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August 4, 2006

Power restored for most of the state

Fewer than 100 Rhode Island households and businesses are still without power this morning after a power failure left 4,900 customers in the dark last night.

“We basically are all cleaned up,” National Grid spokeswoman Debbie Drew said this morning.

The remaining customers without power are scattered throughout the state, and National Grid employees will be working to bring their power back as quickly as possible – “likely this morning,” Drew said.

National Grid worked yesterday to restore electricity to some 20,000 customers who lost power in the afternoon as the result of problems stemming from a lightning strike during Wednesday night’s storm. Virtually all power was restored around 6 p.m. last night.

But then, last night’s high winds and downed branches knocked out power to 4,900 Rhode Island customers, mostly in South County and West Bay communities. Throughout the night, National Grid employees worked to bring power back to those customers, Drew said.

Read more about the power outages in today’s Journal.

Posted by Kate Bramson  at 8:06 AM | Permalink

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