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Strong winds brought down large trees and power lines throughout the town of Cheshire.
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Power outage (also called a power cut, a power blackout, power failure or a blackout) is a short-term or a long-term loss of the electric power to a particular area.
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Cheshire, Connecticut
| City | Cheshire |
| County | New Haven |
| State | Connecticut (CT) |
| Country | United States |
| Zip Codes | 06408, 06410, 06411 |
We cant shower, washdishes,or even go to the bathroom. This is a 55 and over community with many of us 70 or above.Maybe we should make Eversource wait as long to pay our bill.A better idea would be to deduct a daily rate times how many days we have to wait to get our power back.Eversource is totally unprepared.as usual