
The National Weather Service office in Burlington has uploaded a webinar to YouTube on the Great Vermont Flood of July 10-11, 2023.
The National Weather Service office in Burlington has uploaded a webinar to YouTube on the Great Vermont Flood of July 10-11, 2023.
The Mad River rose five feet after just one inch of rainfall last night. Super-saturated soil is to blame.
Over the past ten years, from 2012 to 2022, the annual average rainfall has declined nearly 1.25 inches to 44.23.
“We all have to take responsibility for our properties,” a FEMA official said. “The money that FEMA gives from Congress is to help kickstart that recovery process.”
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Hundred-year floods hitting once a decade simply inflict too much damage. For neither victim nor taxpayer is it sustainable.
“I was panicking. I know nobody would have gotten to me in time. The water came up a foot in the 15 minutes I was there,” Marie Baril said. Then came the Marines.
Flood-wrecked books bulldozed to the curb.
Housing, school and wastewater infrastructure was damaged statewide in last week’s flooding.
ATF was ‘managing force protection’ for Urban Search and Rescue Teams during rescue operations last week.