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Video of Vermont losing one of its covered bridges.


1 posted on 08/29/2011 6:14:14 PM PDT by Palter
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To: Palter

There are some in this forum who think this is no big deal.

To them, floods like this, and living without tap water with a house full of kids and a barn full of animals with no way to get emergency aid if you need it, is no big deal. They go through it all the time and never have a care in the world about it.


2 posted on 08/29/2011 6:18:33 PM PDT by Westbrook
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My sister and her family left LI to go to my brother's condo in Vermont, thinking it would be better.

Her house is fine, but they are stuck!

5 posted on 08/29/2011 6:26:16 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Rock you like a Herman Cain 2012)
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Terrible! But this is a conservative site, I am amazes how liberal some of these states that got the worst damage. I truly believe people's prayers kept this from a cat 3 hurricane. I pray for these people now!

I was on Long Island when it came. I was praying in my hotel while ermergency responders set up shop in the lobby. They were so happy that the winds were lower than expected. The Trees were swaying like Flags. I do not understand the rebuke of the media. I saw what I saw. I would rather be over prepared than not at all.

People are out of electricity and then it escalates like this Vermont. Sad!

6 posted on 08/29/2011 6:31:54 PM PDT by johngrace (1 John 4)
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so-o-o sorry!


7 posted on 08/29/2011 6:33:46 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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In northwestern Maine heavy rain isolated the Sugarloaf ski resort.

Two bridges on Hwy 27 are out. One on either side of the entrance road.

One bridge is completely gone. Road between Carrabasset Valley and Stratton will be closed indefinately.


8 posted on 08/29/2011 6:34:23 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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Poor native Vermonters. They had their state stolen from them by socialist hippies. Now, this. My mother-in-law lived in Vermont - all of her friends left the state in the last 10-15 years.


9 posted on 08/29/2011 6:34:41 PM PDT by Montanabound
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We just spent a beautiful week in Vermont the first week of August. It broke my heart to see this bridge go into the river. We took numerous pictures of covered bridges up near Stowe and Jeffersonville, near the Notch.

While I don’t agree with a lot of the liberal policies of the people in Vermont, I know it’s not everyone. We met some really nice conservative people who are just trying to deal with it.

And there is no way anyone should wish some kind of disaster like this upon people. Some people are just mean.


17 posted on 08/29/2011 6:57:32 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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With a population of 630,000, Vermont is just a big city.


18 posted on 08/29/2011 7:05:57 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Well, we had that a fews years back with Allison...little ole’ tropical storm that dropped 37 inches of rain in Houston, TX. That little gal took out hospitals in the medical center, trapped people on their homes etc...she created one heck of a problem for Houston, TX.


41 posted on 08/29/2011 8:22:47 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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The land is being returned to it’s rightful owner- mother nature. The Leftists of VT should celebrate! After all, mother nature is more effective than implementing agenda 21, and population control.


42 posted on 08/29/2011 8:24:59 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est)
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Flood Control in Vermont and northern NY State?
Are you crazy?
What the H__ is Flood Control?
We don` need no flood control!
We don want no stinkin Flood Control!
Irene is the best way to get new topsoil every 100 years.

That`s why Vermont has more cows than people and fewer covered bridges.


43 posted on 08/29/2011 8:25:52 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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Isn’t it moonlight in Vermont now?


44 posted on 08/29/2011 8:26:37 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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There is another storm out there that the models indicate may head northward along the coast. Hopefully it will stay far out and not touch land if it does develope.


83 posted on 08/30/2011 4:00:54 PM PDT by deport
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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.


87 posted on 08/31/2011 6:57:50 AM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

90 posted on 08/31/2011 8:56:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
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