While outages are expected, crews are already staged around the state with many workers being brought in to help.

With consistently strong winds and heavy rain in the forecast Wednesday into Thursday, Eversource says it's prepared for any outages that come out of the storm. Part of their plan includes bringing in additional line-workers to assist with power restoration when safe to do so.

The size, scope and power of this week’s upcoming storm is giving many people flashbacks to the destructive wind and rainstorm that hit Maine last December. More than 400,000 people lost power. Almost exactly a year later,