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Trick-Or-Treating In Tiverton-Little Compton: Residents Without Power Not Sure What To Do

Should those in dark neighborhoods postpone Halloween activities, or head to other, powered, areas? According to National Grid's outage map, about 600 homes are still without power.

 


There's scary, and there's SCARY. Trick-or-treating without light of any kind (street lights, house lights, etc.) may be a bit much. So those residents without power are wondering what to do?

One idea is to travel to a neighborhood with power. Another is to postpone Halloween for a day or two or three.

There are still about 600 residences without electricity, according to National Grid's power outage map.  More than a 100 North Tiverton homes are still in the dark on Wednesday. Add that to the darkened houses in the Lake and South Lake road neighborhoods along with other scattered outages around town for a total 478 Tiverton customers still with no power.

Power is largely restored to the Little Compton area, but several Adamsville neighborhoods along with Amesbury Lane homes and other scattered outages around town left 157 customers still in the dark on Halloween. 

Gov. Lincoln Chafee issued a press release encouraging caution tonight. 

"Our state is still dealing with the effects of Hurricane Sandy. These include extensive damage to roadways and sidewalks, fallen trees, downed power lines, and widespread power outages. Anyone out – whether driving or on foot – in areas with debris and without power must exercise extreme caution and vigilance."

What do you think – should everything proceed as usual or should we postpone Halloween until power's restored?

Leave your thoughts, ideas, comments below.

Related Topics: Halloween 2012, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Sandy aftermath, Sandy 2012, and Sandy cleanup

Daniel Rodriguez

4:08 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

I'm ready but I'm not sure where to take my son in Tiverton. Any ideas?

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Just Another Taxpayer

4:08 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Maybe residents should contact their Town Administrator?

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John

2:58 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012

Put it off until Sat. The safety of the children is the most important with wires still down on the streets

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Joe Sousa.

3:08 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012

Seems the Ghouls and Goblins got along just fine last night.

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Daniel Rodriguez

3:08 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012

We were fine and the kids had a good time. Sad though for the people not having power. There were some places with downed power lines and I stepped on one I couldn't see. It probably would have been better to postpone it a few days.

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Cranky Yankee

3:08 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012

Isn't this article a day late and dollar short?? It popped into my inBox at 9:14 PM on Halloween ... long after the porch lights were turned off.

Timely and Breaking News seems to be a thing of the past on Patch ... sad to say.

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Russ Smith

3:08 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012

If your kids are bored and looking for something fun (and safe) to do, the Newport County YMCA is going to screen "Toy Story" at Sandywoods tomorrow night for free! Movie starts at 6:30 pm on Friday 11/2. You can bring food from home or buy pizza slices & soda & popcorn from the Y at Sandywoods. Kids can bring pillows & blankets if they want. Dress 'em up in their costumes!

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