Nearly 8 1/2" of rain fell in St. Johnsbury on Monday night, in the course of 6 hours.
EIGHT AND A HALF INCHES. That's two months' worth of rain.
A bunch of comments on my friend's FB post about the floods: "They need to drudge (sic) the rivers!"
Sure, let's try to prevent flooding by making the rivers faster (and reducing biodiversity)!
π
As advertised, a year to the day after what the weather service calls The Great Vermont Flood of 2023, the remains of deeply anomalous #HurricaneBeryl came up this way, found a mass of unusually supersaturated air, of course lots of extra heat in the warmest year ever, and then got squeezed out like a giant wet rag along an east-west line between two fronts converging across far upstate New York and northern Vermont. Details are just coming in but there are already lots of repeat customers for destroyed town and city centers, bridges and roads, fields and farms.
βI honestly don't know how Barre will recover from two devastating floods in one yearβ
https://matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2024/07/another-big-flood-disaster-crushes.html
#VTwx #VermontFlood #VermontFlooding #ClimateDiary #CollapseDiary
Dear #ClimateDiary, the national weather service technical discussion is starting to ring alarms for rain-driven flooding later this week in northern Vermont from the remains of #HurricaneBeryl, a year to the day after historic β100-yearβ floods did major and still not entirely repaired damage in this area (including wrecking nearly every major town center in the county that tops a list of the most climate-safe in the U.S.) π
βThere are increasing indications that we could be seeing scattered if not numerous 4 to 6 inches totals, where convection or training of the moderate to heavy rainfall occurs, with isolated 6 to 8 inches amounts. Those numbers, if they do materialize, would be comparable to the flooding event we experienced almost exactly a year ago.β
One year after devastating floods hit #VT, a Vermont Public investigation reveals:
- FEMA spent $78.3M on administration vs $43M in individual assistance
- Survivors struggle with complex FEMA processes
- Local volunteer groups lack support for recovery efforts
- Vermont officials push for FEMA reforms
#VermontFlooding #DisasterRecovery #FEMA #ClimateResilienceββββββββββββββββ
#Vermont
Interviews with flood survivors, state and local officials and current and former FEMA employees reveals a pattern of administrative bloat at a federal agency that, to many Vermonters, seemed less interested in providing assistance than in finding ways to reject requests for aid.
12 years since #Irene hit #Vermont.
This field is half a mile from my old apartment, part of a farm called Hurricane Flats. They lost their entire crop to floodwater contamination.
As with the #Floods this year, Vermont was so saturated with rainwater that there was nowhere for the new rain to go. #VermontFlooding
Some of my earlier posts on the flooding as it happened if you're curious.
https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/110693076036440586
https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/110693670811073595
https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/110697259845428859
Attached: 4 images Well, downtown Montpelier sure flooded. Pics from earlier this evening. #Vermont #VT #Montpelier #VTwx #VermontFlooding #flooding #weather #wx #WeatherIsHappening
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