It was either the winter of 93/94 or 94/95 after I moved to DC for a few years when I remember Newport and Bristol getting buried for a good number of weeks. I think 93/94.
Bristol is awful. I went to college there, and winters sucked. It was my first time living in R.I.. My nickname for the state is, Rain Island. The "March Super Storm" of 93 was the one memorable event during my time there. My daughter is there and has been there for the past 5 years and she has seen a couple good storms though.