My Hometown Flooded Monday Night.

My hometown flooded Monday night.

Vermont has flooded.

My family and home are fine because the 7.8 inches of rain that fell in a day didn’t cause our house to slide of the ridge it sits on, but less than a thousand feet away roads have been washed out and homes are being condemned. Yesterday, our congressional delegation, the governor, and a FEMA representative, toured the town - focusing on the non-profit cat cafe turned hazardous waste site thanks to a basement full of red diesel fuel and the neighborhood that includes a ten story, low income, senior and disabled apartment building where the blacktop of the road lifted and peeled away in huge sheets. There is still only one route out of town to the interstate due to landslides and flooding. In every direction I can point to there are towns going through similar things. Our capitol, Montpelier, flooded causing most of the state government to shut down and move essential operations to a nearby airport. Many farms were in the path of flood waters and lost most of their crops. Vermont has the second largest population of unhoused people per capita, second to California, with many of them camping in the woods along our rivers. They have lost everything.

In short, we need help.

I gathered some resources if you need an updated news source or are able to donate.

It’s raining again.

Vermont Public

Live updates: Vermont watches for more rain three days after flooding

After days of river flooding, Vermont is beginning to shift focus to recovery. But more severe weather in the forecast has officials warning

nofavt.org

Farmer Emergency Fund | NOFA Vermont

**Farms across Vermont are experiencing catastrophic flooding this week. Consider donating to the Farmer Emergency Fund to support your neig

vermontcf.org

VT Flood Response

redcross.org

Northern New England

The American Red Cross of Northern New England - Maine, New Hampshire & Vermont is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides disa

gofundme.com

Flood Relief For Shelter Cats, organized by Kitty Korner

As many of you know, Central Vermont was recently demolished by flood waters. Unprecedente… Kitty Korner needs your support for Flood Relie

I’ve also collected some photos of the flooding and it’s aftermath

Barre, Vermont. A gray, overcast photo of a flooded town surrounded by green hills

a road covered in debris. much of the road has been washed away

as rural town flooded. the town sits in a valley and is surrounded by green mountains

landslide with an overturned truck covering a roadway

clean-up crews working of removing sludge and debris from a street in barre vermont

flooded farmland surrounded by rolling green mountains

downtown montpelier vermont. in the distance people are gathered, in the foreground a Canada goose floats past a submerged car

It’s started raining again. We may get another two inches.

Please donate if you are able and share this post to help our brave little state.

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