Terrifying Vermont Floods: Devastating Deluge and More Flooding Possible! 

Love and strength to the beautiful stalwart Vermonters. Thank you for this. I spent 2 weeks a year in these parts of vt for two decades. Ludlow Weston, Chester, Grafton. . Generally only a few shots of the same things were on yt. Last time with Irene lots of footage by just folks on YT was easy to find We could hear it from the folks themselves and empathize and as soon as we could we got up there to support them. This time only news clips. I love that you got personal and let them express their reality. We are coming as soon as possible. ❤

This is great coverage and extended interviews. I can just feel their shock and awe. Prayers for these folks and these business owners for recovery.

I shared my home with a coworker when her home flooded in Sumas, Washington a few years ago. We are in the cycle of floods, fires, massive tornados, increased lightening strikes. Be prepared - not scared. Have a backpack ready to go, extra water, life jackets for family and PETS. Have some cash in small bills in that backpack...

❤A Big Thank you to the gentleman that helped Lena get her bearded dragon!!!❤ And kudos to the community helping each other!! Great reporting!

I was planning a trip to Vermont for August 3 for the Calvin Coolidge Centennial. I was going to go through Londonderry, Weston and Ludlow on Route 100. I will not go now. There are so many roads out no matter which way you go. It will take months to get back to anywhere near normal. Very sad.

Great report Jonathan. It so sad to see this. Its such a beautiful and historic area. I know it has to be hard for those effected.

This is what a great report looks like, and thanks for not using the distorting panoramic view. We (Sydney & the south coast of Australia) had weeks and weeks of rain last *summer* and it was horrid. The stench of constant wet earth. Even the dog left muddy paw prints when she walked on the lawn! Then came the mould and all that entails. Stay safe!

Great teamwork

"Kind of cool in a post apocalyptic way". One of the greatest quotes of the year.

I live in New England and vacationed up and down the coast. Vermont is the most beautiful state !!! Locals take pride in their property & state. They will rebuild & regroom quickly.

What amazing coverage. I remember that 2011 flood that took out Dots in Wilmington. It was my favorite place to get chili after a day of skiing. We donated all the money we could to help get it rebuilt. Seeing this brought back some sad memories. Vermont is so, so special. I hope they're able to come back stronger.

Recently I’ve been seeing multiple small channels giving some of the best documentation’s I’ve seen in years. Thank you

Virtual high five on the dragon rescue, that guy was awesome. Great report.

Great video. I really appreciate how y'all go in and get the story.

GREAT REPORTING!!!!

Thank you for sharing this video, great reporting by the way up close and personal with the community it really gave me the feeling of being there

Hard Rain, is a great movie for you younger folks. Every time I hear of a massive flooding in a town, I end up watching Hard Rain, great movie to relate to these events of great action over real time drama..

Excellent reporting ! Much better than the " news "

I was in the same area the day this published. Montpelier is free of water. On Saturday July 14th 2023 there seemed to be a cleanup party going on downtown with people helping haul out the damaged furnishings. Most of the main roads only have minor damage. But in some places there are entire trees sitting in fields hundreds of yards from streams that are now back to normal. You can see something happened, but mostly it is well in hand. Not that they don't still need help, but the flood has mostly gone after a week. Lots of personal tragedy though, houses flooded, people dumping tons of their belongings. We saw one house where their driveway bridge survived, but the land from there to their house is gone. We saw a ski center west of Woodstock that was left buried in gravel months after Irene, but this time they already had heavy equipment digging it out. Surely to ask if you could help her grab her pet? You weren't the one intending to grab her pet?

Great coverage!

