CRANSTON − Help for blizzard-weary Rhode Island plow drivers arrived Wednesday, Feb. 25, from Vermont and other Northeast states with a few snow plows to spare.
Five Vermont Transportation Agency dump trucks towing front-end loaders arrived at the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency warehouse on Plainfield Pike around noon before being deployed across the state.
“I love the smell of Vermont diesel in the morning,” state Transportation Director Peter Alviti Jr. told reporters and more than a dozen Vermont drivers gathered at the warehouse…