Officials: Most Should Have Power By Friday [Video]

At a 6 p.m. briefing at the emergency shelter at Coginchaug High School, town officials from Durham and Middlefield provided an update on Connecticut Light and Power's efforts to restore power to hundreds of customers still in the dark following last weekend's storm.

Middlefield first selectman Job Brayshaw said there were about 20 CL&P crews still in the two towns working to restore power.

Durham first selectman said significant progress had been made Thursday.

"We still have pretty good reason to believe that most of the people in both Durham and Middlefield will be on by tomorrow night," Francis said.

About two dozen residents remained at the shelter, a significant decrease from just 24 hours earlier when the cafeteria at the school was nearly full.

As of 9 p.m. Thursday, 286 (9%) customers in Durham were still without power, while in Middlefield 495 customers (23%) were waiting for the lights to come back on.

By comparison, in Avon, 7,587 (87%) customers were still in the dark Thursday night and in Farmington 11,580 (95%) customers still did not have power.

The emergency shelter at Coginchaug remains open, and officials will make a decision tomorrow on whether or not to keep it open this weekend.

Schools are open Friday.