Important Takeaways:

• Connecticut is starting to dry out Tuesday after devastating flooding killed two people over the weekend and another round of storms passed through the state on Monday.
• Flash flooding has washed out roads and bridges and left several routes unpassable.
• The rainfall that ravaged western Connecticut hit the thousand-year level in some parts, according to Brenda Bergeron, the deputy commissioner of the state Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. Areas also saw floods at the 25-year and 100-year level, meaning that, according to historical data, the probability of the rainfall reaching this level is once in 25, to 100 to 1,000 years.

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