powderfreak

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We were in the upper 50s most of last night, min of 57F. Felt nice to open the windows for a night. Now raining.

65/61. Nice evening outside for sure. Mosquitoes are absolutely ferocious though.

Ha, true. California then if it’s not charred out rust.

I think that applies in any and all cases lol. Always buy from down south.

Yup, that kid in Johnson said everyone is just piling stuff in their yards now. Note height of water compared to the fence. The first step is just get EVERYTHING out of the house and start over from there. This the second floor window they went out of later that night at 3:30am with life jackets on from their canoe.

Haha I’ll never forget that.

Just talked to one of my winter seasonal employees in Johnson… him and his roommate lost everything on their first floor. They put life jackets on at 3:30am Monday night and went out their second story window in a now or never as the water came up their living room stairs. They waded through chest high water to higher ground at his roommate’s girlfriends house. Ho-lee-fuk.

Saw this one from Orleans, VT from Monday. Nice little slide.

They've announced they are closed indefinitely. It doesn't sound like a sure thing they will reopen. The community needs that store.

Civilization has occupied vulnerable places in the past. Back in the day, being near a water source and in the warmer valley climate with good soil was the recipe to survival. This event hit those areas.

The early observations, and final rainfall totals really showed the topographical effects of this event. It was a textbook SE flow orographic event that coupled with favorable upper level dynamics. High moisture levels (high dews and PWATS), abnormally strong prolonged moisture transport, with the NWS noting closed circulations aloft over western NY as the event developed... that just funnels moisture from the Atlantic up into the terrain reaching from western CT/adjacent NY northward through the eastern slopes of the Greens. In Vermont, there was low level orographics coupling with favorable upper level lift that took this precipitation event into historic levels. Just a wave of moisture into the terrain off the Atlantic, with peak efficiency occurring on the east slopes like a blocked flow. Best lift was upstream of the barrier and in the zone of rising air out of the upper CT/White River Valley.

Photos by D.Taylor. This first one is incredible to me. That's just so much water.

Just a damage photo dump from social media. M.Davison in Hardwick.

Wife snapped a couple. But it’s really just like one massive waterway/lake all along I-89 between the Greens. Just water filled in the whole valley.

That’s the two feet above record crest right there. Johnson is in bad shape. That’s a lot of food gone to waste too.

A friend in Waterbury had the Winooski River enter their basement. Luckily they are ok and that’s as high as it got. Holy crap that’s stressful.

Some additional media out there. RT 15 in Hardwick. Waterbury, VT

Tough driving on the interstate.

Someone was saying the problem with designing infrastructure for 100+ year events is when you start to get one of those events per decade.

Lamoille River at Jeffersonville (town that Smugglers Notch Ski Area is associated with) new record high crest.

Driving I-89 along the Winooski is absolutely mind blowing.

Took a break from watching Super Troopers to check out the flooding.

It's actually already down quite a bit. It is a very fast acting river draining all of Mansfield's east side, but as soon as the rain stops it flushes out pretty fast. It was actually highest yesterday morning during peak rain rates and then came back up yesterday evening during heavy rain. But as soon as rain rates drop the flow drops. It all flows into the Winooski in the end.

That's crazy. Only 0.15" here after midnight. I thought Stratus was over 6" yesterday evening but emptied came out at 5.89" for storm total.