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Yup, a hard rain fell. And some more hard rain's a-gonna fall. And then some more. A year after Tropical Storm (née Hurricane) Irene hit Vermont and changed just about everything, a few people were ...
Officials say the flooding is the worst since Hurricane Irene. In 2011, Irene killed at least 40 people in 11 states and caused more than $6.5 billion in damage.
When Tropical Storm Irene hit Vermont 10 years ago, Wilmington's downtown was left underwater. Our Adam Sullivan shows you what happened and how the town recovered.
The exterior of the Wilmington town office features the high-water marks of 2011’s Tropical Storm Irene and the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger ...
But even before Irene, Vermont was dealing with more floods. Between 1895 and 2011, the Northeast’s annual precipitation increased by more than 10 percent, greater than any other region in the U.S.
Irene, born east of the Lesser Antilles islands in the Caribbean Sea, was blamed for 48 deaths — six of them in Vermont including one in the town of Wilmington — and total U.S. damage of $15.6 billion ...
In Wilmington, an inundated Baptist church built in 1839 is closed for repairs and the beloved Dot's diner, a wood-frame building in the center of town that dates to 1832, is going to be torn down.
WILMINGTON -- Sitting about halfway between Bennington and Brattleboro, at the foot of Haystack Mountain in the Deerfield Valley, Wilmington is more than a stop along Route 9 for skiers and summer ...
WILMINGTON, Vt. — On the second anniversary of the biggest natural disaster to hit Vermont in generations, Gov. Peter Shumlin marked how far the state has come by visiting a restau… ...
Tropical Storm Irene tore through Vermont two years ago. Aug. 28, 2011 will be remembered not only as a day of destruction and devastation, but also of community resilience. Still, the recovery ...
WILMINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The owners of Dot's, a southern Vermont restaurant nearly wiped out by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene, are preparing for Hurricane Sandy to hit. As they rebuild the ...