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RI News
6:06 am
Tue February 12, 2013

Power coming back, storm gets ranked

Credit Don Wineberg
Power poles down at Mackerel Cove
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(Update)  As of 8 this morning National Grid reports the number of customers without power is down to 2100.  95 percent of those are in Washington County.

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National Grid is working to restore electricity to 2700 customers in Rhode Island.  2600 of those are in South Kingstown and the other communities of Washington County.  On its website National Grid reports it hopes to have power back on to all customers by noon today.

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RI News
3:19 pm
Sat February 9, 2013

Rain expected to wash away much of snow

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Credit Aaron Read / RIPR
Central Avenue in East Providence on Monday
Credit Lydia Rogers
The Monday after in Providence
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East Providence
Credit Catherine Welch
Vets Parkway
Credit Bradley Campbell
Snowmobile on Benefit Street
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Eastside Marketplace parking lot
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Ambulance travels down a N. Providence street
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Officials urge caution while clearing walks
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Plowing the streets in N. Providence
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A Providence street plowed by covered with snow
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People are digging out from the storm
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Providence Mayor Angel Taveras talks with a resident about plowing streets
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Laden tree, College Hill
Credit Elisabeth Harrison / RIPR
Digging out on Federal Hill
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Snow plow clearing roads on Federal Hill
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Shoveling the snow in Providence
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Snow drifts taller than three feet cover bikes parked at RISD
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Getting aroudn on skis in downtown Providence
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More than two feet of snow fell on RI
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Providence firefighters digging out
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Waterplace Park Saturday morning
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Line of National Grid trucks in Providence Saturday morning
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Edgewood neighborhood of Cranston
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Snowball on East Street
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Federal Hill, blanketed in snow
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Storm, seen from space (Feb. 8, 2013)
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Lone skaters downtown Providence
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Bread stocks low at local Target
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Snowy First Baptist in Providence
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Capitol dusted in snow
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Cars lining up at Johnston gas station
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Plow at the ready
Credit Bradley Campbell / RIPR
Brown University, quiet in the snow
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Walkers in Dexter Park, Friday evening
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Gov Chafee urges residents to prepare
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Silent statue, downtown Providence courthouse
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James Barbosa, salting and shoveling at RISD dorm
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Brown MFA students playing in downtown Providence
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By RIPR newsroom

The National Weather Service is still compiling the data from this past weekend’s snow storm.  But even without official measurements Meteorologist Matthew Belk says: we saw a lot of snow. “Looking across Rhode Island we’re looking at widespread accumulations of a foot and a-half to two and a-half feet of snow.  The highest snowfall that I see in RI is 27.6 inches in West Glocester.

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The Pulse
11:07 am
Tue November 13, 2012

RI has highest antibiotic use in New England

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And that matters to you because….?  Well, because if the bacterial infection you’re suffering from has evolved a resistance to available antibiotics, it will be harder to treat. There’s some new data about the spread of resistance, and new attention on it today.

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