Situation Report #27 Winter Storm 11-3-11 1600 Hrs

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State of ConnecticutSituation Report

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Dannel P. Malloy, Governor

Department of Emergency Ser

& Public Protection

Winter Storm October 29, 2011

Report Period: November 3, 2011 1100 November 3, 2011 1600 hrsSituation Report #27

For Storm Irene FEMA will continue to accept registrations or individual assistance until November 15, 2011.

State Emergency Operations Center Activation Level: Full Activation

On Saturday October 29, 2011 at 2:00 PM Governor Dannel Malloy activated the State Emergency Operations Center.

The State EOC is fully staffed with additional partners.

Summary

Statewide, power outages and debris removal continue to be the major problems. Local entities are opening

shelters and warming centers as needed and are engaged in providing other public services. Debris

Management, Commodities, Mass Care & Sheltering, Fuel and Communications Restoration Task Forces have

been established. A total of eight storm related fatalities have been reported.

At the request of Governor Malloy, the President has issued an emergency declaration FEMAA-3324-EM for the

State of Connecticut. This emergency declaration authorizes FEMA to provide emergency protective measures,

limited to direct federal assistance, at 75 percent federal funding. This assistance is for all eight counties in the State

of Connecticut.

The following notice is posted on the DEMHS Web Site Notification Page:

Notification for regular work hours on Thursday, November 3:

All state employees, including non-essential employees, are expected to report to work as scheduled unless their

worksite is closed and they have not been required to report to an alternate office. A list of state buildings that arecurrently closed can be found below. Non-essential employees may also contact their worksites directly to verify

their building status. In some cases, employees may be asked to report to alternate worksites due to agency

operating needs. Please contact your agency for that information.

Department of Transportation employees should call 860-594-3110 for updates on reporting to work.

For the most updated listing of Judicial Branch closures and information for jurors,please visit the Judicial Branch

website.

State Buildings Closed List as of 3:00 PM 11-03-2011

Executive Branch Locations

Buildings Closed

Capital Community College Hartford

Asnuntuck Community College Enfield

4 Pearson Way Enfield - DMV

Tunxis Community College Farmington

63 West Street Litchfield OCPD

Manchester Community College

Middlesex Community College, Middletown

One Grove Street New Britain DCF

Cedarcrest Hospital Campus Newington - Various

555 Russell Road Newington DCP/Division of Special Revenue
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2275 Silas Deane Highway Rocky Hill OCPD

Northwestern Community College Winsted

Judicial Branch Locations

Buildings Closed

287 Main Street East Hartford Judicial

165 Miller Street Meriden Judicial Probation Office533 South Broad Street Meriden Judicial

220 Main Street Extension Middletown - Juvenile

69 Brooklyn Street Rockville

20 Park Street Rockville

26 Park Street Rockville Judicial (Vernon Family Services)

25 School Street Rockville Judicial (Juvenile)

428 Hartford Turnpike Vernon

225 Spring Street Wethersfield Judicial

Department of Consumer Protection

An updated gas station list has been generated and forwarded to 211. DCP Food inspectors continue to deploy into

affected areas. Food Store losses are approx. 1.4 million as of 1200 today, this total is certain to rise.

Complaints of gasoline price gouging are lessening.

DCP Food inspectors continue to survey the areas affected by the power outages, losses at food stores so far are over

1.4 million dollars. An updated list of open gas stations has been forwarded to 211

Weather Report

Thursday: Mostly sunny in the morning, partly sunny in the afternoon. Low: 34. High: 57 inland, 56 shore.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, not as cold as recent nights. Low: 36-43.

Friday: Becoming mostly sunny, breezy, and cooler. High: 48-54.

Emergency Support Function (ESF) Reports

ESF 1 - Transportation

Department of Transportation

District 1 - 61 Trucks - securing @ 18:00. Radio room securing @ 18:00

District 1 - 64 Trucks - activating @ 06:00. Radio room activating @ 06:00.

District 2 - 7 - Trucks - securing @ 19:00. Radio room securing @ 16:00.

District 2 - 7 - Trucks - activating @ 06:00. Radio room activating @ 08:00.

