Posted on 07/11/2023 9:12:16 PM PDT by metmom
Powerful flooding in Ludlow, Vermont, has apparently washed away the land underneath a portion of railroad and left the train tracks suspended in mid-air, photos and video from the scene show.
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Do people build capitols in low places, or do they become low because a capitol was built there?
Do people build capitols over swamps, or do they become swamps because the capitol was built there?
What takes man years to build, Nature can destroy in minutes!
I don’t know what your comment is in reference to here. The capital of Vermont is Montpelier and is on very high ground. It is also 2 hours from Ludlow.
Disney’s next thrill ride?
Looks like it is an abandon line.
I hope so. There are still trains that run through New England and the thought that Amtrak was using that line with a bridge in that kind of condition to be washed away is alarming.
People seem to be unaware that the whole are flooded big time in the late 60s - early 70s...they were dynamiting houses floating down the Susquehanna River to break them up before they hit bridges...
Sorry, but that is NOT showing flood effects.
It is a mudslide, effect of heavy rain.
The mud surrounding the buildings was deposited by the slide, NOT left by floodwaters.
The train tracks were part of a trestle which spanned a gully, again showing a loss of the hillside. It is possible that the mud around the buildings originated from the slide in the area of the trestle but, again, no ‘flood’.
There is no evidence of flooding in that video.
There were a bunch of articles about the capitol of Vermont flooding yesterday.
The Vermont Country Store posted on its Facebook page a day ago that it’s Weston store is okay, but it’s closed because roads to Weston are impassable. They’re asking folks to defer trying to visit there for the time being.
The Rockingham store, off 91, is open.
No updates since then on their Facebook page.
Let’s see those kids go poke a dead man with a stick now.
There were a bunch of articles about the capitol of Vermont flooding yesterday.
If that is the case show documentation of such when posting. Drive by comments about things not mention in the posting are dumb.
I have since seen articles about the flooding in Montpelier, but it has nothing to do with its location as the capital. Montpelier is just another small town in Vermont that was hit.
Trivia, Montpelier is the smallest state capital by pop in America.
Coincidence?
Vermont’s liberal Republican gov. signs radical laws protecting abortion, transgender surgeries
Drive by comments are my specialty.
That thought occurred to me as well.
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