nosedived<\/a> to minus 47 F (minus 44 C) and the wind chill was measured in excess of minus 108 degrees.\u00a0<\/p>\nThere was some collateral damage from the extreme cold and high winds.<\/p>\n
Boston Medical Center closed its emergency department after a pipe froze and burst on Saturday night. It is expected to remain closed until Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll patients in the affected areas of the Emergency Department were safely moved to other areas of the hospital,” the center said in a tweet.<\/p>\n
A Providence, Rhode Island armory being used as a warming center had some of its windows blown out by raging winds on Friday into Saturday, but repairs were soon completed.<\/p>\n
No one at the Cranston Street Armory was ever in danger, Matthew Sheaff, a spokesperson for Gov. Dan McKee, said in an email Sunday. People simply moved to other rooms, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Boston’s Boch Center Wang Theater was forced to cancel two soldout shows by the Impractical Jokers when a sprinkler pipe in the boiler room burst at about 5 p.m. Saturday, the theater said on social media.<\/p>\n
The building was evacuated and the shows canceled when the fire department and theater management determined the system could not be quickly repaired. The shows were rescheduled for late April.<\/p>\n
James \u201cMurr\u201d Murray of the Impractical Jokers posted his own apology on Twitter.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo all of our Boston fans, so sorry about tonight. We were five minutes from showtime, with a full theater, at the first show tonight, and the pipes burst from the cold in Boston and flooded the entire basement of the theater,” he said in a short video.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s above average temperatures in the region were expected to stick around awhile, said Bob Oravec, the lead forecaster at the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re having much more milder flow across a good part of the country and we do expect the temperatures to be above average for the upcoming week across the good part of the country, especially the Northeast,”Oravec said.<\/p>\n
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