Posted on 08/31/2011 5:14:32 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
The southern half of the state has been ravaged by flooding following TS Irene on Sunday. The main road north-south in the area (US route 7) is out. The main road east-west (US route 4) is also out. The back roads as you can imagine are just as bad.
Food and water must be airlifted by the national guard since some towns can now only be reached by air or ATV. People are also unable to feed their cattle and horses. Crops are gone and kids are unable to start their school year. A 17 year old boy from Brattleboro has still not been found.
We need your prayers first and foremost. After that we could use some help with supplying food to these folks.
You can use the text option above or you can give on their secure website.
If you live close to this area and can volunteer, there is a site to connect people with those needing help.
http://vtresponse.wordpress.com/
Please don't politicize this. People need help. If you are able, please be a good Samaritan and do whatever you can.
You can follow this link to see many more pictures of the damage.
What a great idea! Thanks for posting it!
Aw nuts! :-p Here's a bump anyway. Here in NJ we also had real bad flooding--the worst I've ever seen. Good luck and be well.
bttt
Vermont is pretty close to a socialist state, I am sure the mommy government has this in the bag.
/s/
Serious question here as my sister and I were wondering about this the other day. Why are we hearing so much about damage in Vermont and not New Hampshire? It looks as though the track of the storm pretty much when along the state line between NH and VT. Were the rainfall amounts substantially different? Is the topography of the two states less similar than I had imagined? We are so accustomed to seeing a hurricane’s effect on topographically flat states, that seeing the damage one can do to low-lying and run-off area’s in a mountainous state is jarring!
In NH The run off is divided between the Connecticut and the Merrimack rivers. The Merrimack is central, thus the river runoff isn't as long..
Vermont doesn't have a lot of paved roads, so if one is damaged it can cause really long detours.
Having Route 7 and 4 out paralyzes everything in the southwest. The 2 highways, 91 and 89 run along the CT river, then midstate to the northwest.
I lived near the Bartonsville bridge that washed out. Depending on where you work and shop it could easily mean a 20-30 mile detour with a lot of washboard gravel roads. That could be why the woman was so upset.
A lot of the gravel roads follow the valley streams, so I suspect a lot of those are washed out as well.
bump
“Why are we hearing so much about damage in Vermont and not New Hampshire?”
Or upstate NY? We have many friends that are still stranded by washed-out roads with no power/phone service.
We’d love to help VT, but we’re busy over here right now.
“A lot of the gravel roads follow the valley streams...”
Very true. It seems like every back road here in upstate NY follows a small stream or creek. I was told that deer trails became paths and paths eventually became roads. Our house (built in 1813) sits directly on a creek. In fact, our deck extends over the water. It’s a bridge to the other side where we have our back yard/gardens.
We faired well in the floods here, but neighbors got nailed.
A noble idea, but "Help Vermont" is associated with "Feeding America", which has creepy neo-Communist propaganda billboards of a cartoon girl in front of a rice bowl - created by none other than Shepherd Fairey of Obama's "HOPE" campaign poster fame! Like 9/11 and so many other tragedies, donation organization should be highly scrutinized.
How about finding a good church in Vermont and giving to them? You get a tax break AND there will be a Christian organization distributing the help. Win-win.
They have crews whose only job is to bridge crossings heavy enough for tanks to cross. Several programs on Discovery Channel showing how they can bridge a crossing under an hour.
I know that West Lebanon, NH which is right on the Connecticut River was heavily flooded.
The major roads as well. Rt 2 and I89 both follow the Winooski River.
Townspeople in Pittsfield VT work to save RT 100 Bridge
Folks were nasty here about New Orleans too for criminal blacks and corrupted Democrat politicians there
none of which has anything to do with decent folks in trouble Geron.
I know that bridge...there is a white burger joint stand...long white clapboard thing...near there?
VT 100 is a treasure of a road
Done...prayers also.
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