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March 5, 2008

The big storm delivers wind, lightning, and power losses

About 9,000 customers were without power at about 8 a.m. today according to National Grid spokeswoman Debbie Drew.

About 6,000 customers in downtown Providence and Johnston are in the dark; Drew says they should resume power within the hour.

And in the southern part of the state, including South Kingstown, North Kingstown and Westerly, about 3,000 customers are without power, but should have juice in less than a half hour.

"We knew we were looking at some extreme weather," she said, "so we have had, and still have crews at the ready since early this morning.'

High winds and thunderstorms are in the forecast until midday today, and lighting has been reported throughout the area, including a strike that likely led to the outage in Providence.

"We're expecting by about noon, things will get calmer," Drew said. "We'll be at the ready, chasing outages all morning until we're wrapped up."

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

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