[Updated, 9:45 a.m.] Enfield Outlines Plans For Continued Storm Coverage

Update, 9:45 a.m.

The Transfer Station will be open today for residents to dispose of any storm debris.

340 CL&P customers are reported to be without power.

Update, 5:45 a.m.

Three road closures in different areas of town have been reported by the Enfield Police Department related to Monday's storm.

Moody Road is closed by the Somers town line, Abbe Road is closed near Town Farm Road, and a portion of Depot Hill Road is closed. All are affected by trees that have fallen into wires, Sgt. Jim Lefebvre said.

The most recent CL&P outage map showed 338 Enfield customers were without power.

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Representatives of numerous public safety, health and utility agencies gathered Monday evening to discuss Enfield's plans to handle the possible consequences of Hurricane Sandy.

Dan Vindigni, director of emergency management, said the Emergency Operations Center opened Monday at 9:30 a.m., and will remain open for the duration of the storm.

North central Connecticut has been deemed a "moderate risk factor" for wind. "We're in the best of a bad situation right now statewide," Vindigni said.

The shelter at John F. Kennedy Middle School "is in standby mode tonight," and will remain open for water and battery charging until 8 p.m. It will re-open for those purposes at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

Following the directive of Gov. Dannel Malloy, Interstate 91 is legally closed in Connecticut, as is the portion of Route 190 from Phoenix Avenue to the Suffield Bridge.

I-91 remains open in Massachusetts, but Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said there was little diversionary traffic through Enfield's major arteries. "We had no problems on Route 5; a lot of people didn't go to work," Sferrazza said.

Traffic lights were out of operation on a two-mile stretch of Hazard Avenue (Route 190) due to a blown transformer near the Hazard Trade Mart late Monday afternoon. CL&P representative Tim McGrew said 882 customers were without power due to that incident. (Editor's note: by 6:45 p.m., that number had dropped to 56).

CL&P has had a crew staged in Enfield since midnight Monday, but for now they are to be utilized for 911 calls or life-threatening issues, McGrew said. The utility currently has a little over 1,000 linemen in the state, and is waiting for others to come in, he added.

In the event of a power outage, residents are asked to call CL&P customer service. "That creates an electronic path of the information coming in and it gets passed onto the operations center," McGrew said. The customer service number is 800-286-2000, currently a little over 1,000 linemen in the state, waiting for others to come in

Public Works Director Jonathan Bilmes said six crews will be working overnight tonight, including an extra electrician, extra people to work on generators, and crews ready to man the shelter. Portable stop signs are being put up on Hazard Avenue due to the power loss.

Trash and recycling pickup has been cancelled for Tuesday, with schedules being pushed back a day. Yard waste will be collected on Saturday, Bilmes said.

Enfield's Community Emergency Response Team has been activated, and is assigned to the Department of Social Services. Dial-a-Ride buses have been relocated to the town garage on Moody Road, in case of an emergency evacuation.