Ozgirl > wrote:


: "W. Baker" > wrote in message
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: >

: > Thanks- what URL did you use to get the intol I seem to keep
: > floudering
: > looking for info for Margaretville(not the floood) but where are roads
: > now, power, etc?

: And of course the complaints start :

: "http://www.wfsb.com/story/15386210/clp-lights-up-woodstock-fair-while-half-of-town-out-of-power

: While more than half of Woodstock sits in the dark, the 151st annual
: Woodstock Fair kicked off Friday with the lights on.

: And now some people in town are critical that Connecticut Light & Power
: restored power to the fair before theirs.

: While most of the spinning rides at the fair operate on an independent
: generator system, the concessions and other venues take power from CL &
: P's grid. The fairs sits at the center of town on Route 44 and on the
: main artery for CL&P.

: Still, the timing couldn't be worse.

: "The fair is a good thing for Woodstock. I can see the resentment you
: know. But I'm not going to get upset about it," said Bill Duke of
: Woodstock.

: Allan Walker Jr. ,Woodstock's First Selectman, said the fair is an
: economic engine for the town, generating $4 million a year.

: "We want everybody in the town, individuals, companies to have power.
: There was no preference to the Fair," Walker said."

Probably Woodstock has less flooding than our area so got less of the
heavy Fema(Federal EmergencyManagement Agency) attention and State
emergency services, shelters, food deliveries, etc. Stores are tryng to
open ASAP and some, including a small markey in Fleischmanns is openas wel
as a big hardware adn lumber stor that was , once again, right in the
flood path. The physical efforts are tremendous with State workers adn
local voluteers really doing yeoman work. Bridges are down all over the
place adn will take some time to replace or repair as will many roads
which have been reduced to either rubble or great clock of cement. I
woudl imagie that many of the Maccadam roads witll be dirt ones again for
a while.

Wendy