District 3 - 59 Trucks - securing @ 18:00. Radio room securing @ 18:00.


District 4 - 132 Trucks - securing @ 18:00. Radio room securing @ 18:00.


Storm Room will secure today @ 18:00 and activate @ 06:00 on 11/4/11

Road Closure Update 11/3/11Dist. 1 - 3 opened - 0 still closed

Dist. 2 - None

Dist. 3 - None

Dist. 4 - 1 opened - 1 still closed

Rt 47 - Roxbury/Washington - DOT on site with CL&P

DOT continues to address numerous lane closures: both primary and secondary state roads.

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ESF 2 Communications

Public Safety Communications

Municipal situation reports continue to be monitored for public safety communication system issues. No outstanding

requests for assistance received as of time of this report. Several reports via SITREPs acted upon.

DESPP/CTS reporting 14 sites on backup generator power with two site on a deployable generator due to primary

generator failure or fuel delivery issues. 1 Troop remain on generator No Troops report 911 issues.

Public Communications

No significant problems or requests reported over night

AT&T reports continued progress with provision of backup power to remote facilities. Fueling at these locations

could be improved

Backhaul connectivity troubles continue to be identified and referred for repair/restoration.Continuous communications continue with commercial wireless carriers, wireline providers, and VoIP providers. #s

improve as power is restoredFueling of generators is a challenge among the EFS2 community. Site access due to downed power lines, poles, and

trees poses a challenging environment and the inability to use normal fuel delivery vehicles.

Site access has improved but wires in the roads continue to be a challengeAlthough the debris removal is improving it continues to be a challenge in the restoration of power.

Communications Task Force

Last Task Force Meeting: 11/3 3PM

Next Task Force Mtg: 11/4 10AM

General Update:

Wireless Summary: Progress continues to be made between yesterday and today on restoration of cell towers and

wireless coverage. 13% of sites statewide were down as of 11am today and providers report additional

improvements since then.

Cable/VOIP Summary: Restoration continuing to track with commercial power restoration. Most core networks are

in good-shape. Dropped lines are being repaired, however more dropped lines are likely to be discovered as power is

restored.

AT&T

Wireless - 77 down this afternoon (5%), (50 backhaul related). Sufficient generation capability in place. Generators

at all sites where power is the only issue.

Wireline - As of this morning, reported wire-line outages are up to 13,405. This number is expected to rise as power is

restored and people begin to check phones.

Verizon

Landline - minimal damage observed. Once power is restored the company will have a better gauge as to the impact.

Reporting normal (pre-storm) trouble reports.

Wireless - 2% of sites are Out of Service (OOS) mostly backhaul and 18% are on generator. Most of the OOS sites have

overlap from working towers. Have made calls to all municipalities.

Sprint 107 sites still out (12% of total towers). 68% power, 30% T1.T-Mobile Currently operating at 87% with some 94 sites down.

Cablevision - Making progress since yesterday, reports that 12K customers are out of service (down from 18K

yesterday PM). This represents about 5% of its customers in the state

Charter Continued progress, but slowing. Currently 36% of customers are out of service.

Comcast 11535 down drops at height, 1000 expected by end of day. Plant integrity at 91% overall. Over 260

generators have been deployed to the field.

Cox 350 generators deployed, 300 people in the field from across the company fixing drops. 2/3 of customer base

remains without power. 39,000 telephone without service at this time (40% customer base is operational).

MetroCast - Reports 100% operational. No change from last report.


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DAS BEST

DAS BEST continues to support the Governor's Office and EMHS in keeping the websites current and informative.

ESF 3 Public Works and Engineering

State and local entities continue to assess the status of their infrastructure, roads, and debris conditions and make

progress toward recovery.

ESF 4 Firefighting

Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection

Commission of Fire Prevention and Control

1) Continue to monitor local fire department activity and needs. No significant events

2) Worked with Legal/State Fire Marshal's Office regarding Governor's propane declaration.

3) Resolved Hartford County Radio problems

4)Statewide Fire Departments continue to respond to storm related emergencies and check welfare of residents

with extended power outages.

