HARDWICK AREA – A second 100 year flood came to our area of Vermont just a year after the last one, this time dumping from just over 2.5 inches in Hardwick to 7.25 inches in Walden. The devastation seems less severe in most places, but not all. When the sun[Read More…]
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Gov. Scott Praises Recovery, then Floods Hit Again
CABOT – Water drummed steadily against the pavement last Tuesday, July 9, as Governor Phil Scott spoke in Cabot to commemorate a year since devastating floods hit Vermont. The sound brought an eerie sense of déjà vu as foreboding forecasts for the next few days rolled in and then delivered[Read More…]
Rainfall Totals
HARDWICK AREA – National Weather Service rainfall totals (in inches) for the storm beginning Wednesday, July 10 and ending Thursday, July 11 are (where several totals were listed for a single town, the highest total is shown here): Cabot 4.81 Calais 4.80 North Calais 4.50 Craftsbury 3.22 Craftsbury Common 4.17 [Read More…]
Neighbor to Neighbor Offers Flood Clean-up Supplies, Assistance
HARDWICK – The Hardwick Area Neighbor to Neighbor (NtN) group has set up an emergency supply and support center in the Hardwick Senior Center at 56 High Street, adjacent to the police station. The center will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Current inventory includes PPE coveralls, masks,[Read More…]
Cabot’s After the Flood: Street Festival & Commemoration
“I’m still in shock”: Plainfield Residents Start to Dig Out
PLAINFIELD — Walker Blackwell and Christiana Athena-Blackwell moved into their Hudson Avenue home with their newborn baby two days before last summer’s flooding began. River water filled their basement, destroying treasured books and records. When the water came this time, it was even worse. On Wednesday evening, Athena-Blackwell was eating[Read More…]
Flooding in Plainfield, July 11
Shooting with Injuries
HARDWICK – Details of a shooting today in Hardwick remain a mystery. At 3:38 p.m. the Hardwick Fire Department was toned to assist Hardwick Rescue and the DHART helicopter in setting up a landing zone at the Hazen Union fields. E1 & E2 responded to secure a safe area. DHART[Read More…]
Riverside Farm Lost Three Acres of Crops and a Bridge
HARDWICK – Flooding July 10 and 11 left East Hardwick’s Riverside Farm without the bridge that has reliably given Bruce Kaufman and Judy Jarvis access to their home and barn for 39 years. The flood lifted the bridge from its abutments and washed it away. Kaufman says the river has[Read More…]
Floods Hit Hardwick Hard, Again Damaging Key Infrastructure
HARDWICK — “We’ve lost so much,” Opie Upson said, sitting in his pickup truck in the parking lot of the Hardwick town office around midday on Friday. He looked out the window toward the Lamoille River, which was still raging under the bridge nearby. Upson, who’s the town manager, said[Read More…]
