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Hurricane Ian left many on San Carlos Island in the hard-hit Fort Myers area with no place to go. No place but Joe Fernandez’s.
Suzanne Ellis Wernevi remembers being on Block Island during Hurricane Bob in 1991, and she can tell you that Tropical Storm Henri was no Bob. “I think we got lucky,” Wernevi said from her ...
Block Island after the eye of Tropical Storm Henri passed. The Providence Journal. Owner Russell Shippeel Takes Us To The Top Of His Lighthouse.
Henri had weakened from a category 1 hurricane to a tropical storm by the time it hit Block Island. It made landfall near the Westerly-Charlestown border an hour and 15 minutes later.
Henri was moving toward Block Island, R.I., and southwestern Rhode Island, according to the National Hurricane Center, which said in an 8 a.m. update on Sunday that the storm had maximum sustained ...
The Block Island Ferry canceled service for the third day Monday due to high surf and strong winds, caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia.
UPDATE Marco Island has issued a mandatory evacuation ahead of Hurricane Ian. "Given most recent estimates of storm surge predicted to be 6-9 feet and continuing to increase, conditions warrant an ...
Block Island is about 12 miles (19 kilometers) off the Rhode Island coast. It has one town, New Shoreham. Advertisement: According to its website, the 36-room Harborside Inn, has been welcoming ...
The hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm and made landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island at 12:15 p.m. Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center. It brought maximum sustained winds ...
John Breunig, superintendent of the Block Island Water Company, had to carefully monitor the supply during the fire before finally asking the firefighters to switch over to seawater around 3 a.m.