Posted on 08/29/2011 6:14:04 PM PDT by Palter
Almost a dozen New England towns were rendered virtual islands Monday as floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Irene reshaped parts of Vermont and upstate New York, turning placid rivers into raging torrents and some streets into treacherous mud bogs.
Hundreds of roads remained closed, dozens of bridges were gone and entire towns were cut off from assistance in the worst flooding some areas have seen in a century.
A day earlier, Irene dumped up to 11 inches on parts of Vermont and more than 13 inches on some areas of New York a deluge that quickly overwhelmed waterways, storm sewers and drainage systems. At one point, the floodwaters were rising so fast that Vermont officials feared they might have to take the extraordinary step of flooding the state capital of Montpelier to relieve pressure on a dam.
"We prepared for the worst and we got the worst in central and southern Vermont," Gov. Peter Shumlin said. "It's just devastating whole communities under water. ... We're tough folks here in Vermont, but Irene really ... hit us hard."
The destruction was etched across the landscape: highways washed out by fast-moving water, bridges and homes crumpled into heaps of broken planks and streets filled with mud thick enough to stop heavy duty vehicles in their tracks.
The images were much the same in upstate New York, where buildings that had withstood a century of hard winters and spring floods were carried away. The floodwaters upended cars and trucks and sent trees tumbling down rivers like matchsticks.
"We were expecting heavy rains," said Bobbi-Jean Jeun of Clarksville, a rural hamlet near Albany. "We were expecting flooding. We weren't expecting devastation."
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Agnes in 1972 was just a tropical storm when it hit the NE. It ended up being the most destructive tropical system to date as far as dollar amount of damage
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Why do you keep repeating that falsehood over and over again? You know it’s not true and don’t forget Agnes also hit FL, GA, NC, SC, MUCH of that cost was there, not in the NE. You can’t make stuff up, enough, also why do you never post links to back up your so called facts? The reason you don’t is because you make them up.
Billions Name Year
$81.2 Hurricane Katrina[1] 2005
$40.7 Hurricane Andrew[2] 1992
$37.6 Hurricane Ike[3][4] 2008
$29.1 Hurricane Wilma[5][6][7][8] 2005
$18.6 Hurricane Charley[9][10] 2004
$18.1 Hurricane Ivan[11][12] 2004
$15.2 Hurricane Agnes[13] 1972
$14.1 Hurricane Hugo[14][15] 1989
$10.5 Hurricane Rita[16] 2005
$10.4 Hurricane Frances[12][14][17] 2004
$10.2 Hurricane Gilbert[18] 1988
$10.1 Hurricane Irene 2011
$9.4 Hurricane Betsy[14][19] 1965
$8.5 Hurricane Gustav[20] 2008
$8.2 Hurricane Mitch[21][22][23][24][25] 1998
$8.0 Hurricane Jeanne[12][14][26][27] 2004
$8.0 Hurricane Camille[14] 1969
$7.9 Hurricane Fifi[14][28] 1974
$7.9 Hurricane Georges[27][29][30] 1998
$6.8 Hurricane Diane[14] 1955
$6.6 Hurricane Donna[14][31] 1960
$6.5 Hurricane Frederic[14] 1979
$6.4 Tropical Storm Allison 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_costliest_Atlantic_hurricanes#Overall_costliest
Death Tolls by Area Area Deaths
Canada 2
Cuba 9
Florida 9
North Carolina 2
Virginia 13
Delaware 1
Maryland 19
New Jersey 1
New York 24
Pennsylvania 50
Total 130
Wiki says 130, 11 of which were not in the United States. Which would be 119 in the U. S. hardly the deadliest storm.
That is just a correction of your post.
No kidding. All media hype. Once Perry gets elected, you won't see the White House all worried about rain storms that only affect the Liberal Northeast.
You may not realize it, but you come across as thinking you’re superior to northerners. It’s no better than the condescension exhibited by napscoordinator towards you southerners.
I saw some YouTube vids of my little, beloved Jamaica ...I’m so worried about our little cabin on the side of Pikes Falls.
I loved the way the folks of Jamaica rolled up their sleeves and made Rt 30 passable to emergency vehicles.
All are in my prayers and thoughts.
But we are more regionally chauvinistic down here and more socially conservative.
Whether that is superior is debatable.
I do not understand northern whites...why do so many lean socially liberal?...and busybodies..do gooders?
I lived amongst them. Beats me.
People lump the south as Naps did with the perennial bad stats but they lack the courage to explain why our stats are so bad...it's just how it is.
When folks make fun of white trash northerners, it's “southern” Hoosiers or southern or Appalachian Ohioans...occasionally one hears of the Pine Barrens folks in Jersey conveniently in southern Jersey..lol
We are reacting to Yankee condescension...one we have known and felt since toddlers. I grew up in Mississippi knowing very young that northerners looked down on us about race and basically everything else but our women. IF our reaction seems that way then my apologies.
You do realize this theme has been in play since the founding even before there was a midwest or deep south...then it was between New England versus Maryland south in the colonies
the most distinct difference tween us and ya’ll is personality and it's a paradox to be honest...myself notwithstanding...southerners are loathe to confrontation, warmer and more surface friendly and all that but if crossed will kill you quicker
I'm not sure these ways are gonna hold up frankly...the youth here are becoming more blended and some thuggish like black trash...the old ways are dying out quick in the mid South where I now live...we are half northern anyhow now...
in Mississippi where I come from...they are holding on
I could deal with Indiana if I had to and I actually like the panhandle of Nebraska
but at my age I am more at home with my own kind...my very first day here 11 years ago I saw folks here calling my southern ancestors Nazis and call for all slaveowners to have been hanged ..man, woman and child. ago to any southern thread and you will see it right now..
and on a conservative forum if we white southerners did not vote like WE do, we woulda all gone down the crapper 20 years ago...our fairly rigid bloc is the electoral punch that makes it happen...thank God for Texas...we lost VA and NC on the great black hope...and why the demographic shift in those two states? well...it gets back to precisely the same thing.
IF white northerners voted like we do, we would not even need this forum.
John Donne
They mostly went to live near their children and grandchildren in other states. Their children had to leave because there are no jobs for them. http://www.snellingcenter.org/filemanager/filedownload/phpRBSz25/3-20-08%20Southern%20Vermont%20population%20declines.pdf
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