National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrator Richard Spinrad said Tuesday that 13.7 million people were under inland flooding alerts on Tuesday. Towns in southwest New Hampshire had heavy flooding and road washouts, and the Connecticut River was expected to crest above flood stage Wednesday in Hartford and towns to the south. Some communities received between 7 and 9 inches (18 centimeters and 23 centimeters) of rain. The slow-moving storm reached New England after hitting parts of New York and Connecticut on Sunday. Road crews cleared debris Tuesday, reopening Interstate 89 as it follows the Winooski River between Montpelier and Middlesex. There were fewer flood warnings and advisories than on Monday, and most were concentrated in the north of the state. “The car was washed off the roadway almost into the river,” he said.ĭozens of roads and highways were closed, including many along the spine of the Green Mountains. That included an “extremely high-risk rescue” by a visiting New Hampshire team of a person who decided to drive around a barricaded road, said Mike Cannon of Vermont Urban Search and Rescue. There have been no reports of injuries or deaths related to the flooding in Vermont, where swift-water rescue teams aided by National Guard helicopter crews have done more than 100 rescues, Vermont Emergency Management said Tuesday. One woman was swept away in New York on Monday. “I don’t know when we’ll move back, but it will certainly be awhile,” said Dooley, a 59-year-old retired teacher. A wooden pool deck had been carried about 300 feet (100 meters) by flood waters the adjacent Black River was still raging. The town’s Little League field and a new skate park were destroyed, and scores of businesses were damaged.Ĭolleen Dooley returned to her condominium complex in Ludlow Tuesday to find the grounds covered in silt and mud and the pool filled with muddy river water. The main roadway through town had yet to be fully reopened and McNamara couldn’t begin to estimate how many houses had been damaged. We’ve been here before and we will get through it.”Īmong the losses was the town’s water treatment plant. People are coming together and taking care of each other. Thankfully we got through it with no loss of life,” he said, adding the damage was worse than Tropical Storm Irene. “I talked to people today that said my house is gone. We just really took the brunt of the storm,” Ludlow Municipal Manager Brendan McNamara said, as he assessed the flood's impact around the 1,500 person town. More rain was forecast Thursday and Friday but Peter Banacos, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the state will be spared any further torrential downpours. The sun was out Tuesday and more sunshine was expected Wednesday. Phil Scott said flood waters surpassed levels seen during Tropical Storm Irene." Irene killed six people in Vermont in August 2011, washing homes off their foundations and damaging or destroying more than 200 bridges and 500 miles (805 kilometers) of highway. Building inspections will start as businesses begin cleaning up their properties. Montpelier Town Manager Bill Fraser said the dam remains a lingering concern but that the city was shifting to a recovery mode, with water receding and public works employees expected Wednesday morning to start removing mud and debris from downtown streets. Shopkeepers took stock of damaged or lost goods. Some residents of the city of 8,000 slogged their way through the waist-high water others canoed and kayaked along main streets to survey the scene. Muddy brown water from the Winooski River flowed Tuesday through the capital of Montpelier, obscuring vehicles and all but the tops of parking meters along picturesque streets lined with brick storefronts whose basements and lower floors were flooded. (AP) - A storm that dumped up to two months of rain in two days in Vermont and other parts of the Northeast brought more flooding Tuesday to communities that included the state capital, where officials said that river levels at a dam just upstream appeared to be stable.
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