Thousands Still Without Power In Tiverton and Little Compton
More than 3,000 Tiverton and Little Compton residents are still without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy at 11 a.m. on Tuesday.
The sun is shining on Tuesday morning, but scattered limbs and widespread power outages are a reminder are all that remain of Hurricane Sandy. After most of Little Compton and Portsmouth reportedly lost power during the storm on Monday, about 1,346 Tiverton residents and 1,423 Little Compton residents were still awaiting restoration on Tuesday morning at 11 a.m. According to National Grid's website, thousands of employees are on the ground working to restore power as quickly as possible on Tuesday with hundreds more of being supplemented from crews in Canada and across the US. After Hurricane Irene in 2011, hundreds across the East Bay region were left in the dark for three or four days. Although calls to National Grid's media relations…
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John
3:08 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012
Who would leave there generator running at night? The frig. will be fine for 8 hours or so without power. It's a waste of gas to run a generator at night. Maybe they need a night light because of the boggy man? LOL. Or maybe you peed them off at one time? Or maybe there dumb as a stump? Sorry to hear that Tivie or Grumpy. You should get one for the next storm, because there will be another! You … more ›