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The scene on Ocean View Freeway in Westerley, R.I. Matthew J Lee/Globe Workers
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Related Press
August 22, 2021 | 4:02 PM
CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The most recent developments on Tropical Storm Henri and its impacts on the Northeast:
4:45 p.m.
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee says the state is already transferring into the restoration and evaluation section after Tropical Storm Henri, with the highest precedence being restore energy to tens of 1000’s of residents and companies.
The Democratic governor says Nationwide Grid already has crews out engaged on restoring electrical energy, and the purpose is to get everybody again on-line by Tuesday.
“We expect temperatures within the 90s starting Tuesday … and that’s the reason getting energy restored is crucial for the well being and security of our residents, our economic system, and our small companies,” he stated at state emergency administration headquarters in Cranston.
Terence Sobolewski, the president of Nationwide Grid Rhode Island, stated it’s anticipated to take a few days to get energy absolutely restored.
The state has additionally began the method of assessing harm to get most reimbursement from the federal authorities, McKee stated. He stated on his tour of the state through the peak of the storm, he didn’t see any main harm.
4:30 p.m.
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont introduced he will probably be lifting a journey ban at 5 p.m. that went into impact on Sunday morning on all empty tractor trailers, tandem tractor trailers, and bikes on Interstate 95.
The Democrat urged individuals to remain off the highway till the storm utterly passes the state.
Storm-related flooding was blamed for main delays within the Hartford suburb of Wethersfield alongside Interstate 91, a significant artery by means of Connecticut’s capital metropolis.
Brian Foley, particular assistant to the Division of Emergency Providers and Public Safety, stated there was “water over the roadway on a number of lanes” and a pair accidents.
The northbound lane was closed for a brief interval and visitors was rerouted.
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4:15 p.m.
Eversource, Connecticut’s largest electrical energy provider, reported 32,902 of its 1.28 million prospects within the state had been with out energy as of mid-afternoon.
Communities in rural parts of jap Connecticut had the most important proportion of energy outages within the state by mid-afternoon on Sunday.
The small city of Canterbury had the most important proportion of consumers with out electrical energy, almost 95%, in accordance with Eversource. About 2,180 of the two,305 had been with out energy. Downed bushes had been accountable for most of the outages. In close by Lisbon, 1,205 of the corporate’s 1,891 prospects had been with out electrical energy.
“We’ve had bushes come down on swimming swimming pools and on a number of homes. However thankfully, none of these incidents resulted in anyone being harm,” First Selectman Thomas Sparkman instructed NBC Connecticut.
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4 p.m.
Storm-related flooding from Henri has brought on main delays within the Hartford suburb of Wethersfield alongside Interstate 91 northbound, a significant artery by means of Connecticut’s capital metropolis.
Brian Foley, particular assistant to the Division of Emergency Providers and Public Safety, tweeted that visitors was decreased to 1 lane and there have been a number of accidents.
Visitors cameras confirmed quite a few automobiles backed up. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Twitter urged motorists to “keep away from the realm whereas crews work to deal with the state of affairs.”
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3:30 p.m.
Tropical Storm Henri was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, and made landfall close to Westerly, R.I., Sunday afternoon with sustained winds of about 60 mph and gusts of as much as 70 mph, in accordance with the Nationwide Hurricane Heart.
Henri has since weakened to sustained winds of fifty mph because it strikes inland.
There have been few early studies of main harm on account of wind or surf, however officers warned of the hazard of spot flooding in inland areas over the subsequent few days.
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2:30 p.m.
Cities all through New Jersey reported heavy rains and avenue flooding starting Saturday evening. Some locations received as a lot as 8 inches (20 centimeters) by noon Sunday.
Tv video footage confirmed some spots the place flash flooding or overflowing brooks had left quite a few vehicles stranded, some with water as much as their home windows.
Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy instructed Information 12NJ that the storm within the state had up to now been a rain occasion however “a giant rain occasion.” He stated the state had been spared very windy situations though the winds might decide up later. “It’s a superb day to remain house,” he stated, urging individuals to remain off the roads.
Marshall Shepherd, director of the atmospheric sciences program on the College of Georgia and former president of the American Meteorological Society, stated Henri was reminiscent in some methods of Hurricane Harvey, a slow-moving storm that decimated the Houston space in 2017, exacerbated when bands of rain arrange east of the town, a phenomenon meteorologists name “coaching.”
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1:30 p.m.
Rhode Island has reopened main bridges within the state to visitors however restrictions stay in place for some automobiles.
All roads to the seaside group of Misquamicut stay closed due to wind-driven flooding. Misquamicut is a small cluster of seaside accommodations and trip cottages and was closely broken by storm surge throughout Superstorm Sandy.
The Nationwide Climate Service’s Boston workplace has reported about 75,000 prospects with out energy in Rhode Island, about 20,000 prospects out in Connecticut and almost 6,900 prospects out in Massachusetts.
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12:30 p.m.
Tropical Storm Henri has made landfall in Rhode Island.
The Nationwide Hurricane Heart says Henri got here ashore within the coastal city of Westerly round 12:30 p.m. It had earlier handed over Block Island, a small however standard vacationer island 13 miles (21 kilometers) offshore in Block Island Sound.
Henri was packing most sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour), and it was producing 19-foot (5.8-meter) waves in some locations simply earlier than making landfall.
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12:15 p.m.
Rhode Island has shut down main bridges within the state on account of excessive winds.
All roads to the seaside group of Misquamicut have been closed by authorities due to wind-driven flooding. Misquamicut is a small cluster of seaside accommodations and trip cottages and was closely broken by storm surge throughout Superstorm Sandy.
The state is stitched collectively by bridges so shutting them down might imply persons are trapped the place they’re till the storm passes.
Nationwide Grid is reporting 74,000 prospects with out energy in Rhode Island and EverSource is reporting almost 20,000 prospects out in Connecticut.
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7:40 a.m.
Henri weakened barely to a tropical storm early Sunday because it edged nearer to landfall.
Thousands and thousands of individuals on New York’s Lengthy Island and in southern New England braced for flooding, toppled bushes and prolonged energy outages.
Henri was on track to crash into an extended stretch of northeastern shoreline by noon Sunday. The middle of the storm was projected to go over the jap tip of Lengthy Island.
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