(UPDATE) Fall Storm Aftermath

Updated, 4 p.m. Oct. 30:

The town Community Center is now open if you need a place to stay, get warm, get a bite to eat some hot coffee or recharge your electrical devices.

People can call the senior and social services line at 860-693-5811 for more information. 

Wifi is also working in portions of the building. 

Several town employees and officials have been at the center Sunday and some 150 people had been through the doors. As of 5 p.m. about 109 people were at the center. Officials have set up numerous cots upstairs. 

Selectman Bruce Lockwood said people are welcome to stay but should also know they can come during the day to stay warm, get a bite to eat, some coffee and charge electrical devices.

He also urges people to be careful in getting there, however, especially with wires down all over town. Despite power outages you never know, he said. 

"Assume every power line is energized," he said.

Meanwhile crews and residents continue to monumental task of cleaning up. Trees, branches and wires are down all over town and CL&P officials say power could be out as long as a week in some parts of the state.

Jim DeCesare lives on the corner of Atwater Road and Thayer Avenue. His yard was filled with multiple downed trees and one branch smashed through the window Saturday. 

"It sounded like our house was being bombed," he said. 

DeCesare said he had packed up his wife and infant child and they had left the house about 20 minutes before the limb hit the house. He stayed a little while extra since there was a fire going but did not sleep there. 

The house appeared to escape structural damage and was one of several hit by trees Saturday. Public Works Crews, police and members of the Canton Volunteer Fire and EMS Department also stayed busy with downed limbs and wires and numerous roads were closed Saturday. 

Sunday morning the focus was on getting roads open, especially larger town roads.

"Right now our focus is trying to get the roads open as soon as possible," First Selectman Richard Barlow said Sunday morning.

Most stores remained closed by mid afternoon. Larsen Ace Hardware was open early, however, with personnel in at 8 a.m. and open by 9 a.m. About 100 generators were on order but there was no estimated time of arrival.

About 64 percent of CL&P customers, or 798,445 of 1,237,830 were without power shortly at 4 p.m. 100 percent of Canton's 4,930 were also without power and CL&P said it could be as long as a week in some parts of the state.

Barlow said crews spent much of Sunday working on tree limbs and assessing damage.