More than 40,000 homes and businesses in Connecticut are still without electricity after a strong storm brought down trees and power lines, while the governor has called for an investigation of utility companies' response.
Most of the outages are in southwestern Connecticut, where damage is so widespread that Gov. M. Jodi Rell declared a state of emergency. Some schools remained closed Tuesday.
More than 85,000 customers lost power in Connecticut at the height of the three-day storm that hit Saturday.
Rell on Tuesday asked state utility regulators and emergency management officials to look into complaints that Connecticut Light & Power Co. and The United Illuminating Co. were slow to fix the outages.
Spokesmen for both companies say their crews responded aggressively.