 Just the Facts
Official snowfall: 28.6 inches (At T.F. Green Airport, the National Weather Service
measuring station). During the most intense 24 hours, 27.6 inches fell, a one-day
snowfall record dating to 1904.
Deepest Weather Service listed unofficial snowfall: 54 inches, Woonsocket.
Least unofficial snowfall: 10 inches, Block Island.
Most intense snowfall: 3 inches/hour Feb. 6., 7 p.m.-8 p.m.
Biggest wind gust: 58 knots, or 67 mph, 8 p.m., Feb. 6.
Duration: Began 10:10 a.m., Feb. 6. Ended 10:44 p.m. Feb. 7.
Deaths attributed to Blizzard: 21 (R.I.)
Cars abandoned on Routes 95, 195, 146 in greater Providence: 1,950.
Abandoned cars towed from Providence streets: 3,000.
Drivers who spent first night in cars: 1,000.
Motorists rescued by R.I. National Guard: 2,968.
Children stranded overnight in schools: 900.
Shelters opened: 66.
Persons sheltered: 9,150.
Trips by National Guard ferrying doctors, nurses, medicine: 3,527.
Homes, businesses losing electric power: 11,800.
U.S. military rescue force: 478 soldiers, 178 pieces of equipment.
Snow clearing equipment rented from Buffalo, N.Y.: 100 pieces.
City's initial estimate of snowclearing force: 100 pieces.
City's later estimate of snowclearing force: 8 pieces.
State of emergency declared: 5 p.m., Feb. 6.
Providence reopened to business: Feb. 13.
Cost to state: $6.6 million, expenses and lost taxes.
Total federal disaster assistance: $14,841,484.
Federal snow removal aid: $4,272,116.
Federal Food Stamps: $7,665,768 (to an estimated 90,000 persons).
Lost wages, private sector: $30 million.
Workers who lost wages: 152,000.
Unemployment benefits paid: $8 million
Homes damaged: 30.
Looting suspects charged: 25.
COMPILED by BRIAN C. JONES
SOURCES: National Weather Service, American Red Cross, Journal-Bulletin files,
state Emergency Management Agency (formerly Civil Preparedness Agency)
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