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And moving on. In Norwalk, there is a police presence outside homes and businesses on Eli Avenue. Tom Krasowski is there with more following all of this and doing a great job, Tom, let us know what's going on. Well, good evening, Roxanne within the last 10 minutes, police and fire have left Ely Avenue that they have just finished the job. The word from Norwalk police is that a retaining wall collapsed and residents at the bottom of the large embankment had to be evacuated. Now, let's take a look and show you what it looked like. Just a couple hours ago, police said they removed two large dump trucks along with the help of fire crews, animal control and the building department. We saw police going door to door to residents living at the bottom of the embankment who we then saw packing up to evacuate. Police just swung by again to make sure that all is safe there. Most police and fire again currently have left the scene. The road in the meantime, here on Ely Avenue in Lexington has just reopened. It's not flooded but obviously the rain causing severe enough damage to wipe out. That retaining wall is creating a large muddy embankment and a safety risk for anybody living at the bottom of it where there were large construction vehicles that had to be removed. Now, we'll be around the region all night following the storm. Please send us videos of what it's like by you. I can say right now over here, Angelica said it's touch and go where she is at in this particular part of Norwalk, It's coming down consistently for the last two hours. And Steve said it doesn't appear to be done any time soon yet. So we'll be around the area again. Please send us your videos. Let us know what it's like by you. But for now in Norwalk, Tom Krasowski News 12, Connecticut. Tom. Exactly. That condition out there is very unsafe. Thank you for bringing us that update and alerting everyone in that area as to stay away from that area. Ok. So for up to the minute conditions where you are, it's easy. Go over to the News 12 app or news 12 dot com.

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Check on our roadways tonight news twelve's Tom Krasowski is out on with thunder bolt 12. Tom, you're in Bridgeport. How does it look out there? Hey there, Kurt. The rain has been coming down steady all night long. There's been no reprieve here in Bridgeport and now we'll take you inside thunderbolt, show you what's out here. So you don't have to be out on the roads. We'll show you what it's like right now. We are on North Bishop Avenue in Bridgeport. We're up ahead, the road is closed. Now, we're here specifically because Bridgeport, police told us they rescued people from several cars that were stuck in the water there, they had to go on board and take them out. There were no injuries. Now, the next block over to our right Bruce Avenue is also closed under the overpass. Those of course are danger zones. So keep in mind as always turn around, don't drown. Overpasses are particularly dangerous areas. The water continues to pile up. I know a little bit of a traffic jam here in Bridgeport, which is an encouraging sign if there's cars on the road, that means it's good to go. Typically speaking, at least now we'd be remiss if we were in Bridgeport and we didn't mention the impacts that the rain has had on sound on sound. The second annual Sound on Sound, the big music festival gates tomorrow delayed three hours due to all this rain gates will now open at 2 45. The first show is at three, parking opens at one and some of the set times have been adjusted. So for any fans of particular act, you're going to want to check that. And management also saying proper rain gear is key, especially footwear. We were there yesterday. It's a beautiful set up. Organizers said it's a big improvement over last year in a larger space, but it is still a grassy field. So make sure you bring your footwear, latest facts and figures from Steve tiling Sikorski Airport winds gusting up to 30 miles an hour total rainfall there over three inches of rain per Steve. That's nothing to sneeze at. And as for tomorrow, clouds in the morning showers ending by noon that is promising for the music festival. So again, as always, send us your videos, tell us where we should go next and thunderbolt, we'll be out here all night and a special. Thank you to Keith, my driver here keeping us safe on the roads and getting these visuals from thunderbolt. But for now Kurtz back to you, Tom Keith. Thank you both

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Meanwhile news twelve's Angelica Tao is in thunderbolt 12 checking on conditions in Norwalk, Angelica. Yeah, you know, it is a day very cloudy right now. Not so much rain, but throughout the day that we've been out on the roads, there has been, you know, that influx of rain coming in and out. Also those gusty winds, thunderbolt definitely felt it. We've been driving around trying to see what it looks like out like there out there and I'm going to show you right now we're in Norwalk right by. We were just at Vets Park, we saw a couple of ducks really enjoying this weather and uh enjoying that those little puddles. But over here, you know, there is that time of traffic, some cars on the road, but we just want you to be safe. So if you don't have to go outdoors right now, best to stay indoors, the flooding in certain areas are pretty bad and we'll be continuing to cover those and surveillance that but here we are at the stop sign light rain right now. But as I said, the rain does come and go and just check all those apps and alerts as we continue to update you guys and we will bring it back to you in the studio, but you can always check the news 12 app and online back to you.

