Another year / another devastating Vermont flood
I'm breaking from the Opposable format to share these photos
One year to the day, Vermont’s small towns and cities—set along rivers before climate change made devastating rains common and severe—we flooded again. My neighboring towns, Plainfield and Barre, were among the worst hit. The immediate culprit this time was Hurricane Beryl. The exceptionally long-lived system—2 weeks old— traveled more than 6,000 miles and made three landfalls, passing through the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Bay of Campeche and the Gulf of Mexico before dumping up to 6” of rain on Vermont. The real culprits, however, are greed, apathy, and climate change. Here are some photos.
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Water can be such a devastating force. I was so hoping your area would be spared this time around! So sad and terrible…
Thank you for these. I want to stay away, so I often miss the worst of things. This lets me see my neighborhood without being a “disaster tourist.”