[arctichomesteader]

Not the most pressing matter I know, but anyone know if the 1850's Somerset Schoolhouse survived the flood? I'm doubtful the road in is any good though.

[Sun Thinker]

Route 2 in Richmond is open again now. I believe the Mobil station there is still under water. This morning, everything was underwater there.

[Vermonr]

Burlington and the surrounding towns did fine with very little damage, Southern Vermont was devastated. My hometown of Brandon was hit very hard and the rt 7 is completely impassable. The rising Otter Creek wiped Brandon House of Pizza off of its foundation. I feel for the people who are stranded right now or who lost their homes. Supposedly we lost quite a few historic covered bridges.

[square peg]

My part of the NEK did all right. We have absolutely nothing to complain about in the Troy/Newport Center area. There is one house in N. Troy that is right next to the Missisquoi River and I know that basement was full of water right up to the first floor, but that's happened before. Roads (paved ones anyway) are all undamaged. The dirt roads will need some fill in places. In my travels today I counted 6 trees that had been downed.

I raked my yard today and amazingly the grass was dry. Where there would usually be wet spots, there were none. When this storm hit us we were in need of rain, so a lot of it was absorbed. We got the wind too, and for a while I didn't know exactly what to expect. We were lucky.

I'm really feeling for all those who have losses on their hands in other parts of the state and wish you the best.

[Mamasaurus0607]

It breaks my heart to see such destruction to one of the most beautiful states in New England. A place that holds wonderful childhood memories from vacationing there with my family. I am praying for everyone. May God bless you all.

[GreenMountainMan]

RT 67 heading to Hoosick Falls, NY opened up late in the afternoon. The route going pass Pownal heading to Mass is open now too. Heck that is the only way to get to Brattleboro and beyond further east is to go to Mass and come back up around. 90 minutes extra driving time.

Going to be a while before RT 9 is opened again. That highway bridge snapped in half.

My town and a good number of towns in southern Vermont is under water conservation. A lot of water mains feeding these southern towns snapped in half. Pownal is so devastated they evacuted 30 people so far.

Until the water mains are fixed, no fast food place is allowed to open down here. If you don't have to be on the roads stay off of them. It is a mad house between FEMA, Army National Guard and Army Corp of Engineers everywhere.

A lot of these leveees and dams have to be replaced. Dozens of bridges have to be replaced as well.

If they didn't have flood insurance, most of these small family owned businesses will never come back. I talked to some of them today, they don't have the money to rebuild and didn't have flood insurance either.

[DellNec]

Don't visit the New York, Long Island forum. They are a few arrogant forum members mocking Hurricane Irene and the governments "over reaction" and the media's coverage of it. The storms impact played out differently in different states. Just because the storm fizzled in some areas, it killed dozens of people in other areas and destroyed thousands of homes. Yet these forum members are laughing at people who thought the storm was going to be bad. Just because the storm bypassed them and caused little to no damage where they live doesn't mean that it did not impact others, as clearly it did.

Laughing at the expense of someones pain and tragedy. Sad and pathetic.

[MaggieZ]

shows how narrowminded and selfish some people are, DellNec...

[looking4home]

It's not that. It's just that they're New Yorkers, and they are the center of the universe! I'm only partly joking. If you watched the ludicrous Weather Channel through all of this, then you would have seen what a fuss they made over the hurricane possibly hitting NY directly. They were almost gleeful! They gave some minor lip service to NC and VA, but NY was the big fish for them. They were eagerly anticipating a very ugly disaster and turmoil that would follow. They didn't hide their feeling very well. However, the hurricane models all showed Vermont would be getting a lot of rain. The hurricane moved so slowly, sucking up ocean water, winding it's way up the eastern seaboard, just skirting the coast and never making landfall. When it finally did in Vermont, it let it all loose!

[Ellwood]

Originally Posted by looking4home

It's not that. It's just that they're New Yorkers, and they are the center of the universe! I'm only partly joking. If you watched the ludicrous Weather Channel through all of this, then you would have seen what a fuss they made over the hurricane possibly hitting NY directly. They were almost gleeful! They gave some minor lip service to NC and VA, but NY was the big fish for them. They were eagerly anticipating a very ugly disaster and turmoil that would follow. They didn't hide their feeling very well. However, the hurricane models all showed Vermont would be getting a lot of rain. The hurricane moved so slowly, sucking up ocean water, winding it's way up the eastern seaboard, just skirting the coast and never making landfall. When it finally did in Vermont, it let it all loose!

NYers who moved to Manchester VT are certainly not laughing. They opened their B&B to anyone who needs it and is feeding them all free of charge. Neighbors are helping neighbors in VT not like the dog eat dog of NYC.