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PHOTOS: 'Snowtober' a Little Spooky

Power Outages Reported as Snowstorm Upstages Halloween Revelries

The plows were out in Ledyard Center Saturday afternoon, and it looked like December or January, except for all the campaign lawn signs, obscured as they were by the earliest snowstorm in recent memory

Needless to say, it is very early for snow.

CL&P spokesman Mitch Gross said 320,000 Connecticut customers are without power, including 1,200 from Gales Ferry, where residents from Christy Hill Road to Lincoln Drive and including much of Birdland have reported outages.

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"And your part of the state is the really unaffected part," Gross said. He referred to the CL&P outage map, where some towns in the state are already more than 80 percent in the dark.

Patch reader Michelle Lake reported that power was restored to the Christy Hill/Crestview/Norman Drive area before 9 p.m. At 11 p.m. the outage showed some 700 customers without power.

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The Wicked Good Time Haunted Trail fund-raiser was canceled for Saturday. If you know of other cancellations, please post them below, e-mail or post an announcement.

More snow is forecast through Saturday night and Sunday morning before the sun appears later Sunday and melts it all away in time for trick-or-treat.

For now, however, the roads are very slippery. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed an order, effective immediately, banning non-emergency vehicles on the Wilbur Cross and Merritt Parkways due to dangerous driving conditions.

A good night to put on some warm socks, make some hot chocolate and order up a good movie. Or watch Zombies.

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