ESF5 Emergency Management

The following Task Forces have been established: Debris, Commodities, Fuel, Communication Restoration, Sheltering

and others as appropriate. FEMA Incident Management Team Staff are integrated into the State EOC.

EOCs OPEN (70 ) CERT Team Activations (25) Local State of Emergency Declarations

(22)

Andover -monitoring Bethel Ashford

Ashford Bolton Berlin

Avon Bristol Bolton

Bethany Coventry Durham

Bethel - partial East Haddam Enfield

Bloomfield East Hartford Farmington

Bolton Ellington Haddam

Bridgeport monitoring Enfield Hartford

Bristol Granby Manchester

Burlington Haddam Mansfield

Columbia- monitoring Hamden Meriden

Cornwall Hartford Morris

Coventry monitoring New Milford Naugatuck

Danbury Orange Plymouth

Darien partial Plainville Seymour

Durham Prospect Somers

East Granby Redding Sprague

East Haddam - partial Ridgefield Trumbull

East Hartford Southington Vernon

East Windsor Vernon Watertown

Eastford West Haven Weston

Easton monitoring Wilton Woodbury

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Enfield Wolcott

Glastonbury Woodbury

Goshen

Greenwich partial

Guilford-partial

Haddam

Hartford

Harwintonmonitoring

Hebron - monitoring

Kent

Killingly- monitoring

Lebanon- monitoring

Manchester

Mansfield- monitoring

Middlebury

Middletown

Monroe - monitoring

Morris - monitoring

Naugatuck

Newington

New Canaan

Newtown- partial

Norwalk monitoring

Orange - monitoring

Plainville open

Roxbury

Seymour

Sharon -monitoring

Shelton -partial

Simsbury - monitoring

Somers

South Windsor - partial

Stamford partial

Stratford - monitoring

Thomaston

Thompson - monitoring

Tolland

Vernon

Waterbury

Weston

Westport until 2000 hrs

Wethersfield - monitoring

Willington

Wilton partial

Windsor -

Windsor Locks

Windsted

FEMA

The FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer is on site with other members of FEMA Incident Management Assistance

Team (IMAT).


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DEMHS

Region 1 Regional Coordinator reports at 0700 hrs.

Region 2 Regional Coordinators reports at 0700 hrs.




ESF6 Mass Care, Housing and Human Services

Numerous municipalities have opened shelters. A Mass Care and Sheltering Task Force have been established.

Shelters (102)

Red Cross and Town operated

Warming Centers (47) MRC Activations (6)

Ashford (Regional) Newtown Andover Coventry (Regional)

Avon Norwalk Ashford Fairfield-Easton

Bantam New Canaan Bethany Middletown

Berlin New Milford Bethel Northeast Connecticut

Bethel Meriden Bethlehem Weston

Bethlehem Monroe Bloomfield Stratford-Trumbull

Bloomfield Newington Bolton

Bolton (Hebron) Newton Burlington

Bridgewater North Canaan Chaplin

Bristol Oxford Cheshire

Brookfield Portland Colchester

Burlington Plainville Columbia

Canton Plymouth Cornwall

Chaplin Pomfret (Regional) Coventry

Cheshire Putnam Darien

Clinton Redding East Haddam

Columbia Rocky Hill East HamptonCornwall Ridgefield East Hartford

Coventry (Regional) Roxbury East Haven

Cromwell Seymour Eastford

Danbury Sharon Easton

Durham Simsbury Griswold

East Granby Somers Greenwich

East Hampton (Portland) South Windsor Guilford

East Hartford Southbury Hartland

East Windsor Southington Haddam

Eastford (Regional) Suffield Hartford

Easton Thomaston Hebron

Enfield Thompson KillingworthFairfield Tolland Lyme

Farmington Torrington Monroe

Glastonbury Trumbull Montville

Goshen Union New Haven Fire School

Granby Vernon Plainville

Guilford Wallingford Plymouth

Hamden Waterbury- Relocating Prospect

Hartford Weston Putnam

Hartland


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Harwinton West Hartford Roxbury

Hebron Wethersfield Rocky Hill

Kent Willington Sharon

Killingly (Regional) Wilton Southbury

Killingworth (if needed) Windsor Stamford

Litchfield Windsor Locks Sterling

Manchester Winsted Thomaston

Mansfield (Regional) Wolcott Union

Middlebury Woodstock (Regional) Voluntown

Middletown Woodbury Watertown

Morris

Naugatuck

New Britain

New Fairfield

Newington

Newtown

Commodities Task Force71 deliveries of food and water have been made to Towns by the CT Army National Guard. Further deliveries will be

made on 11/3/11. The task force is also managing donations and collaborating with appropriate agencies for

approval for distribution.

