Groton To Distribute Meals Ready to Eat and Water At Poquonnock Plains Park

The Groton Department of Emergency Management will distribute ready-to-eat meals and water at Poquonnock Plains Park for people who have no way to prepare their own foods, said Joseph Sastre, director of emergency management.

The town ordered 6,000 meals, called MREs, which have been delivered to the park and will be distributed from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m.

“Until the supply flow starts, we’re going to give people one days worth of food per person,” or two meals, he said. For example, a couple with two children would receive eight meals.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is supplying the meals and the town is distributing them. No decision has been made yet as to how long they will be available.

“It depends on the need,” Sastre said.

Other hurricane updates are below:

• The Emergency Operations Center in Groton, which has been open since Saturday, will remain open until further notice. The number is (860) 445-2000.

• The Groton Senior Open was open Tuesday night as a temporary shelter and will remain open until 9 p.m. for people without power who need to charge electronic devices or take shower.

• Groton Public Schools will be closed Thursday.

• The following roads remain closed due to fallen power lines or trees, or are impassable at these locations:

Front Street at Main Street

Just prior to Cheesbrough at Pearl Street

Spring Street at High Street

Morgan Point

Elm Street at Brook Street

Mystic, West Mystic

Lambtown at Quakerfarm Road

Whittle Street

Noank-Ledyard Road in the area of 197

348 Noank-Ledyard Road

Daniel Brown Road

24 Ann Avenue

24 Edgecomb

High Street (#475, one lane)

Watrous at Hillside

272 Haley Road

Pequot at Edgecomb

94 Hilltop Road

Quakertown Road in the area of 47

200 Colonel Ledyard Highway

High Street at New London (54 High Street)

Ashby by #17

Ashby at Noank Road

209 Cedar

132 Cedar

991 Groton Long Point Road, right after Palmer Cove Bridge; half of road eroded. Down to one lane.

Riverview Avenue

355 Brook Street

76 Library Street

4 Latham

Low wire at Groton Long Point Road by Fisherman

85 Gales Ferry Road

South Road underpass (flooded)