Tropical Storm Isaias: 27% Of Darien Still Without Power Friday

DARIEN, CT — Tropical Storm Isaias roared through Connecticut on Tuesday, leaving a trail of destruction and power outages throughout Darien and various parts of the state. As a result, Everource officials have been left scrambling for solutions.

As of Friday evenning, three days after the storm, nearly 2,200 Eversource utility customers remained without power in Darien, or just over 27 percent of the customers in town.

Late Thursday night, Eversource — which the state is investigating due to its poor response to the storm — said it expects to have power restored to virtually all of its customers by late Tuesday night.

"Eversource estimates it will make significant progress by the end of the weekend and have its restoration substantially complete by Tuesday, August 11th at 11:59 p.m., with many customers restored before that time," officials wrote. "Substantially complete means fewer than one percent of customers are still without power."

Darien First Selectman Jayme Stevenson took to Twitter Friday to blast the utility over its slow response to the storm.

Additional crews were expected to arrive to help out in Connecticut on Friday, apparently because they were not requested earlier by Eversource officials.

Internet service was down for large portions of Fairfield County in the days following the storm, but much of it was back in service by Friday, according to Altice. Many customers of Frontier Communications, however, still did not have internet service on Friday.