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Providence Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski

Kevin Sullivan, a lineman for National Grid, is up in a bucket truck working on getting electricity to a new building that's opening on Walnut Grove Ave, in Cranston. Crew workers wear at least three layers of clothes on bitterly cold days. An underlayer of Nomex, pants and then thermal one-piece coveralls. The gloves they wear are cotten and insulated.

The crew, working in Cranston, talks about what they wear to stay warm during the cold snap in this Providence Journal video by Steve Szydlowski

The state Departments of Health and Elderly Affairs today issued an extreme cold advisory, as the forecast calls for frigid temperatures starting this afternoon that will plummet further by the weekend.

Read the winter weather advisory.

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