“If you haven’t seen a National Grid crew on your street: we’re coming, we will get there and your power will be restored”.

National Grid reported that the majority of its customers without power in Rhode Island were located south of Warwick, and in the Cranston area.

National Grid Spokesperson Darlene Massey said the path of the storm left some communities with large numbers of outages. “It’s like a war zone”, said Robin Kemp of Warwick.

McDonald said the Red Cross Shelter set up last night at Warwick Veterans Memorial High School on West Shore Road served five families overnight.

According to the Red Cross, all roads in Warwick have been re-opened. The strong winds knocked over trees of all sizes and downed power lines, leaving residents and city workers with a huge mess to clean up. Another pocket in southern Rhode Island sent trees atop campers in Burlingame State Park in Charlestown, injuring at least 10.

In Boston, residents watched hail rain down for several minutes, and some Rhode Island residents also reported a brief shower of pea-sized hail. A tree landed on their home right where their children were sleeping.

RIPR’s John Bender visits Cranston residents reeling from Tuesday’s storm.

Across the region, the sounds of generators and chainsaws could be heard well into Tuesday evening. Horan noted the number without power in Warwick is down to only 11,000 today.

The shelter will provide food, water, charging stations and a safe place to spend the night.

Fung’s office says he has been traveling the city, getting a first-hand look at the damage.

One thing both parties were happy to see is that despite a good portion of traffic lights out and before a police detail was assigned to almost 20 intersections, there hadn’t been any major accidents. No injuries were reported. The problem is particularly hard in the Governor Francis neighborhood, where tree falls still blocked many roads and created de-facto dead ends as of about 3 p.m.

“Our first priority is to restore power to customers as quickly and as safely as possible”, said Timothy F. Horan, president of National Grid in Rhode Island. State-wide, more than 80,000 of the 121,000 people who lost power during the August 4 storm have had their electricity service restored.

Weather Service meteorologist Matt Doody said the storms struck between 6 and 7:30am, bringing strong winds. “We had a recorded gust of 67 miles per hour at TF Green Airport”, he said.

“For having no warning for this storm, I think we are fairing well”, Mayor Scott Avedisian said Tuesday afternoon as he and Fire Chief Edmund Armstrong took a drive throughout the city. “Several reports of trees down, some unfortunately on some homes, as well as a little bit of minor street flooding”.

“We’re in the process of exploring the damage, and figuring out, basically assessing what the damage is”, said Masse.

“Unfortunately it may be an active day”, said Doody.

“The biggest concern now”, Avedisian said, “is power lines wrapped up in tree limbs”.

“We know it’s very inconvenient for our customers when the power is out for an extended period of time”.