<START> Updates on Service Restoration in Long Island and Connecticut ONE-TWO PUNCH A tree fell on a house in Melville, N.Y., during Wednesday's storm. Government officials and local utilities still lacked firm statistics on how many homes had simply washed away or been damaged beyond repair during the hurricane. "We don't have a good number on that," Vanessa Baird-Streeter, a spokeswoman for the Suffolk County executive's office, said Friday. According to the Long Island Power Authority's Web site, the number of homes on Long Island lacking power dropped to about 130,000 on Friday from more than 200,000 on Thursday. Some of them lack power because the utility had initially said that they would have to undergo inspections first. The Suffolk County executive, Steve Bellone, has pushed for alternatives to such inspections, like having customers shut off circuit breakers to equipment they suspect has been flooded. The authority's original plan would have left people in the dark until December, he said. Long Island Rail Road trains will maintain regular weekend schedules on Saturday and Sunday on all branches other than the Long Beach branch, where the railroad was hit hardest by the storm. Long Beach commuters may be shunted to buses for a while. "The prognosis there is not immediate" said Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He said it was unclear whether the system would be able to resume regular weekday service on Monday. Weekday schedules are more taxing on the system than weekend ones, and two of the four East River tunnels that the railroad usually uses are still out of use. "We are done, done, done with storms stuff," said Mitch Gross, a spokesman for Connecticut Light and Power, the utility that provides power to 149 of the state's 169 municipalities. About 400 homes, many in Old Lyme, Greenwich and Westport, were excluded from the upbeat reports and have not reconnected to the power grid because of lingering safety concerns. Metro-North train service to Connecticut is back to normal except on the New Canaan branch, where damage was "fairly extensive," according to Mr. Donovan.