Rhode Island outages after Henri down to about 10,500

PROVIDENCE, RI- As of 10 a.m. Tuesday over 10,500 National Grid customers in Rhode Island are without power with the overwhelming majority of outages being reported in Washington County but they hope to have most of them back online by the afternoon.

Over 43,000 were without power 24 hours ago.

More than 80,000 customers in the state were without electricity at the height of Sunday’s storm that made landfall in Rhode Island and brought wind gusts of up to 70 mph.

Only a few hundred homes and businesses were without power in Massachusetts as of Tuesday morning, according to the state’s major utilities.

National Grid spokesperson Jennifer Bray said the utility’s goal is to restore power to the “vast majority” of Rhode Island customers by Tuesday afternoon, but noted that in some cases in may take longer.

Westerly, Jamestown, South Kingstown, Charlestown and Narragansett are among the hardest hit communities, she said.

National Grid in a statement said it was well prepared for the storm and re-allocated hundreds of crews to support restoration efforts in Rhode Island. More than 2,000 company workers were in the field in Rhode Island, and work continued overnight.

Washington County- 10,693 customers affected

Providence County – 212 customers affected

Newport County- 6 customer affected

Kent County – 686 customers affected

Hopkinton currently has the highest number of power outages with 2,884 customers affected as of Tuesday morning, according to National Grid.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.