😒😒 Stay strong Vermonters! ❤ Thank you Jonathan for your efforts to deliver the news of what is occurring 😊

What makes this worse than Irene is that water appears to have no where to drain. Ponding has the potential of infectious disease to humans. Creeks and streams are too narrow, shallow, and small to retain this amount of volume of water from overflowing its banks. Vermont needs a big and bold civil engineering solution. Its either this or rebuild everything on higher ground which sounds to me like a problem larger than the flood itself. It looks like in places this raw water power can be harnessed to generate enough new power stations as a back up when it does flood in remote towns and villages. There is answer and a solution to every problem. Where is the will the time and the money to do it? I hope Vermont finds a solution that would work for other parts of the country.

I played for the Vermont Expos (Minor League Baseball) in '99 .I wish all the best for the Vermont people. From Amsterdam

Thank you for doing this.

appreciate this, great job!

Best footage I've seen. Thanks for covering this

Good work, it is amazing that why construction allowed along with river or stream right of way, which caused destruction.

Good stuff!!!

really good boots on the ground video, better than any mainstream source

You're doing an excellent job....I saw you first via the 50 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevadas and now you're in Vermont. I'm in CT...also your video camera records like being there , best I've seen ever

I'm heading there tomorrow to help with recovery efforts.

I wish I was there for Irene... I was in Florida at the time.. it's odd though... I moved away from Vermont in 1994, I moved back up here in 2012 and lived in Whitingham for awhile.. I moved back full time in 2017, and it's ironic that a few years after moving away from Arcadia Florida, the area I lived was flooded when the Peace River overflowed the banks...

Nice video

the music you choose is incredible

Vermonters are so god forsakenly chill oml.

I like your videos

We stand with you Vermont! My happy place!

I know the people in VT are resilient. These towns will def. bounce back, in fact they are as we speak.

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a thumbs up is not enough gratitude for doing a video

That is ghastly! A flood looks scary

I am from Nova Scotia Hammond Plains, we this spring we when through a wild fire that destroyed over 170 house. Just over a moth later and we saw floods like none have never seen before. My house had a stream in our back year and 4 foot water fall were there is no water pathway. We where lucky for we do not have a basement too flood. In 8 hours 256 mm of water fell, more then we would see in a summer. We had already has more rain then normal amounts already this year after having a very dry winter. We are now back in to burning bands not even a week after this. The only worming we had was flash floods with 75 mm of rain coming a day before this happened, a normal flood for use.

I didn’t know Vermont floods like this!! 😩😟😳

Welp. Shit happens. This happens all over. Sorry for your luck/loss

the combination of a vlog and journalism is going to be the next big thing

please be careful do not take any chances if you can leave get out and take your animals with you and leave

its videos like these that remind me we will face more frequent and more severe weather events in the decades to come. it will have ripple effects in the economy, supply chain and agriculture that we cannot calculate. 10's of millions of people will die as a result but we will probably turn into mad max before we try doing anything about it. this is the world my generation inherits

on a toujours construit nos routes dans les rivières , les lacs, autour, le long des rives, des cours d'eau. Ensuite on bâtis dedans!

The world has changed *Nam myoho rengekyo 🙏 pray 🌍 peace be safe*

that is unbelievable. i lived in montpelier up the hill on E State St. and that is going to really make that place into a wasteland... sad.

Well done…. Very sad to see this happen to Montpelier . I stay at the Capitol Plaza Hotel a few times a year on business. Hoping they bounce back quickly

Ecclesiastes 4:16. Malachi 1:4. Psalms 49:11

Thanks for your help biden & breny.❤

Nature is giving humans an eviction notice...No place remotely safe to live these days!

Very Sad😢 Catastrophic situation off course 😮

Give back the property to it's right full owner. There will be no peace untill the property is returned

Im from vermont but i live in europe. This is heartbreaking to watch

God bless those poor people. It’s been such a long time since I was up there. My great grandfather Mercantile store was right in downtown Ludlow. 🤔 I was just wondering how bad the flooding was in Ludlow Vermont. I wonder if my Ancestors is still buried in the Mount Pleasant cemetery or have they floated down stream

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The floods in Nova Scotia , Canada are the same right now

It's just crazy here 😢 I pray for families and business's this is so tragic otter creek is a lake makes me wonder what winter will dump on us

As a highway / bridge engineer for NYSDOT, I can tell you that we typically design our infrastructure for 100-year flood. So when 1000-year storm comes along, good luck!

