May 17, 2022- 7:36 a.m.
A video near North Charlestown shows what appears to be a tornado.
A possible tornado appears to have touched down in North Charlestown, but it is not yet confirmed by the National Weather Service. The service said it is sending a crew to the area Tuesday to survey the damage.
As of 10:30 p.m., there were more than 4,100 customers without power across the state. Crews are worked all night long to restore power and as of 5 a.m. Tuesday, only a few hundred outages were being reported.
In North Charlestown, the storm knocked trees and powerlines into roadways.
Fire officials and police responded to the area of Route 12 near Ox Brook Road, River Road and Shutters Way.
“It just blew everything right around me and it blew the windows out of my jeep,” Byrne said.
“And at that point the trees started falling so I just ducked down, and I slammed on the brakes and I stopped in the intersection, like the only place I could really find that there wasn’t trees coming down.”
He said he had to slam on his brakes to avoid falling trees and powerlines.
