Flood diaries: A helper reaches for help
Plagge tells me that he is “hearing people talk about a $25,000–30,000 gap between what they are getting from insurance and what it is actually costing them. People have burned through all their savings.”
Flood diaries: The Ayers give thanks for family and a life
If anyone in Vermont had reason to panic when the Winooski River began rising on Aug. 28, it was Gus Ayers. The Waterbury resident was among the few living Vermonters to have experienced the Great Flood of 1927.
Flood Diaries: Randall Street rises again
The reappearance of axe murderers on Randall Street is a welcome sign of normalcy.
Flood Diaries: Tragedy strikes refugee family a third time
Members of a three-generation family rebuild their lives after surviving war-torn Yugoslavia, a tragic accident and now Irene.
Flood diaries: Patterson Park residents face an uncertain future
The smoke is the first thing I see. As I come down Main Street in Duxbury, I see the fire. The half-century old Patterson’s Mobile Home Park is burning.
Flood diaries: After the bucket brigades, Irene losses sink in
Liza Mackey, a senior at Harwood Union High School, arrived at her home on Randall Street in downtown Waterbury just after Irene, an unwelcome guest, left her living room.
Goodman: Vermont’s unsung hero of Hurricane Irene, WDEV Radio
As Hurricane Irene was washing away roads, covered bridges, power lines and communications in my community and elsewhere in Vermont, we frantically sought news of the calamity that was unfolding all around us. But our disaster took place outside the camera shot of the national media. For a frightening 24 hours as our rivers rampaged, Vermonters turned to an old friend for sustenance, community and lifesaving information.
