⚠️ Vermont Devastated
listener: This is about 15 minutes from my house, where my doctor's office is.
The only part that is supposed to be water is the river that flows under the bridge.
Richmond, Vermont ~ from Pat Brown, VT
Richmond, Vermont (click to enlarge photos)
27 June 2023 11 July 2023
President Biden has declared a Federal State of Emergency
for ALL FOURTEEN COUNTIES in Vermont
Here's Why: WCAX Viewers' videos (click!)
(and there were more)
~ VTrans 
~ Good Morning America
~ NY Times
Downtown Montpelier ~ Trevor Hughes, USA Today
Gee.
ReplyDelete---Alan
This is terrifying on so many levels. Vermont is going to need a massive amount of help going forward. My online Vermont friends, listener and others, are still safe and I'm so glad about that, but so sorry about the many who are not safe.
ReplyDeleteThat was me, (Susan).
Delete💛 Thank you, Susan. It's been difficult. But Vermonters are hearty and are already helping and are organising in groups to help more. As one man who lost everything in Irene and now has lost much again said, You find out that every thing you have is replaceable. What matters is saving lives.
DeleteWe can't complain about having hot weather in Fresno. Ten-day forecast 100F+, Sat. Sun. Mon. 110+. Water level in the river continues to fall slowly; more sandbanks are beginning to peek out.
ReplyDelete----Alan
I give you full permission to complain about the heat! I would! And it, too, is a product of global warming. It's all one.
DeleteWell, we did choose to live where the summers are hot--but way less so than, say, Phoenix. And this Spring seemed unusually cool.
Delete---Alan
Putin Now Fears His Elites No Less Than They Fear Him [Click] From the Financial Times, which impresses me as much for the quality of its journalism as the Wall Street Journal once did.
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DeleteRussian legislator says General Missing After Mutiny Is ‘Resting’ [Click] Via Twitter.
—Alan
Birds get revenge by using anti-bird spikes in nests [Click]
ReplyDelete‘Heaviest rain ever’ causes deadly floods and landslides in Japan [Click]
---Alan
Yes, we are having some small landslides in Vermont, too. One happened on the interstate and a tree landed on a minivan. I haven't heard whether anyone was injured, but the minivan did not look good. Our soils are now fully saturated with more rain and thunderstorms happening.
DeleteIn some parts of northern Japan there are layers of different soils that can slip apart easily when disturbed. Japan is largely a country of mountains and narrow river valleys with a few large floodplains--I gather that Vermont is similar. So where is one going to build?
Delete---Alan
'Vermonters, keep your guard up': Officials urge caution amid ongoing risks
ReplyDeleteVermont Life Today…
ReplyDeleteOn VT Roads on Facebook, we see posts like these:
Is there a safe way to get to Berlin from Hardwick for tomorrow?
I had to go to buck lake today and was able to drive 14 back to Montpellier from Calais and onto 89. There is one place you have to detour 14.
I guess you could say Vermonters don't just sit and say "Can't get there from here." Ha!
DeleteActually, when I had to speak with my doctor's office today, I identified that I *can* get there from here if needed. I also learned that somehow most of them were able to get to work yesterday and today. That's amazing, since the office is cut off in three directions, as well as some workaround routes!
Oh goodness, apparently I posted from my other browser earlier at 3:26pm and 3:29pm. Sorry about that! But that AnonyMouse was indeed me.
ReplyDeleteZ'allright.
Delete---Alan
Giant sloth pendants found in Brazil dated to about 26,000 years ago [Click]
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I continue to pull for Homo erectus a hundred thousand years before that.
Delete---Alan