Thousands of people may people may be trapped in their homes because they didn’t heed the state’s evacuation warnings before Monday’s storm surge hit “and our worst fears were being reached,“ Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said in a hastily called press conference Monday night around 9:15.
Malloy had urged municipal officials from Saybrook and west of New Haven to evacuate residents as if the storm was a Category 4 storm.
