The state of Rhode Island will lift its travel ban at noon on Tuesday, after record-breaking snowfall from Monday’s massive nor’easter, Governor Dan McKee announced.
McKee held a news conference Tuesday morning to announce the ban would be lifted, and to give other updates on cleanup efforts. He said that although the ban will be lifted at noon, he encouraged people to stay home if they can while crews work on the roads.
“We have never seen this much snow quite frankly in the records of Rhode Island,” McKee said. “We’re going to keep on working with our municipalities at this point in time.”
McKee said mutual aid crews from other states would be coming in to help local crews.
Rhode Island was hit particularly hard in this storm, receiving the highest snowfall amounts in the region and breaking the all time record for snowfall in a day.
According to the latest tallies from the National Weather Service, T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, hit the jackpot for accumulation, at 37.9 inches.
There was also at least one death attributed to the storm. A 21-year-old Salve Regina student died of carbon monoxide poisoning while charging his cell phone in his car.