FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 bus drivers did all they could to pick up children on roads still blocked by downed trees and power lines Tuesday, Superintendent Tom Ward said.

Sections of several roads were closed in the 10-town district, after a powerful wind storm hit the area Sunday night into Monday.

“We did everything we could” to pick them up, Ward said. Bus drivers would go down one end of the road as far as they could and then come in from the other side.

Some families walked their children to the end of the road or to another bus stop or drove them to school, Transportation Specialist Richard Joseph said. 

Among the roads with trees or wires across them Tuesday morning were Voter Hill, Morrison Hill, Bailey Hill and Davis Road, the Wilton end of Temple Road and Chesterville Hill Road in Chesterville.

In one case, a bus driver drove a route and on a return trip a tree had fallen across Egypt Pond Road in Chesterville closing a section of it, he said.

Joseph said he did not think many students didn’t make it to school.

“I don’t think we missed a lot,” he said.

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A tree blocks Bailey Hill Road in Farmington on Tuesday morning. Regional School Unit 9 bus drivers were met with several blocked roads after a powerful wind storm blew across the state Sunday night into Monday. (Richard Joseph photo)