I was just asking my dad and stepmom what they’d do if this flooding came to CT. We got nearly 2 1/2” inches of rain yesterday, and the ground is waterlogged. If a lot more comes, we could be in trouble too!

2:51 just google mapped that to see it dry .... ME Australia ...WOW

Chicoutimi Deluge 1996 idk if it was the worst or not but I have some family from there (they weren't there when it happen)

Poor Vt, love it.

Once the water recedes, the state needs to build up a berm by the river/creek so as to prevent it flooding next time heavy rains come about. And then... build up the areas by the homes to prevent water getting up to and into them, including some better drainage in strategic locations that is better than what already or doesn't exists.

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its bad when people are happy during post apocalyptic conditions

13:09 in the background. the building with the two metal plaques. the top plaque is the high level mark of the 1927 flood. this wasn't a once in a thousand year event. This is an event that happens more frequently than people are capable of remembering. even greater floods have happened, only.. noone survived to tell the story.

I wonder if the Weston Village is also ruined! They have such great shops. I always loved it..

Can’t believe it’s already been a month

Great reporting, camera shots are excellent. Not a fan of the music.

Im sure that the wrightville dam buffered the upstream water, preventing the brake of the 1927 record. so you cannot compare water levels downstream the dam after 1935. from what I picked up is that areas of the upper basins got (much) less rain

Lord Jesus Christ bless & protect you al

i know i'm not the only one who thought we were about to rear end tf out of that truck at 2:40

Looks like to me the government needs to come up with some money too so these people can get their house lifted, being they have so much money to give away

What a beautiful beardy.

Water World 🌎

Vermont

i dont live too far away in Massachusetts's its been one of the wettest summers i can remember.

Gold Shaw Farm has 24 hour fundraising going on

Open your history book. Go in november 1927, the way people live in that time. No train service. Tracks and bridges gone as well as many roads in an era of Ford model T. Cold late fall. Food, medicare and so many things we take for granted didn´t exist. You know what ? They struggled and after months life went normal. PBS made a decent documentary with many photographs and interviews with those citizens. You are """ lucky """ , it´s 2023. Wish you the best, your neighbor from the north.

My thoughts are as I watch your important reporting is that now the rest of the US seems to be experiencing what we on the gulf coast have been experiencing for years and definitely in my lifetime has progressed. I knew that nobody in the North would take climate change seriously until it physically reached them and so it now has in every state and hollow and mountain stream valley Or township devastatingly so we are in the same “boat”. My fear is that it’s too late to change our ways. I cringe when I see the mistake everyone is making wading through polluted waters! They can’t imagine what’s in there. Oil, gas, chemical pollutants and Bacteria. We are all having to learn the hard way. And this will be the new normal. we are exhausted here from each new event each year until I felt we needed to leave and go north. But where is there a safe place anymore anywhere? All I know is that i am currently living on the leading edge of it and my warning to everyone is to be alarmed enough to change our thinking and our ways if it’s not too late. Speaking from repeated experience it will happen again and again with alarming frequency in your lifetime. I sort of have to laugh when I read comments like Vermonters saying they need flood control and move to higher ground. I am only 20 ft above sea level so what is Vermont? Don’t think there is any higher ground from where you guys are except the alps maybe. We need better climate change legislation. That’s the only thing that will save us ultimately. Nothing will save you from three months of rainfall in a 24 hr period anywhere on earth!!

Didn't know they had volcanoes in Bangladesh.

I love how they say 1000 yr storm. Who was there then keeping track of the weather? Computer models are always wrong.

I wonder if they recently removed any dams in the area.