American Red Cross-ARC

SIGNIFICANT HAPPENINGS

Continued Sheltering

Re-evaluating sheltering needs and resources

Continue feeding

Expanded Feeding operation

Facilitated the movement of cots throughout the state

Remaining ERVs arrived

Staffing of the State EOC

Call to all 169 towns regarding potential residential damage

Developing more concrete numbers on Disaster Assessment

Continue in processing of remaining visiting staff and auditing of DROMIS

Reconciliation of vehicles

Partnership with State Behavior Health utilized for Shelter support

Numerous media interviews with several radio interviews scheduled

Continue media releases

Asked media to issue a call for Red Cross volunteers to report to Area offices

Issue informational and preparedness messages on Facebook and Twitter, updates as needed

Coordinate Governors visit to Red Cross ShelterCONCERNS

Many local volunteers continue to be unreachable due to power outages or inaccessible local roads

ESF7 Resource Support

Debris Management Task Force

Debris removal work ongoing at Hartford, W. Hartford, Simsbury, and Rocky Hill Veterans Home and Hospital.

Municipalities actively coordinating with Connecticut Army National Guard, and the State contractors for debris

removal (AshBritt) and monitoring (SAIC/BDR) for debris removal services.


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Details Information

CTNG:

Route Clearance efforts will be focused on the following municipalities: West Hartford, Farmington, Avon, Simsbury.

AshBritt and SAIC/BDR:

Hartford - 2 grapple trucks working on debris removal

West Hartford 4 trucks working on debris removal

Simsbury Sprint Cell Phone tower: AshBritt plan to send a bobcat and a chainsaw crew to the site today.Ralph Natale of SAIC/BDR informed for monitoring, certifying purposes.

Rocky Hill Veterans Home and Hospital: We are on site discussing our plan with Mr. Peter Negrini, the local POC, and

identifying an on-site debris collection point. We plan to have equipment (bobcat and chainsaw crew) there

tomorrow and will supplement this with a bucket truck and self-loader on Saturday, at which time a full-force debris

effort commences. SAIC/BDR will have a rep onsite tomorrow as the equipment arrives

West Hartford: SAIC/BDR addressed a FEMA compliance issue.

Canton: DEEP contacted Canton to inform the town that CTNG is not performing debris collection missions at this

time. We offered to put the town in touch with AshBritt.

Fuel Task Force

No significant lines at gas stations. Good Public perception of supply.

DOT Requests None Today

Generators

Requested: 42

Filled: 16

Cancelled : 10

Being Assessed by the USACE: 16

ARF Being Prepared: 12

Gas Station Status

1,215 Fuel Stations in Operation

222 Fuel Stations out of Operation

57 Fuel Stations with Unknown OperationSome gas stations with generators can only transact cash sales.

ESF8 Public Health and Medical Services

DPH is activating the ESAR VHP in order to provide weekend staff to Johnson Memorial Hospital for storm support.

Hospital Emergency Operation Centers: (Updated)

4 Hospitals indicate that their Emergency Operations centers either partially or fully operating:

Bristol Hospital

Danbury HospitalSaint Francis Hospital

Waterbury Hospital

Hospital for Special Care in New Britain is on generator power with 110 ventilator-dependent patients. They

have received a fuel delivery today. CL&P has assigned priority power restoration to this facility and expect power to

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Shelters: (Updated)

FEMA has released over 6000 blankets that are presently being distributed to 35 active shelters statewide by the

national guard.

