Storm Report

How fortunate we are to have electricity!  Irene was sure a wild one!   Rain, rain, rain and still more rain.  Seven inches fell here by 3 pm today and it is now 9:30 pm and I'm sure the rain gauge will show a higher number than that.  We lost our electric at 7:15 tonight and it just came back on.  I checked http://www.weather.com/ and clicked on VT happenings in different towns, watched some of the videos and look at the devastating pictures.  So many towns have deep water running down their streets. Roads are washed out etc.  You could check this site for yourself.  The TV mostly talks about NYC and doesn't show the real disastrous stuff happening here. 
The river that runs in back of our house (thankfully a long way down over an embankment) is really raging!  Muddy and just hurtiling over what is normally a 12 foot dam but now is just a furocious. racing wall of water.
The rain finally let up and then the winds came, knocking out the power.  Darkness was approaching and with the trees swaying on the edge of our backyard high above the river, I really didn't want to go out and take any pictures!  I think the river will not even crest until noontime tomorrow.  I will go out and get some pictures in the morning as I think our wind is beginning to die down now.
Through it all my daughter and my neighbor came for lunch and again for supper, bringing something to contrubute to the meal.  We took a little walk before the wind came .. in the rain with our big umbrellas. The little brook that flows down off the mountain has turned into a river that doesn't fit through the culvert under the State road at the end of our street. So it is backing up and covering a field as it waits to get on its way to the river.  This brook which is joined with another one like it a bit south of here,  flows tothe river below our house bout a quarter of a mile.  My hubby has built a nice footbridge across this brook and that now is way under water.  It usually gets damaged every spring by the ice as it goes out of the river but hope the water doesn't hurt it too badly.

 Den and his bridge in Spring

But it is the people of VT that I am so concerned for tonight.  People not so fortunate as we are, who have lost so much to this storm.  It will be a long time before this gets all cleaned up and we get back to normal.