Inclement weather brought down trees and wires across southeastern Connecticut, and caused at least one road accident, Saturday evening.

State police at Troop F reported several trees down, as well as wires, on the road along Route 156 near Mile Creek Road in Old Lyme. As of 5:30 p.m. Saturday, police said, Route 156 was impassable and couldn’t be used until the state Department of Transportation could clear trees from it.

There were several scattered power outages. As of about 5:50 p.m. in Old Lyme, 137, or about 2.5% of the 5,500 Eversource customers in town, lost electricity. There were 119 outages in Salem, about 5.94% of that town's 2,003 Eversource customers. In Stonington, 188 out of 11,122 customers, or 1.69%, lost power, while East Lyme saw 72 outages, or 0.69% of 10,361 customers.

Norwich Public Utilities Spokesman Chris Riley said at 7:15 p.m. Saturday NPU crews "restored power to all but 40 customers following this evening's storm, down from a peak of about 150 customers." He said NPU was aiming to have power restored to all customers by 11 p.m. Saturday.

"The remaining outages — at nine separate locations — involve more downed trees and limbs, and we're bringing in additional contractors to help with this work," he said.

In New London, two cars crashed into a fallen tree on Broad Street, near the Pizzarama restaurant, city police said.

Capt. Matthew Galante said the incident occurred shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday, during the start of the storm, as the tree was falling into the roadway. Both vehicles had minor damage and no one was injured.

It was the second storm in two days. The first brought heavy rain and strong winds to the region on Friday afternoon.

"Two days of basically tropical storm (strength) gusts," Gary Lessor, a meteorologist with the Weather Center at Western Connecticut State University, said Saturday night. A gust of 64 mph was reported in Groton on Friday, he said. There was a high of 1.13 inches of rain in the area, with half an inch falling between 2 and 3 p.m.

The highest wind gust during Saturday's thunderstorm was 44 mph at 4:41 p.m., he said, and the rainfall reached 0.14 inch.

Lessor said southeastern Connecticut avoided the worst of Saturday's storm.

“Today the storm had signatures of tornadoes, of severe weather. There was some indications in Branford and indications in Plainfield, and then there’s a bunch in Rhode Island,” he said about 6:30 p.m. Saturday. He noted it went on to rock Cape Cod. “This storm was extremely vigorous."

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