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Update: Power Knocked Out By Overnight Storms is Restored
The intersection of Broad and East Main Streets and areas surrounding it were blacked out Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.
Update - Thursday, 3:39 p.m.
Power has been restored to the remaining homes knocked out last night, according to Connecticut Light and Power spokesman Mitch Gross.
Thunderstorms caused the outage, which at 11 p.m., cut electricity to major streetlights and more than 9,000 customers in the city.
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Original Story, Wednesday, 11 p.m.
If you're headed towards East Main and Broad Streets, drive carefully.
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A power outage that has knocked out 9,737 CL&P customers in Meriden, according to a company outage map, has blackened streetlights at this major intersection, along with power in other area streets, including Parker Ave. Police with flares are now monitoring the area, but it is still difficult to see.
At about 11:10 p.m. the Meriden Police desk sergeant said he didn't know what had caused the outage, and that officers were waiting for CL&P to respond.
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