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Originally Posted by ivanhoe
Now that Irene has passed us in NY we are wondering about how villagers dealt with the threat?
At what time did you feel that it would not pass too close and what was it that helped with this decision?
As perspective residents we want to learn how to correctly react to this type of event.
Thanks...
(you lucky dogs...we're dying to get there)
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I HAVE BEEN THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING. Being inland doesn't necessarily protect one.........as our state learned yesterday.
As far as moving to TV, hubby said we would have a generator installed first thing, but would like to hear other ideas as well.
Re Vermont's "tropical storm" Irene...........
For all of Sunday, we were inside nice and dry........only had one huge gust of wind...........never lost power at all. However, we were in a “bubble” for sure, not fully realizing what was happening in the rest of our town and state........as we were watching the coverage of the entire east coast.
Everyone is asking whether or not we should “rethink” our possible ultimate retirement to Florida, given the fact that they have more hurricanes, however, Gracie might have been on to something..........Florida didn’t really feel Irene, did it? Vermont is devastated at the moment. Upstate N.Y. also.
In the evening as we were watching the hurricane assessments from up and down the east coast, they said that Vermont had cows and cars floating down the rivers . Apparently, although we thought everything was fine.........as we are in the higher hillier part of town, other parts of Bennington were experiencing flooding, evacuation, bridges being washed out, roads being washed out.............Rt. 100 which goes up the middle of the state through the mountains is closed.........Rt. 9 from Bennington to Brattleboro is closed........bridges washed out. Other roads as well, closed.
At the same time, immediately aftering hearing this, our 6 year old grand daughter Caroline called to check in to see if we were o.k. as her family had just heard the news as well on their television. She had seen cars floating down the rivers, etc. I told her she can rescue us in her little kayak.....but assured her that we were just fine. She thought that Grandpa’s big boat would be better for rescue; she’s no doubt correct as ever since it arrived on the scene, our torrential rains have increased up here.......I do call it Noah’s Ark. No school this week ; it was supposed to begin.
Brattleboro was flooded, Waterbury, plus many other towns.............but across our Bennington border into the farmlands around Albany, N.Y. they are also devastated with flooding, bridges washed out, N.Y. Thruway closed in certain sections..........same thing re the cows and barns floating down the rivers, people stranded on second floor and third floors of their homes........(big farmhouses), ...........just devastating flooding up this way.
Dams breaking, threat of others that are weakened. I believe I just heard that 265 Vermont “state roads” are damaged. Some towns isolated.
Again, we were VERY LUCKY.
As our Governor of Vermont just said, we are not used to tropical storms up here. Northeasterns and blizzards, but not hurricanes.
Our house is fine, thank goodness.............just a small patch of soggy carpeting from the torrential rains. Hubby has been sucking it up with the
rug shampooer and dumped about 6 containers so far. But it’s just damp, not ankle deep or knee deep or thigh deep like some people with flooded basements. This level is “below grade” partially, with windows........just some soggy carpet. Could be worse. There are people with water up to the ceilings of their basements...............from the flash flooding and heavy rains.
I just did fill up our large jetted tub with water.........with a pail beside it, in case we have to use the water to “flush” the toilet. A major water main break in town. They say we have water for two days and we should conserve. Hopefully, they will fix it soon. Our water supply is gravity fed from the mountains and we’ve been fine through other power outages..............but this is a water main break.
So, as we were sitting, thinking...........”This is is?”...........it really was doing damage throughout our state. A young woman was washed away in Wilmington while looking at the raging waters...............our Governor has said that Vermont’s mountains and rivers are a fact of life and do flood down into the valleys...............however, he said this is unprecedented and it’s like the COLORADO RAPIDS..........meaning the rivers’ power to destroy things......as it rushes with flood waters.
We are just beginning to hear the news of damages in Bennington...........low lying areas flooded, etc. People evacuated by boats.
Last spring, northern Vermont had flooding, but this is no doubt worse..........still danger of large trees coming down from the saturated grounds.............We had fastened all the deck furniture and situated it so that it would not BLOW AROUND.......everything is fine.......just a lot of leaves on our deck......and backyard........but so far no trees down that I can see so early in the morning. IN Florida, the palm trees sway with the winds...........up here in the north HUGE OLD TREES have fallen on homes, on cars, etc........underminded by totally saturated grounds.
LAST WEEK WE HAD AN EARTHQUAKE WHICH SOME BENNINGTON FOLKS FELT.............we did not.
In the bigger scheme of things.............we were the lucky ones. Just heard from cousin in Raleigh N.C. who had some power outages, nothing major, but her mother in law and father in law, who had thought of going to their beach home at the Outer Banks, decided not to and it’s a good thing they did not go.........the one road onto the island is totally gone..........they would have had to be evacuated by boat.