“It’s ridiculous,” he said.
His neighbor, Marilyn Andujar, said she had no way to plug in the medical devices she needed to care for her husband, Ramon Montero, who has throat cancer. One device lubricates his throat, making it possible for him to breathe; the other is a blender, which allows him to eat.
“He’s suffocating,” Ms. Andujar, 64, said from her doorway while Mr. Montero, 74, sat in the shade holding a handkerchief over the hole in his trachea. “This is not so good.”
Robin Murena, 44, of Bethel, a town next to Danbury, said she lost power last Tuesday. Because of the pandemic, she had been stocking up her refrigerator with vegetables from her garden, but everything spoiled.
Ms. Murena, who works at a cosmetic store at a mall, has used power outlets there to keep her devices charged.
Throughout the Danbury area, trees still littered roads, and some residents whose power had been restored left power strips in their driveways for others to use. Streetlights were out, making driving through intersections tricky.
Ms. Murena said that even during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, she only lost power for three or four days.
“I haven’t had to navigate a week without power,” she said.
On Monday, as the temperature rose, she set out to the waterfront at Sherwood Island State Park to keep cool.