Fairfield County cleans up after storm

WESTON, Conn. (WTNH) -- Wednesday was definitely the calm after the storm, but that didn't mean that crews weren't out on the roads doing storm clean up.

It's hard to believe that high winds and heavy rain could lead to a sunny day less than 24 hours later.

Crews kept busy on Wednesday, clearing downed trees and power lines on town roads.

"Weston was one of the harder hit towns in the state of Connecticut," said Officer Joe Miceli. "We had right around 20% of our residents out of power, which can obviously become problematic for a town with the infrastructures and system that we have here."

Many residents woke up without power and had to take more circuitous routes to work.

Farmingville Elementary School in Ridgefield was closed down thanks to the storm.

"It must have been a lightning strike, or a transformer that blew up due to a tree hitting the power lines," said Ridgefield Police Captain Tom Comstock. "When it blew up, the transformer, a power surge must have happened and it blew up the well pump, so there's no water at this school. So even if they get the electricity back on they still have to replace the water pump."

Crews were expected to work well into the night to fix that and other problems left behind by Tuesday's storm.

"We had numerous trees down, wires down, roads blocked. As the night went on the rain intensified and we started getting some minor flooding in the roads and it really stretched our resources thin," said Officer Miceli.