Sunday, September 4, 2011

Vermont Infrastructure impacts from Irene

For anyone interested in the devistation from Irene in Vermont see the website below. Remember that from about twleve hours before the storm actually hit the eye of the hurricane was targeted for Concord, NH. Around that time it took a sharp turn to the west. From the graphic, the storm traveled up the mountainous chain in the center of Vermont until it veered back east accounting for some damage near St Johnsbury and accounting for the damage in northern New Hampshire.

http://crisislanding.appspot.com/?crisis=2011_flooding_vermont

Many engineers through term contracts have been called into Vermont to help assess the damage caused by the recent storms. There are 11 communities that are still cut from surface transportation with more than 40 bridges either requiring replacement or that sustained sufficient damage to be unusable without repair. Vermont is still in the assessment stage and are currently working to determine the extent of the damag

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