RIGHT NOW: Fly over Montpelier, where streets remain inundated near the Vermont State Capitol amid a flooding emergency.
Montpelier officials warn of potential for unprecedented damage
Montpelier has requested water rescue assets to be moved into the area, and was also moving its dispatch center to the Water Treatment Plant.“For us, this is far worse than Irene. We got water but it went up and down. There were some basements flooded but it didn’t last long,” Fraser said, comparing this flooding to the Montpelier Ice Jams in 1992. “We are completely inundated. The water is way, way higher than it ever got during Irene.
But in an update Tuesday morning, they said they no loner expect the two dams to release large amounts of water over the spillways in the next 48 hours. Water will still be released from the dams, but in smaller than expected amounts.There have been no reports of injuries or deaths related to the latest flooding in Vermont, according to state emergency officials. There was one report of a person who was swept away by flood waters in Londonderry, but that report has not been confirmed.
Vermont Rep. Kelly Pajala said she and about half dozen others had to evacuate early Monday from a four-unit apartment building on the West River in Londonderry. “As a theater, we were just starting to get back from the COVID shutdown,” Gellert said. “To have this happen right now is painfully heartbreaking.”
Ross Andrews and his wife were driving back home to Calais, Vermont, on Monday when he saw trucks parked at a 230-year-old dam with crews trying to keep it from failing. There were trees down everywhere.
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