[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

We Vermonters have been following the aftermath of "Irene" on your neck of the woods as well as our own, via Channel 10 out of Albany, New York.
Take it one day at a time. Best of luck. Mother Nature is a fickle lady.

We have family members in New Jersey near Princeton who have the worst flooding in ten years.......Vermont and New Jersey are the worst hit states.
We have relatives in North Carolina who lost the main road to their summer house on the outer banks. Stories of devastation up and down the coast.

Vermont has been devastated. Total towns isolated when bridges and roads were washed away by the powerful flood waters from streams and rivers.

Not even the Governor imagined it would wreak this much havoc on an INLAND STATE. Hurricanes are supposed to hit Florida, right? Seriously, roads that we take to go north to our daughter's are GONE. Roads to cross the mountains GONE. Rt. 9 is washed away from Bennington to Brattleboro in Wilmington, a town that remains isolated. Rt. 4 up at Killington, also destroyed. Rt. 7 from Bennington to the north , parts missing. All over the state..........I believe it's 260 state roads GONE.....bridges gone. Rt. 2, etc.
So many roads impassable as they are GONE. Even in Florida this would never happen..........unless it was the Keys.

Vermont's covered bridges flooded or floating away. Cars, cows, propane tanks, furnaces, houses, you name it, floating down rivers. People seeing towns over the border in N.Y. State swept from their foundations.
No one expected this in Vermont or N.Y. State.

Again, chin up......good luck with the clean up.

SC, thanks for the encouragement. As I mentioned previously, we are in pretty good shape compared to many many others up here. A neighbor just 3 houses away had 5 feet of water in their cellar compared to only about a foot in ours. When they pumped it out it was probably the source of some of the water in our basement. The basement is probably dry by now and our friend will be by in about an hour to relight our hot water heater. Where this adds insult to injury is in the fact that about a month ago we had our cellar floor flooded by a blockage in our drainage system. That actually caused more damage that this flood did and it took several days before we even realized it happened: can you say... mold?