{"id":35815,"date":"2023-07-11T06:33:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T06:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=35815"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:19","slug":"u-s-state-vermont-hits-with-heavy-rains-and-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/07\/11\/u-s-state-vermont-hits-with-heavy-rains-and-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S state Vermont hits with heavy rains and flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Swift water rescue teams and local officials across Vermont braced for more precipitation and flooding Tuesday after persistent heavy rains drenched the state and other parts of the Northeast, unleashing fast-moving waters that washed out roads, trapped residents in their homes and disrupted travel.\u00a0
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One person was killed in New York as she tried to leave her inundated house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There have been no reports of injuries or deaths related to the flooding in Vermont, according to emergency officials. But dozens of roads were closed, including many along the spine of the Green Mountains. And the National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings and advisories for much of the state from the Massachusetts line north to the Canadian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S Army Corps of Engineers said late Monday they expected two dams to release water overnight, causing \u201csevere flooding\u201d downstream likely to affect multiple towns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rescue crews from North Carolina, Michigan and Connecticut were among those helping to get to Vermont towns on Monday that had been unreachable since torrents of rain began belting the state, according to Mike Cannon of Vermont Urban Search and Rescue.\u00a0
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Swift water rescue teams in Vermont have done more than 50 rescues, mainly in the southern and central areas of the state, Vermont Emergency Management said Monday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have not seen rainfall like this since Irene,\u201d Vermont Gov. Phil said, referring to Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011.<\/strong> That storm killed six in the state, washed homes off their foundations and damaged or destroyed more than 200 bridges and 500 miles (805 kilometers) of highway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s different is that Irene lasted just about 24 hours, Scott said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is going on. We\u2019re getting just as much rain, if not more. It\u2019s going on for days. That\u2019s my concern. It\u2019s not just the initial damage. It\u2019s the wave, the second wave, and the third wave,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flooding hit Vermont\u2019s state capital, with Montpelier Town Manager Bill Fraser estimating Monday night that knee-high waters had reached much of downtown and were expected to rise a couple more feet during the night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people canoed to the Cavendish Baptist Church in Vermont, which had turned into a shelter while volunteers made cookies for firefighters working on rescues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople are doing OK. It\u2019s just stressful,\u201d shelter volunteer Amanda Gross said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vermont Rep. Kelly Pajala said she and about a half dozen others evacuated early Monday from a four-unit apartment building on the West River in Londonderry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe river was at our doorstep,\u201d said Pajala. \u201cWe threw some dry clothes and our cats into the car and drove to higher ground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slow-moving storm reached New England after hitting parts of New York and Connecticut on Sunday. Rainfall in certain parts of Vermont exceeded 8 inches (20 centimeters) by late Monday, and the National Weather Service in Burlington said more rain was forecast for Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the worst-hit places was New York\u2019s Hudson Valley, where a woman identified by police as Pamela Nugent, 43, died as she tried to escape her flooded home in the hamlet of Fort Montgomery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flash flooding dislodged boulders that rammed into the woman\u2019s house and damaged part of its wall, Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus told The Associated Press. Two other people escaped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe was trying to get through (the flooding) with her dog,\u201d Neuhaus said, \u201cand she was overwhelmed by tidal wave-type waves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point was pounded with more than 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) of rain that sent debris sliding onto some roads and washed others out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials say the storm has already wrought tens of millions of dollars in damage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNine inches of rain in this community,\u201d New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said during a briefing<\/strong> on a muddy street in Highland Falls. \u201cThey\u2019re calling this a \u20181,000 year event.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of Monday evening, several washed-out streets in Highland Falls remained impassable, leaving some residents stuck in their homes, according to Police Chief Frank Basile. The village police station itself was full of mud and leaves after being flooded with about 5 inches (13 centimeters) of water, Basile said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atmospheric scientists say destructive flooding events<\/strong>are spurred by storms forming in a warmer atmosphere, making extreme rainfall a reality. The additional warming that scientists predict is coming will only make it worse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The storm also interrupted travel. There were hundreds of flight cancellations at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports and more than 200 canceled at Boston\u2019s Logan Airport, according to the Flightaware website. Amtrak temporarily suspended service between Albany and New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Troy Caruso, who owns a golf course, five restaurants and a motel in Ludlow, Vermont, said he\u2019s been checking the damage to his properties and in the town of about 800 people. A supermarket and shopping center were \u201cwiped out,\u201d he said, as was a steakhouse and possibly a burger joint he owned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s flooded beyond belief,\u201d Caruso said of the town, noting that the 10th hole of his golf course was underwater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe just got done cleaning up these properties, flowers planted, the whole nine yards,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are going to have to start all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swift water rescue teams and local officials across Vermont braced for more precipitation and flooding Tuesday after persistent heavy rains drenched the state and other parts of the Northeast, unleashing fast-moving waters that washed out roads, trapped residents in their homes and disrupted travel.\u00a0 One person was killed in New York as she tried to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5754,8217,11941,9204,5483,10659,11017,9525,11583,13175,6537,11503,5183,5241,6190,9309,1258,11067,12617,11355,10511,5787,6601,8004,10598,11525,4054,9515,12791,851,3334,5572,9683,4766,990,10574,7968,7964,3326,11973,6406,10332,421,10716,7887,7398,6431,9110,9162,7972,11325,6065,10280,5627,5353,6584,9262,10331,8869,9085,3954,5273,594],"class_list":["post-35815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-airport","tag-army","tag-bill","tag-border","tag-boston","tag-burger","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-border","tag-capital","tag-car","tag-church","tag-connecticut","tag-debris","tag-died","tag-dog","tag-dollars","tag-england","tag-escape","tag-evacuated","tag-flight","tag-flight-cancellations","tag-flood","tag-golf","tag-heavy-rains","tag-homes","tag-injuries","tag-kelly","tag-killed","tag-manager","tag-massachusetts","tag-michigan","tag-military","tag-millions","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new-york","tag-newark","tag-nine","tag-north","tag-north-carolina","tag-one","tag-orange-county","tag-percipation","tag-police","tag-rain","tag-rainfall","tag-rains","tag-release","tag-river","tag-scientists","tag-storm","tag-street","tag-supermarket","tag-the-flash","tag-tidal-wave","tag-trapped","tag-travel","tag-united-states","tag-vermont","tag-water","tag-weather","tag-will","tag-woman","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50806,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35815\/revisions\/50806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}