08/30/11 Greenwich Received Over 6" Of Rainfall And Had More Than 25% Of Its Roads Blocked By Fallen Trees And Lost Power In 50% Of The Town

Greenwich is relatively well-off in comparison to other towns in the state, which lost entire homes to severe flooding and reported much higher power outage percentages.

As of Tuesday morning over 50 Connecticut communities were still reporting power outages of between 80 to 100 percent.

The Town of Greenwich has started to assemble cost estimates for damage from the storm so the state can begin requesting aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The FEMA process has historically been very bureaucratic.

Competition for the funding will be fierce, since FEMA currently has less than $800 million in its disaster coffers and we have extremist TEA Party lunatics like Eric Cantor who want to deny funds to towns like Greenwich

Hopefully Greenwich Jim Himes' office has said Connecticut will be eligible for FEMA funding once its damages exceed the $4.6 million threshold.

The Town Of Greenwich's costs will mainly come from labor, overtime, equipment and supply expenses.

The Greenwich Emergency Management Coordinator currently does not have an estimate for how much Sunday's storm has cost the town in terms of damage and overtime expenses.

There's been a lot of damage. The town's number could be rather big.

Greenwich town workers have been on the streets around-the-clock since Sunday, working to remove trees and debris from Stamford streets. About a quarter of Greenwich's streets had some kind of blockage or were impassable after Sunday's storm

Over 30 Greenwich streets were still blocked as of today.

The Town DPW and tree crews have worked well together throughout this storm

The police and fire and EMS, who have been communicating constantly with the Greenwich Emergency Management Office, reporting downed lines, downed trees.

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