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Power Restored to Nearly All of NK

Most of town is now with power.

Four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, power has been restored to most of North Kingstown as of Friday morning.

According to National Grid, fewer than 250 North Kingstown customers (less than two percent of all NK) are still without power. During the height of the outages, . 

One of the last areas to come back online was the lower end of Post Road, just north of Wickford Village. 

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National Grid also made large gains in Rhode Island's hard-hit communities in South County, including South Kingstown. More than 75 percent of customers in South Kingstown were without power at one point. Now, that figure has dropped to 14 percent. 


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