The locker rooms at Seymour Middle School at 211 Mountain Road will be available for showers from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, First Selectman Paul Roy said.
In addition, water is available for residents at Great Hill Hose Co. at 140 Botsford Road at an outdoor spigot. People need to bring their own containers. Click here for a map.
Power is expected to be fully restored to Seymour within two days, according to an e-mail sent Tuesday evening by Tom Eighmie, the town’s director of the officer of emergency management.
Some residents have been without electricity since Saturday night, when Hurricane Irene arrived.
As of 3:30 p.m., 4,734 CL&P customers in Seymour were without power. That is 63 percent of all CL&P customers in town. By 8:45 p.m., CL&P was reporting that 43 percent of Seymour was out, or 3,284 customers. At about 7 p.m., the town sent a Code Red message to all residents indicating that CL&P expected to restore a circuit that would repower Seymour High School, Bungay School, Seymour Middle School and the Great Hill firehouse, as well as homes around those areas.
Roy estimated there are at least four or five utility crews in town making repairs.
The outage is mostly in the Great Hill section of town, Roy said.
“Those are the folks that have wells, and that’s why we need to open up the school for showers,” Roy said.
Some parts of downtown Seymour have power, such as Auto Zone. Others do not, including the post office and Seymour Town Hall, where the phone lines are down as well.
People have been coming to Town Hall to ask questions about various issues. On Tuesday, a man who needed to recharge the batteries for his wife’s wheelchair came to Town Hall. Roy said town employees sent him to Smithfield Gardens, an assisted living facility at 26 Smith St.
The town’s ambulance crews and firefighters have been checking on residents who require oxygen tanks.
“Fortunately, the weather has been cooperating. It’s not too hot out — and it’s not the winter time,” the First Selectman said. “The residents have been great. They really have been patient and understanding.”
