flooding.

Police officers and firefighters are blocking roads for flooding and rescuing drivers who are stuck on Meadow/Lower Lane, Hummingbird, Grandview/Newton and Farmington Avenue at Depot Road.

They asked drivers to avoid these areas and not to go around cones or barricades and attempt to drive through deep water.

Bristol

Bristol police warned that traffic lights along Route 6 were out and urge drivers to be cautious.

Meriden

In Meriden, public works crews had to work to clean up trash that is floating along Summer Street when trash bins flipped over in flooding.

Rocky Hill

In Rocky Hill, water flooded the lobby and rooms on the first floor of the Holiday Inn Express on Waterchase Drive.

Rocky Hill Fire Chief Michael Garrahy said the first call from the hotel came in around 7:30 a.m. and this was the first time he has had to deploy an inflatable boat in the parking lot.

"We also had cars underwater in the restaurant parking lot immediately to our north. We deployed a rescue Zodiac to check the vehicles to make sure they were unoccupied and they were," Garrahy said.

One person was evaluated for injuries.

The hotel estimates the damage to be around $200,000.

"Everyone's stuff on the first floor is flooded. It came up on the second floor a little bit. But literally, it got into each of the rooms on the first floor. So, people's clothes, people's items, people's electronics -- gone. Everything's gone," Rael Ferguson, of Berlin, said.

Fire officials said several cars in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Express and On The Border were flooded, part of the Interstate 91 underpass was also closed due to roadway flooding and the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection was notified about contaminants in the water, including a large cooking oil spill.

West Haven

In West Haven, several trees came down.

A massive tree came down in the front yard of a home on Milhave Drive.

The storms also brought down a basketball hoop and flipped over a trampoline.

After the storms

The rest of the day will be mainly dry with a few isolated pop-up showers possible, especially in eastern Connecticut.

Big changes are in store this weekend with more sunshine, lower humidity, and afternoon high temps in the 70s and 80s.

You can get the latest forecast anytime here.