![]() ![]() 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. Similar scenes played out in neighboring Barre and in Bridgewater, where the Ottauquechee River spilled its banks. Anne Watson, noting a parked vehicle inundated with water in Montpelier. “It’s heartbreaking because you know all these businesses are losing inventory, and this person just clearly just lost their car,” said state Sen. The flooding has already caused tens of millions of dollars in damage throughout the state. There were other signs of hope as Vermont rivers crested and flood waters receded, allowing officials to begin assessing the damage and the scope of the clean-up ahead. That is one less thing we have to have on our front burner.” We are feeling like the water going over the spillway of the dam is not an imminent threat,” Fraser said. The water in the dam is still up there but it stabilized. 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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