This March recorded the most rainfall second only to March 2010 when two nor’easters hit the state within a week with the second storm during 8.79 inches of rain over two days. We weren’t hit that hard this year, but there were a lot of rainy days. According to National Weather Service data this March delivered 12.05 inches of rain as compared to March 2010 with 16.34 inches. All the water had sump pumps working overtime and the fire department pumping out basements that usually were bone dry. Streets in low lying areas were constantly wet, lawns were spongy and properties like this one on Point Avenue in Conimicut were flooded for days. The Pawtuxet River as well as area streams climbed over their banks, but fortunately the city was spared from the flooding of 2010 that shuttered the Warwick Mall for more than a year and surmounted the levee at the Warwick Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Warwick Animal Shelter. The levee has since been raised and the treatment plant upgraded. (Warwick Beacon photo)