Sunday, February 10, 2013
By about 9:30 am Sunday, about 3,000 outages had been resolved with more than 13,000 left, according to National Grid.
National Grid crews made some progress toward restoring electrical power to customers in Bristol and Warren on Sunday morning, reporting that about 3,000 out of 16,000 households had been brought back online. Almost all of Warren, including Touisset, and most of Bristol still remained without power, and National Grid estimated that it may be Monday night before electricity is completely restored to both towns. Sunday's forecast is for sun and light winds with temperatures around 33, clear with lows in the 20s overnight, then warming up to the upper 40s on Monday. How long have you gone without electricity? When did your power come back on? What did you do in the meantime to cope with the loss of electricity? Let us know in the comments…
National Grid estimated that full power may not be restored to Bristol and Warren until Monday night.
Nearly all of the 16,000-plus National Grid accounts in Bristol and Warren remained without power as of 9 pm Saturday night, and the utility estimated that full power may not be restored until late Monday. As the two towns enter a second full day without electricity — most of the region went dark late Friday night as the height of the winter storm pushed through — each had opened shelters for residents. In Bristol, the shelter is Mount Hope High School; Warren opened Kickemuit Middle School as its warm shelter. The continued aftermath of the Blizzard of 2013 also forced many cancellations of events that had been scheduled for today: Check on other cancellations and delays here. Has your organization cancelled an event scheduled for …
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Two substations — one in Barrington — are down in Rhode Island, but Bristol and Warren appear to be mostly spared so far.
Monday's thunderstorms have left 14,000 customers across the state without power and has knocked out two substations, according to the Providence Journal. National Grid is still trying to determine the severity of the damage to the two substations — one in Johnston and another in Barrington. The former of the two serves a large section of Providence. Earlier Monday morning, the State House was evacuated after a power surge set off a fire alarm. The hardest hit area is Barrington, with 4,700 of the town's 6,810 customers without power. In Providence, 4,265 are powerless with another 1,943 in Johnston and 1,864 in North Providence. Bristol and Warren have mostly avoided losing power, though National Grid reported about 50 outages in Warren…
Thursday, November 3, 2011
A Massachusetts legislator wants customers to get paid when they don't have power.
A Massachusetts legislator is urging passage of a new law that would force utility companies to rebate customers when there are extended outages. State Rep. Daniel Winslow (R-Norfolk, MA) has asked the Massachusetts House Rules Committee to take action on a power outage rebate bill. According to a release from Winslow's office reported on Wrentham Patch, the bill would require rebates to customers who go without power for more than eight hours. The rebate would be for two days of their average bill for each day the customer is without power. The move is prompted by the Halloween weekend storm that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers throughout Massachusetts, just two months after Tropical Storm Irene knocked out power …
Govstench
9:52 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
Small home Generators are a necessary when your dealing with a global company. With 400 crews working in this state, power should be back to 90% of the state. It should be disturbing that Foster-Glocester got their power back very early in the restoration effort. There must have been a lot of line work in those towns after the last storm. This is where the local politicians need to be applying … more ›