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News 12 Connecticut's Tom Krosnowski was in Thunderbolt 12 checking out the road conditions in Stratford.

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What the great thing about coming in at 4 a.m. No traffic. No good, smooth sailing, smooth sailing. Yeah. And I guess still for right now. Not too bad. Yeah, it isn't too bad. We're still looking pretty good and the weather is not too bad. At least for the first half of today. Things do switch up later on, but the warmer temperatures are nice. Oh, yeah, we'll see that into the weekend as well. So we're looking forward to that fifties, uh, for a lot of us for today, you are gonna need those umbrellas for a little bit later on getting into your evening period and then, uh, for your tonight, we can expect things to kind of dry out. When I say tonight, we're looking closer to your maybe 89 o'clock hour. We're getting your future cast to time it out. But even still numbers don't fall off too much as we're seeing a lot of us into the forties for you tomorrow. Here's a look at later on this morning at about nine o'clock. We're in the forties. 41 for Birch Port, 44 for orange clouds fill in late parts of our morning. You can expect to see some showers getting into the afternoon, mainly for areas up north north of 84 1st. And then most of us will get engulfed into some rain. By the time we head into that commute home, 567 o'clock, by around your 89 o'clock hour, we're looking gonna dry out and we're looking good. Heading into your Saturday could see a little bit of some patchy fog for the early parts. Your Saturday. Keep that in mind if you do got some traveling to get done for the morning period, but we'll start to see some sunshine as it progressed into your afternoon. Still gonna battle a few clouds for your Saturday. But look at some of these numbers. You got 53 for Torrington, Thomaston, Watertown, 54 for Newtown, 52 for those out toward orange. So whatever plans you got going on for your Saturday, you are looking pretty good things change for your sub, looking dry, but a cloudy gray start for your Sunday morning. And then we see those showers start to work its way in right around the late morning and into the early parts of your afternoon where again, you will need the umbrella. We're talking heavier bouts of that rain, not the little stuff that we're gonna work with today. We really see things pick up. So just to put things into perspective, we're looking at about a quarter of an inch of rain for this first round for today. And then you're gonna tackle on another inch to an inch and a half by the time we head into your Sunday, where those are your total. So again, we're looking at a lot of rain to wrap up this weekend.

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Thunderbolt 12: Conditions in Bridgeport

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And we do have a crew out on the roads in thunderbolt 12 tracking conditions to keep you safe news. Twelve's Tom Krasowski joins us now with an update from Stratford. Tom. Hey there, Roxanne. Well, no worries. Thunderbolt is holding up plenty strong. We are here in Stratford right now just over from Bridgeport where we were before. It's been spotty, the weather conditions over the last hour or so, but it's coming down now about as hard as it probably has been for the last two hours. Let's check out those current conditions right now. We're on Barnum Avenue, one of the main roads in the area and we're here because river road along the Housatonic River is closed. That's where we thought we might be going but can't get in earlier tonight. We were in Bridgeport where police had to rescue people from cars stuck in flood water on North Bishop Avenue. See here just a little bit of puddles on the road, no major flooding and still plenty of traffic coming through before that. We were in Norwalk where a retaining wall collapsed over a large embankment that forced some residents to evacuate. We're headed towards Bridgeport. Now, thousands of you might be doing so tomorrow, the rain has delayed the start of the Sound on Sound Music Festival by three hours. We'll have more on that ahead. Some of the set times artists have been adjusted, so check that out. But the key that management emphasized, bring your rain boots and dress for the weather. Definitely going to want to bring your layers and raincoat on top of that too. Now, the latest facts and figures from Steve Tieling total rainfall for the Bridgeport Stratford region. Over three inches of rain reported at the airport, limited outages around the area mostly to our west. There's a couple 100 or so power outages in Greenwich when we last checked about 10 minutes ago, nothing too major. As for tomorrow, you heard it there from Steve. It sounds promising for the music festival. So we'll definitely take that. But right now here in Stratford, nothing that you haven't seen before here on the roads, it's not so bad, but obviously, if you can avoid it, I would suggest doing so. But for now, that's all for us in thunderbolts, by all means, keep sending in your videos and letting us know what the conditions are like by you. And a special. Thank you to Keith, my photographer and driver extraordinaire tonight, keeping us safe on the roads. But for now, Roxanne, we'll get back to you

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