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Vt, nh, folks

So some of the boys were in the office this morning trying to get our severs to come up again when the city came through. EPA with sniffers because there is a fuel leak somewhere in the other buildings, fire chief looking at structural and electrical stuff. Every building needs inspections and if any of them fail, they aren't turning gas or power back on. Also its below freezing now, and most of those buildings have $$$ apartments in the upper floors. We were told that our building has structural damage from a bricked over window that got knocked out and a crack in the granite that the property manager thinks is new (which I doubt, but whatever). So, all that combined with IT shut down our attempts to restore the server, and our major client still has 80k outages 3 days later, means I might not have to loose the 20 hours of PTO I thought I was going to loose this year.

Obviously many other people have way bigger problems. My dad's trailer park in Bethel got swamped - like up to a foot or 2 of water in the mobile homes. Bethel just put out an emergency boil/conserve water order because they have a massive failure somewhere. Sunday River has already installed temp bridges on their roads and say what you will about that company, but Mountain Ops is a force to be reckoned with. Somehow they are planning to be open again this weekend.

Edit: Apparently after all that, power and gas are back. Still gonna take next week off just because.
 
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Welp, We flooded again on July 10, then again this week in Northern VT. Nuts.

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I live kinda close to otter creek, not much elevation gain from it either, thankfully where I’m at it’s mostly a large beaver swamp that seems like it could absorb a great deal of water.
 
Thatg9659 said:
I live kinda close to otter creek, not much elevation gain from it either, thankfully where I’m at it’s mostly a large beaver swamp that seems like it could absorb a great deal of water.
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That area through there has alot of wet land and really doesn't seem to flood badly. Get up in the farmland.... all bets off.
 
Clarendon fields got wiped out all the way to west Rutland last year.
 
fordguy said:
I am kind of jealous. Seems like a fun challange to try and survive

just a dumb californian talking
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For the first five minutes I guess? Then when you’re on year 5 of wondering why you have to drive 45 minutes one way when it used to take 3 minutes to get around a bridge that washed out it’s a lot less fun. It’s also less fun when the local small businesses and economy get destroyed and your town further becomes a food desert. Parts of the state never really recovered from Irene still
 
Nice little storm cell rolled through here. Crazy lightning and thunder, raining pretty good. Dropped Temps about 10 degrees so that's nice.
 
well shit, that sucks. did this always happen and I wasn't aware or are you guys just getting hammered with big storms more that the runoff can't handle?

i heard it downpouring sometime last night in CT, but other than a downed limb on a backroad it doesn't look like anything speical around here.
 
River creeks and streams occasionally run over their banks. where I lived in PA for a while there was a creek that always flooded the road and field every few years, our house was 1000 feet away and 30 feet higher so there was no worry.

Ex-girlfriend grew up in Kentucky near the Ohio river, when she was 11 She lived in a camper for a year because there was 3 feet of water in their trailer after a storm, They just moved the trailer 4 feet higher up on blocks, that didn’t seem so smart, but the water never came in during storms afterwards.

Can’t say I’ve purposely never lived in a floodplain, but I’m glad I didn’t.
 
It's happening more because once it's happened and filled the rivers with gravel, the water goes out, not up. Regulations don't let the rivers to be dug out anymore.
 
TiTRD said:
It's happening more because once it's happened and filled the rivers with gravel, the water goes out, not up. Regulations don't let the rivers to be dug out anymore.
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Eh I don't know about that. Spring snow melt rearranges rivers. It's inconvenient for us but it's part of the natural system. I think, my opinion, is we now have a instant news cycle that brings these images to us. And that is relatively new.

Much like global warming.
 
Grnjp92 said:
Eh I don't know about that. Spring snow melt rearranges rivers. It's inconvenient for us but it's part of the natural system. I think, my opinion, is we now have a instant news cycle that brings these images to us. And that is relatively new.

Much like global warming.
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Something is changing. Just a hunch.

I've redone sections of rivers in problem areas. Permits take years for fish studies, wildlife studies, rain event studies. Then you can only alter a stream under the permit for 2 months, which is the only 2 months outside of the fish migration, mating, hatching. That's July 15 to September 15.

ETA you can only do so much river in two months. That's excavation, then hauling massive blast rock to armor the stream and bank.
 
TiTRD said:
Something is changing. Just a hunch.

I've redone sections of rivers in problem areas. Permits take years for fish studies, wildlife studies, rain event studies. Then you can only alter a stream under the permit for 2 months, which is the only 2 months outside of the fish migration, mating, hatching. That's July 15 to September 15.
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Don't disagree. I mean we still keep the Mississippi flowing. And one day it's going to be ugly when it goes where it should have 100 years ago.
I.e. we can try but mother nature always wins.
 
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