What’s the latest in Rhode Island?published at 21:40 GMT
Rhode Island, America’s smallest state, appears to have received the most snow during this storm.
In fact, it’s the worst snowstorm to ever hit the state, according to local media.
Providence, the state capital, received 33in (83cm) of snow, smashing the existing record for the single greatest snowstorm, 28.6in (72.6cm) set in February 1978.
“It completely smashed it,” Candice Hrencecin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boston, told the New York Times. “We were just as shocked as everyone else.”
A spokesman for the city told The Providence Journal that so far 316 vehicles have been towed for parking in the way of plows. By the afternoon, tow operations had stopped and drivers were instead helping people whose vehicles had gotten stuck.
A travel ban remains in place, and four key bridges have been closed due to the weather.
Nearly 44,000 power outages were reported across The Ocean State as of Monday afternoon, according to Poweroutage.us


