Morning thunder, rain cross Connecticut

Stormy weather rolled across Connecticut early Saturday morning, triggering a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for parts of three counties. The severe weather followed a violent Friday afternoon and night that included a tornado warning.

More than 4,400 customers of Connecticut Light & Power did not have electricity as of 7:00 a.m Saturday. United Illuminating reported fewer than 100 outages.

A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was posted early in the morning for Hartford, Tolland and Windham County, but expired at 6:45 a.m.

After Friday's storm passed, residents in Morris and other Connecticut communities surveyed the damage left behind from high winds and rain, including fallen trees and limbs.

"I saw this tree over by my active pick-up truck," Ted Merrill said. "I was watching it in slow-motion, twist around this other tree, just barely missed my pickup truck over there!"

In Morris Friday, the discussion of heat and humidity was replaced by talk of ask, maple, and oak trees, because pieces of them seem to be everywhere. Severe weather ripped through this small town and left a big impression.

"The hood was closed. I believe the latch might have been in the - triggered from the cab, but you still need to push this latch in order for the hood to open, the wind, opened the whole thing," Merrill said.

There has been talk of a funnel cloud here.

"Somehow that tree got sheared, and then carried about 14 feet over the fence. It was like an umbrella phenomena, where just grabbed the tree and threw it, which was good for us, we don't have to repair that part of the fence," Merrill said.

More than 30 percent of the town's population was without power at one point, but the story here is the trees.

And that's good news for Ted who can thank Mother Nature for providing a little extra work for a man who cuts down trees for a living.

"I guess its more firewood for me, I'll probably make some money around the neighborhood now," Merrill said.