Carbon Monoxide Incidents: (Updated)

People continue to present to emergency departments due to carbon monoxide exposure, often the result of unsafe

cooking and heating practices. DPH continues to work to improve public awareness of this issue and to monitor

number of patients presenting to emergency departments with carbon monoxide exposure on a daily basis.Presently we have received reports from our acute care facilities relaying an estimated total of276 patients seen at

their EDs for carbon monoxide exposure during this event.

Day Care Programs: (Unchanged from last Sit Rep)

To date, 14 child day care programs have contacted the Department to report that they had closed due to loss of

power (based on news reports we know there are many more impacted). 4 are family day care homes and 10 are

child day care centers/group day care homes. 3 have since reopened due to the restoration of power. Additionally,

four complaints have been received of programs operating without power which are being immediately followed up

with visits to the programs to ensure the health and safety of the children and staff are maintained.

Facilities: (Updated)

Connecticut Valley Hospital continues to operate on generator power.

Middlesex Hospital reports that their cancer treatment center had power restored at 18:30 yesterday. They have

begun treating patients this morning and working to reduce backlog of patients that have missed treatment over the

past several days.

In response to Storm Alfred and the issues with overcrowding in the Emergency Departments of hospitals, Nursing

homes have been provided the opportunity to surge their licensed bed census by 10%. A waiver consent agreement

has been drafted and signed by the following nursing homes to date:

1. Woodlake of Tolland

2. West Hartford Health and Rehab

3. Waters Edge4. Belair Manor

5. Pines at Bristol

6. Amberwoods of Farmington

7. St Mary Home

8. Cherry Brook

9. Aaron Manor

There are currently 34 nursing homes and 11 residential care homes (RCH) on generator. No nursing homes are

reporting issues with access to fuel. One RCH continues to experience problems with outside communication.

Boil Advisory Notices Still in Effect (Updated)Currently, 95 small public drinking water systems in the state are under a boil water advisory. The list can found on

the DPH website.

Department of Mental Health and Addiction ServicesDMHAS

The State Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services continue to have the following facilities without

power:

Connecticut Valley Hospital Water Treatment Plant in Middletown (On Back-Up Generators) Power was recently

restored on the main campus

Western Connecticut Mental Health Network (WCMHN) in Waterbury (192 Grandview Ave., Building A)


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Intercommunity Mental Health Center, 281 Main St. East Hartford (No Power)

Family Center, Inc. 60 Palmer's Hill Road, Stamford (No Power)

Community Health Resources, 995 Day Hill Road Windsor, 153 Hazard Avenue, Enfield, 1077 Enfield Street Enfield,

693 Bloomfield Avenue, Bloomfield (No Power)

Connecticut Counseling Centers, 4 Midland Rd., Waterbury (No Power)

Trinity Glenn, 149 West Cornwall Road, Sharon (On Back-Up Generators)

Robinson House, 96-98 South Quaker Lane, West Hartford (No power)

River Valley Services in Middletown, Capital Region Mental Health Center in Hartford & WCMHN are each requesting

100 meals for clients who are in the community, without power, and are unable or unwilling to go to a shelter for a

total of 300 meals. Contact has been made by telephone with the SEOC and 300 MREs with 300 H2O to be delivered

today.

The Red Cross has requested DMHAS assistance for behavioral support at sites statewide. We have deployed 12

employees to 7 locations statewide on Wednesday and another 15 staff are going out to 8 locations today.

ESF11 Agriculture and Natural Resources

Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

Four Oil Spills with PCB's >50 PPB of PCB's have been reported.

Two were remediated yesterday, and two are being remediated today.

Of the 87 sewage treatment plants, 10 are still on emergency power.

Department of Agriculture

1) Trinity Farms, Olive Road in Enfield still does not have power. They are looking for a generator. They have three

phase motors that require 300 amps to run. Charles Jones with Yankee Gas is working to try and restore power to

this facility.2) Guida Dairy in New Britain is up and running as of 0800 hours this morning. They are receiving milk and will be

processing it this afternoon and shipping as early as this evening.

ESF12 Energy

United Illuminating

Released from EOC since a vast majority of their customers have electrical service.

CL&P

Customer Outage Information:

Customers without power: 416,819

% of total customers: 33%

Over 520,000 customers restored.

