![]() Initial high readings may well be corrected at a later date. Note 4: Rain rate records are manually checked, and changed if necessary, due to occasional lag in data transmission. Note 3: Figures in brackets refer to departure from average conditions Note 2: The minimum recordable rain (the rain gauge resolution) is 0.2 mm Note 1: Rain records began in February 2009 Browse at your peril!Īlso, consider upgrading. Most of the road closures in Chittenden County, of which there were four, were in Richmond.You are using a browser (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible MSIE 6.0 Windows NT 5.1 SV1)) that is not compatible with nw3weather. There was another cluster along Vermont 15 that included Cambridge, Johnson, Morristown, Wolcott and Hardwick. Holly, Cavendish, and up to Killington and Woodstock. These included some of the towns receiving the greatest amount of rain, such as Londonderry, Weston, Ludlow, Mt. South central Vermont all around the Coolidge State Forest had the next most cluster of closed roads. The largest cluster of closures, at least a couple dozen, were centered around the Montpelier-Barre area. More than 100 road closures were still in effect by 3 p.m. Burlington International Airport reported 2.07 inches by 4:54 a.m. Richmond was next highest receiving 3.03 inches, according to independent reporters. In Chittenden County, Jericho and Bolton received 4.15 and 4.08 inches, respectively, the highest in the county. Angelo and April Fisher, Burlington Free Press Among those with 7 inches or more included Ludlow, Weston, Coolidge State Park, Bridgewater Center, Barre, Montpelier and Morrisville. The high water mark, so to speak, was in Plymouth with a report of 9.05 inches. Most of these areas make up the center counties, north to south, following the spine of the Green Mountains. Towns in six counties had reports of receiving six inches or more of rain over the two days. The National Weather Service took rain total reports from residents across the state. Farmers lost acres of crops, and vehicles at a park and ride in Richmond were all flooded. Some state parks had significant damage and were the sites of some of the rescues. ![]() Helicopters from the National Guard were also conducting evacuations in remote areas that water rescue teams weren't able to access.Īll the rail trails across the state, including the newly completed 93-mile Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, were closed due to flood damage. “īy mid-morning Vermont Emergency Management said swift water rescue teams from Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and North Carolina had performed more than 100 rescues across the state. ![]() This was my lifelong dream shop, I finally decided to go for it and opened during Covid (I believe I signed my lease a few weeks before Covid began but decided to move forward despite it) - business has been especially slow this last spring and the shop has been barely hanging on - those photos make me realize this is likely the end of Minikin. She couldn’t pass the floodwaters to see her shop, but asked a journalist to take some and send them back to her. “Seeing the photos is just awful, really,” she said later. Kelly Tackett, who owns the Minikin children’s store on a State Street, said business has been slow for months and this could be the final days for her shop. Approximately 80 million people should experience an air temperature or heat index above 105 degrees through this weekend, with dozens. well into next week, with oppressive heat indices remaining across the south-central and southeast U.S. Montpelier issued a boil water notice, which included the town of Berlin. An extremely dangerous heat wave will continue over the Southwest U.S. Waters rose, flooded homes and businesses and caused damage to retail shops along the strip. Overnight, Montpelier drew focus as the Winooski River overflowed its bank and caused considerable damage to the capital city. The rain stopped pouring, but the waters continued to rise on Tuesday following a major storm and catastrophic flooding impacting much of Vermont. Communities like Londonderry, Weston and Ludlow had waters rise several feet up the sides of buildings. On Monday, reports came in about significant damage and flooding in towns along the spine of the Green Mountains. In comparison, seven Vermonters perished due to flooding from Irene. While it is unclear yet if the widespread damage will be on the scale of Irene, fortunately there were no reports of lives lost so far. Residents and officials, alike, continue to draw connections to tropical storm Irene that devastated the area 12 years ago. ![]() Emergency crews were out en force assessing the damage, making swift water rescues, and small business owners and homeowners were taking in the amount of damaged property. View Gallery: Vermont flooding photos show vacation town roads under waterĪfter two days of rain that dumped as much as nine inches on small Vermont mountain communities, sun and blue skies returned. ![]()
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