September 30, 1985

Two electric power companies serving Connecticut and Long Island - the areas of the New York region hit hardest by Hurricane Gloria - said yesterday that they had no insurance to cover the damage inflicted by the storm. One of the utilities said it would probably seek a rate increase to cover part of the costs. ''We do not have insurance for the type of activity that took place,'' said Emmanuel Forde, a spokesman for Northeast Utilities, which supplies electricity to about one million customers in Connecticut. ''We had been insured by Lloyd's, but that coverage was discontinued as of July 1.'' A spokesman for the Long Island Lighting Company, Carol Clawson, said the utility, serving more than one million homes and businesses in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, was also not insured against hurricane damage. She said that Lilco has a ''storm restoration fund'' but that it was ''in a negative cash-flow position from prior storms.''

The emotions of the Mets during their game with Pittsburgh today went up and down more often than an elevator. They had the game won, then they weren't certain, then they thought they had lost it, then they had it won again but couldn't be too sure of that either until they were lodged safely in their clubhouse. As they got out of their uniforms, perhaps undressing quickly before someone could come in and tell them the Pirates were going to get another chance, they knew precisely where they stood in the division race that has been reduced to the final week of the season: They were three games behind first-place St. Louis and they were heading there to play the Cardinals three times. The Mets reached that juncture in the hectic National League East scramble by outlasting the Pirates today, 9-7, scoring the decisive runs on Gary Carter's two-run home run against Larry McWilliams in the 10th inning. Howard Johnson had led off the ninth inning with a game-tying home run against Cecilio Guante after the Pirates rallied for three eighth-inning runs against Roger McDowell for a 7-6 lead.

Companies Richardson-Vicks was barred from issuing new preferred stock designed to ward off a takeover attempt by Unilever, at least until the case can go to trial. Vicks said it may appeal the preliminary injunction issued by a Federal District Court judge. [Page D1.]

As police officers with heavy plastic shields and other riot gear dealt with a second night of violence in the mostly black district of Brixton this evening, clusters of young whites milled among crowds of young blacks in a spirit of common hostility to the authorities. Although the rioting is viewed in the rest of Britain as a racial confrontation, people on the scene today indicated that there might have been other causes. 'People Against the Police' ''The blacks are all right,'' said a young white with the name of the punk rock star Sid Vicious tatooed on his shoulder, a flaring crest of spiky hair and a necklace fashioned from a chain and padlock. ''We were with them last night,'' he said. ''It's not a black-white thing. It's the people against the police.''

Tony Lizzul was a little shocked by what he found in the backyard of his beach house when he returned here today. The roof of the oceanfront house next door rested upside down in a clump of prized juniper trees by his pool. ''Calvin's roof flew across my pool and crashed into the corner of the house,'' said Mr. Lizzul, surveying the tattered cedar roof and beams belonging to the home of his neighbor, the designer Calvin Klein. The two-story, glass-fronted home of Mr. Klein - reduced to three sides so that it resembled a theatrical stage, with a television and a couple of terra cotta pots in the living room incongruous props - was one of four homes severely damaged Friday by Hurricane Gloria.