VIEWFINDER: Remembering Hurricane Irene One Year Later

There is little trace today of the hurricane that ravaged Rhode Island's coastline, uprooted trees, flooded neighborhoods and darkened the homes of hundreds of thousands across the state just year ago.

On the anniversary of the day Hurricane Irene tore throught the Ocean State, Tiverton and Little Compton residents can look back on the experiences of the storm that cut power lines and damaged properties and face a new hurricane season with a little more experience and a little more preparedness.

Although Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm before reaching Rhode Island soils, she swept through with enough fury to topple trees throughout Tiverton and Little Compton, jump the break walls at Sakonnet Point and keep hundreds of local homes in the dark for more than three days.

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