<p>Snowflake, not sure why I find nothing online but from photos and videos on Facebook walls, I am seeing that there is a lot of flooding in my community and main roads shut down. </p>
<p>I don’t live in the village or by the river. However, there is a small brook that runs on my property. I just opened my door to the deck and while the brook is in the woods on my land and I can’t SEE it, it sounds like a roaring river!!! Wow. </p>
<p>NYsmile, I am so sorry to hear about your son’s new car. I’m sure he’ll realize to be thankful that it is just material damage (hope insurance covers it) and if that’s all, everything will be all right.</p>
<p>Go figure the coastal communities fared better than expected, and now reading about Vermont, and upstate NY, what a weird week this has been! Sorry to hear about Marist, sunken cars and streams become moving lakes!!! Hunker down up there!</p>
<p>My town keeps experiencing more trees going over this afternoon, as winds are still gusting 50+ mph. We also lost our water in the past hour, as the local pumping station was flooded. At 8am, we had a boil water advisory, by 5pm nothing was coming out of the taps. </p>
<p>Roads around our area are impassable. Garden State Parkway, NJ Turnpike and Rt 78 have closures due to flooding. It’s a mess. So glad we didn’t listen to Rutgers and bring D1 home after move-in yesterday!</p>
<p>We appear to be done with wind and rain - there’s rain on and off and a little wind on and off. Only about 40% of the stores in the mall were open. The grocery store was relatively quiet - the parking lot was about 1/4 full where it is normally 3/4 full on a Sunday afternoon.</p>
<p>I rarely watch TV but I think I need to turn it on. There is very little about Vermont online. I just had my daughter call me from California and say, “Mom, are you all right?” because she saw on her VT Facebook friends’ walls from our community, devastating flooding. She said the river is up on the covered bridge I go through every day. The villages in my community appear to be flooded and roads are all closed. I can’t tell any of this from the vantage point of my isolated house in the mountains, as I don’t live in the village and don’t have neighbors or anything. Supposedly this is the worst state-wide flooding in VT. </p>
<p>I guess I should turn on CNN then as I would never know this. Very weird that my kid tells me it from CA!</p>
<p>(my brother in South Jersey has been without power for 24 hours and counting)</p>
<p>I haven’t heard from her this evening. I know Rt 18 is flooded, so possibly some College Ave dorms are impacted. She’s on Douglas and on higher ground. (Rutgers has 2 campuses in Piscataway and 2-3 in New Brunswick and it takes 25 minutes to go from one end to the other, so what impacts one may not bother another). Just read on Rutgers website, Piscataway is under state of emergency and no cars are allowed on the road. </p>
<p>What’s crazy about this, is our beach house is fine and never lost power. We would consider heading there, but the roads are impassible. Public transportation in NYC metro area is still out, so it’s unlikely that Monday will be a normal work day.</p>
<p>soozievt- this is what the NYT’s just reported:</p>
<p>“For all intents and purposes, for whatever reason, Vermont is getting the full force of Irene and we’re going to be devastated with flooding,” Mr. Shumlin said. He expects the devastation to spread across the entire state of Vermont.”</p>
<p>The state had been preparing for the storm for the past four days, but the damage was worse than anticipated. “We thought the eye of the storm was going to run up the Connecticut River Valley — west of the eye receives the most rain,” he said. “The bad news for us was instead it headed up the New York-Vermont border from south to north, the result being it’s devastating to both us as well as New York State.”</p>
<p>Captain Ray Keefe of the Vermont State Police said that “epic” flooding from the pounding rain had put a number of towns in southern Vermont underwater.</p>
<p>“Many of our roads are impassable at this point,” he said, adding that Wilmington, Marlboro, Dover and Brattleboro were especially hard hit. “We are advising people to get up to the highest point of their residence because we just can’t get to then right now.”</p>
<p>“The flooding is epic right now,” he said. “We’re doing our best to help the people who need it the most.” </p>
<p>Thank you so much. Right before I saw your post…I had turned on the TV and heard that 100 roads are closed in my state (that may not sound like a lot to people in CA but that is a lot in VT!) and that every county has flooding. I saw a few photos on FB of the villages in my community under water! I think it is very bad but would never know from my house which is NOT in the village. It looks terrible. I just never went out in the drenching rain today. Which…is good because with the roads closing, I may not have gotten home. I feel badly for so many as I am not truly affected much at all. But I can’t believe how badly my community has been affected (I know very little but just from a few photos I can tell) and that my kid’s neighborhood in Brooklyn is doing better than here! Who would have thunk it based on the forecasts and doom for NYC. </p>
<p>That aside, and I really care MOST about others’ safety…I really hope the subways are up and running tomorrow for my NY daughter so her show will go on or she’ll be so upset. In the scheme of life, I realize it matters far less than the devastation others are experiencing but I still hope for her anyway.</p>
<p>Soozie, so sorry about your town. I hope you continue to stay safe in the higher elevation and then cautiously travel tomorrow. I’m watching the weather up here in NE Vermont with one eye on the news and the other on the stream behind my house.</p>
<p>Snowflake, I am personally OK (but hope the power doesn’t go out). I likely won’t go out tomorrow. I can’t find anything online about my town but I think the villages are entirely flooded and all roads shut and so it is not like I could go anywhere anyway. </p>
<p>I do have a brook on my land but my house is a lot higher from the brook in my woods on my property (not close to the house, I can’t even see it)…but it sounds like a raging river…normally there is NO sound at all).</p>
<p>Trying to talk friends who live a mile up the road from us to come over and use our garage apt. They have been out for 24hrs…even if a Category 1 , this was a big one in terms of affecting such a widespread area and populatiom</p>
<p>The storm seemed to miss my town totally! Yes, we lost some branches and trees but where I live the electricity goes out on calm, sunny days but not during this storm. That’s all good.</p>
<p>Daughter had to drive home from her summer stock in the Berkshires and had to re-route three or four times off the main highway and onto side roads. She finally gets within 5 miles of home and she can’t get to the house, too many roads are closed. It took her 40 minutes to finally find a very circuitous route home.</p>
<p>Husband is still in the city; left for the flood zone yesterday around 2 and even if he wanted to come home there is no way he could given that all the bridges are closed (Manhattan is an island afterall). He’s going to hang around until tomorrow and as soon as there’s one bridge open he’s going to grab a car service and get out of Dodge because we’re leaving for vacation on Tuesday.</p>
<p>My firm put up most essential people in a hotel over the weekend. I am sure they are partying it up tonight. </p>
<p>I thought they opened Holland up early this morning, and the bridges weren’t close because the wind wasn’t that strong. Did I hear it incorrectly on CNN?</p>