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While eastern parts of the state are still receiving significant snowfalls Tuesday morning, most of the rest of Connecticut did not get as much snow as forecast. Malloy said road crews are working and he believes conditions will get back to normal by Wednesday. Most people cooperated with the travel ban placed on Connecticut roads Monday night, which made plowing easier.
“We only had 11 accidents on our highway system, and one minor injury. That’s spectacular and I’m very grateful to the people who have listened,” Malloy said in a televised press conference.
One plow hit a pole, causing 573 outages upstate Monday night, but other than that power outages have been sparse. CL&P has eight active outages and UI does not have any.
Metro-North and Amtrak are expected to make announcements on restoring train services later Tuesday.
“We are in discussions with them. As you know, they pulled all of the trains out of concern for the catenary system,” Malloy said. “I expect they will take a diesel up and down and inspect the system.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement Tuesday that Metro-North service would run on an hourly schedule when it resumes and that it would slowly roll out during the day. Malloy did not say when exactly service may resume in Connecticut.
“Expect them to open the system when they can safely run trains all the way to New Haven,” Malloy said.
Malloy will have a discussion with local leaders later Tuesday morning, and said that once the state roads and highways are cleared, the state can begin to send additional resources to the areas most impacted by snow.
Some towns such as Greenwich have not lifted their local travel bans, and Malloy said the highway travel ban would remain in effect to allow crews to work more efficiently and to respect the travel bans in harder hit Massachusetts.
“We don’t want 95 to become overloaded with trucks all the way from New Haven to the New York border because it just creates very large problems,” he said.
Malloy also asked residents to clear a three-foot area around fire hydrants to create greater access, to clear storm drains, and to make sure vents from heating and hot water systems in homes are clear.
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