The highest restoration priorities from the State EOC are: Waste Water Treatment Plants - Winchester, Cheshire,Suffield, Windsor Locks; The New Britain Hospital for Special Care; and the Conard High School Shelter.

Department of Consumer ProtectionDCPComplaints of gasoline price gouging are lessening.

DCP Food inspectors continue to survey the areas affected by the power outages, losses at food stores so far are

over 1.4 million dollars. An updated list of open gas stations has been received and forwarded to 211

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ESF13 Public Safety and Security

Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection

Winter Storm

Connecticut State Police Statewide Activity:

11/03/11, at 0001 hours, to 11/03/11, at 1500 hours.Calls for Service: 1054

Accidents: 35

Accidents with Injuries: 04

Fatalities: 00

Motorist Assists: 39

Non-Reportables: 729

Major highways are experiencing dry travel lanes and are able to facilitate normal traffic flow.

Major Highway Corridors:

No major problems

Secondary State Roadways:

Numerous statewide closures due to down trees and power lines especially in the northwest sections of the state.

Weather Related Activity:

Many trees and power lines remain down resulting in continued road closures throughout the state.

Significant Active Incidents:

Forensic Lab and Troop C and are operating on generator power. Recent information provided by CL&P

representitives expect power to be restored to both Troop C and the Forensic Lab by 11/04/11

Phone Issues: None at this time

Running Event Totals:

10/29/11, at 0001 hours, through 11/03/11, at 1045 hours

Calls for Service: 10402

Accidents: 782

Accidents with Injuries: 92Fatalities: 02

Motorist Assists: 929

Non-Reportable: 7817

Department of Corrections

Osborn phones and faxes have been repaired and now Osborn is fully operational.

MWCI still on generator power.

No staffing issues.

Connecticut Military

On Going Missions*Portable lighting unit support for Suffield.

*Generator support at Avon

*Additional Security for Governor's press conferences at SEOC

*Generator support at Willington Rest Area of I-84

Generator support at Somers PD

Generator support 1 x at Tolland

Generator support 1 x for Berlin

Debris Removal - Middlebury, Southbury, Woodbury, Betham and Seymor in support of CL&P

Commodities Distribution Support - Renschler Field - Completed 76 of the 78 towns requested.


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In Coming Missions

Generator support at Stafford- Transfer Station - none available

*Distribute 500 FEMA cots to CL&P

*Distribution of Commodities Avon - requesting Horse Guard. Evaluating

*Generator support at Glastonbury - community center - 30 Kw Renewal of original request - none available

Recently Terminated

*Generator support at Woodbury - returning as mission complete

*Generator support - Kensington Fish Hatchery - returning as mission complete

Generator support at Glastonbury - community center - 10 Kw rejected by town as too small

Generator support at Norfolk

Generator support 1 x for Berlin

Generator support at Litchfield - repeater tower

Generator support at Washington - Fire Station

Generator support at Waterbury - Animal Shelter

Generator at Tolland Fire Center

*new

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Misc. Support Functions

Info Line (2-1-1)

2-1-1 answered 1004 calls by 4pm. 292 calls were related to the October snow storm. Callers continue to look for

shelter and information on utility restoration.

Connecticut Insurance Department

Emergency Adjuster Licenses

Have issued 5,925 emergency adjuster licenses, most of which were issued for Storm Irene claims but Insurance

Department has extended those licenses for an additional 90-day period. Department continues to process more

requests daily.

Outreach to Consumers and Industry:

Posted location of Travelers Mobile Claims Van on Departments Winter Storm Resource site and also shared

information with public through media, Facebook, Twitter and 2-1-1.

Location: Bloomfield at Lowes Home Improvement Store on Cottage Grove Road

Will update public with more claims vans location as we get them from the industry

Issued 3 bulletins to the industry that addressed:

Promptness of service and payment

Extending grace periods for premium payments

Making sure policyholders have unobstructed access to medical care, including prescription drugs, should they nothave their insurance information with them because they are displaced or without it for other reasons as a result of

the storm

Department of Labor

The DOL website will be updated with changing conditions.

End of report. Next update to be issued 11/3/11 at 2000 hrs

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