Funny that people who've built these towns or live in these towns right on a waterway never expect this

Lo. Peor. Esta por. Venir cuando. Las. Compuertas de los. Juicios se. Abran en los. Cielos de. Los. Cielos JESUCRISTO. Viene. Ya😮

Flood insurance must be so expensive

Berbuatnja kotoran setanjin kui digantungkan orangnja bisa merindingnja iyaLo

I have been trying to get the Deparment of the Interior to put asystem in place to elither elliminate flooding or at least minimalize it. No one listens the past 60 years of me complainging about lack of flood control. Oh well.

One in a thousand-year flood every other year now.

Really sad. But...if you live a flood zone, and keep getting flooded..why are you still there? These business's have been flooded multiple times but just keep paying their expensive insurance and getting flooded every few decades or sooner? Definition of insanity. More to come unfortunately hopefully people wise up and move to higher ground.

What is the importance of trees in the forests in this tragic time? The tree filters the air from all poisonous substances like carbon dioxide, producing oxygen to help humans exist. Carbon dioxide is as essential as oxygen; They sustain life. When there is too much of it in the air, it becomes poisonous in physical life. Carbon dioxide comes primarily from the Fossil fuel. Carbon dioxide is created when the combustion of fossil fuel in the car reaches over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. There is too much heat coming from all your vehicles. After that, it is deposited in the air from the workers going back and forth to work. Humans need to understand that whatever they do does not disappear in the air, but it stays and converts into other elements. If what you do is within the commandments of God, it will result in life, and you will live. If it is not within the commandments of God, it will result in sickness and death. The greatest threat now to human life is the sources of oxygen. Our trees are being burned down by wildfires and destroyed by illegal logging. Oxygen will get depleted. There will be a famine of food from too much heat from the sun. The food supply will not be able to sustain billions of people in the world. Human life will diminish. Your LAST HOPE to save the trees is obeying Moses's Law. What is in the Law of Moses? Man is to farm only natural food so that there may be abundant food on earth. Women have to stay home and take care of their elderly parents and become teachers of children. They cannot do this unless governments and banks set them free from all sorts of debts and give them farming land to start farming life. You can see the result of the coronavirus; men and women stayed home, pollution was disappearing in the atmosphere instantly. Leviticus 19:22-25 When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as uncircumcised. Three years it shall be as uncircumcised to you. It shall not be eaten. But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a praise to the Lord. And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase: I am the Lord your God. Above all, Mount Zion, the City of the Great King, Lord Jesus Christ, has to be rebuilt with a temple. It is the only place where the people in the world shall gather to learn about obedient life based on the Law of Moses. Isaiah 2:3 Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Lord Jesus Christ sent me, the daughter of Zion, to save His people from the end of the world of Gentiles by guiding them to the way of life as in the days of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is the only way to live a peaceful life without troubles such as natural disasters and sickness. Holy prophets of Israel prophesied my appearance on earth. Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them and carried them all the days of old. Jeremiah 6:16-19 Thus says the Lord: "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.' Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.' Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear, O earth! Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people- The fruit of their thoughts, Because they have not heeded My words nor My law, but rejected it. I am writing a book called 'The Only Way to Escape Death and Hell' by Gabriel, an angel of the Lord---Maria Riah. It is not to make me rich but to instruct His people about holy life and rebuilding the City of Lord Jesus Christ, Mount Zion, Heavenly Jerusalem. I hope in Christ; It will be published very soon. The Spirit and the bride, Daughter of Zion, Gabriel, an angel of the Lord Mount Zion Heavenly Jerusalem

strategic relocation +1?

Never ever ever ever EVER walk in flooded water. There could be animals swimming in there that could kill you and there is sewage mixed in that water. This is coming from experience as a Houstonian. Just don't so it.

I dont think they got the Federal help they need fast enough.

They will send a helicopter out for a speeding car but I live in New England and this is the first I heard of it.

Humanities reckoning is imminent