Utilities in Connecticut, Mass, RI, and NY were savaged by their customers after Irene in 2011. NYC had sustained practically no damage, but outer Long Island, Southeastern Connecticut, and Rhode Island took a lot of damage. We kept having to re-report that our power was out because there were so many breaks in the lines.
In the end (after another long outage from a freak Snow storm in October that brought down many branches with leaves still on them), Connecticut Light & Power sacked their leadership and went on an extensive effort to trim up the trees all around the lines.
Part of the Issue in Connecticut is the high exposure of power lines to trees. People often think of Connecticut as a large urban mass, but it actually has large exurban/rural tracts with small towns. the picture below shows the typical view I have driving to work, with trees covering the road and the power lines well below the tree tops.
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