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East Lyme — While residents enjoyed the seasonably warm and sunny day Tuesday morning, town officials were busy receiving real-time data about Hurricane Thompson, a simulated Category 3 storm approaching the shoreline.

Representatives of all East Lyme agencies gathered inside the state-of-the-art Emergency Operations Center, or EOC, in the new public safety building at 277 W. Main St. in Niantic for a multistate drill that began at 9 a.m. and concluded after three and a half hours…