Connecticut’s Declared Natural Disasters

JOHN LONG / HARTFORD COURANT

Water from the dam on Eagleville Rd. was flowing over the road and making this bridge unpassable due to extensive flooding along the Willimantic River. Spectators watch from the railroad bridge.

RICHARD DREW, AP

John Talbott, left, and Chris Jackson of Chatanooga, Tenn., navigate the snow on cross-country skis in New York's Times Square Jan. 8, 1996. A heavy blizzard the previous day struck most of the East Coast from the Carolinas north.

BOB MACDONNELL, HARTFORD COURANT

Vehicles sit partially submerged in the driveways of homes along Ocean Avenue in Niantic. Waves driven by the large nor'easter affecting the east coast coupled with high tides crashed water over the seawall along adjacent Atlantic Street flooding both roads.

STEPHEN DUNN / HARTFORD COURANT

Pat Cassells of Willington looks at her 42' Island Trader ketch that washed up on the rocks in Stonington during Hurricane Bob Monday. Cassells and her husband Robert were taking personal items and electronics off the boat when she paused to reflect on how much she would miss it. The boat sustained considerable damage to the hull and keel and will likely be beyond repair.

STEPHEN DUNN, HARTFORD COURANT

Every day, Colleen O'Neil and her dog, Wiley, walk over to the Yankee Boat Yard for a play date with the boatyard dog, Duchess, left, with a backdrop of boats waiting out the winter under shrink-wrapped plastic. Temperatures should reach 50 degrees over the weekend with some rain on Sunday which will melt the snow pack surrounding the boats and perhaps bring thoughts of summer cruising on the Conn. River.

John Woike, Hartford Courant

Brothers Mike and Everett Williston check the damage to a friend's cottage on Field Street on Bay View Beach in Milford after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the state.

TOM BROWN, SPECIAL TO THE COURANT

Charlie Johnson created about 25 rock sculptures in front of his home in Chester after the flood of 1982 washed the rocks onto his property.

SHANA SURECK-MEI, HARTFORD COURANT

Employees of PM Services, a waste reduction company in Plainville, are taken to the office by payloader after the Farmington Canals overflowed due to Floyd, flooding their facility. They spent the morning getting all but two of their trucks out of the water and cleaning out their office.

Stephen Dunn / Hartford Courant

Huge waves slam into waterfront homes in Westbrook. The wind intensity kept up long after the rain disappeared.

HARTFORD COURANT

Cathedral Pines in Cornwall after a tornado swept through the forest in July of 1989.

JOHN LONG / HARTFORD COURANT

Aircraft from the Bradley Air Museum lie scatted in pieces in Windsor Locks hours after a tornado passed through. The planes, which were destroyed or severely damaged, belonged to one of the largest airplane collections in the world.

Courant File Photo

CAPTION: A Hartford policeman helps a motorist dig out of the snow on Walnut street in Hartford.

RICHARD MEI / HARTFORD COURANT

Waves pound a seaside house in the Pine Orchard section of Branford as Hurricane Gloria lashes the Connecticut Coast.

ARMAN G. HATSIAN / HARTFORD COURANT

A National Guard trooper stands on Main Steet in Winsted following he great hurricane spawned flood of 1955 that devastated much of Connecticut. Martial law was declared in a number of Connecticut towns.

STEVE SILK / HARTFORD COURANT

A street sign along River Road in Cromwell lives up to its name.

STEPHEN DUNN, HARTFORD COURANT

Heavy snow fell on the Halloween decorations on Main Street in Manchester during a fall snowstorm that may left the state covered in snow and damage.