A Vermont reservoir threatened to overwhelm a dam protecting the state's capital on Tuesday and exacerbate 'catastrophic' flooding that has already shut roadways leading out of town and trapped people in their homes.
MONTPELIER, Vermont, July 11 - A Vermont reservoir threatened to overwhelm a dam protecting the state's capital on Tuesday and exacerbate "catastrophic" flooding that has already shut roadways leading out of town and trapped people in their homes.
The North Branch converges with a second, larger branch of the Winooski near the Vermont statehouse. Downtown flooding was expected until late afternoon, the National Weather Service said. Much of the U.S. Northeast including parts of New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut have already had as much as 8 inches of rain over the last several days.
Mayor Jack McCullough told CNN the reservoir level appeared to stabilize about a foot below the overflow status for three hours. Vermont officials were calling the flooding the worst since Hurricane Irene reached the New England state as a tropical storm in 2011 and caused about $750 million in damages and seven deaths in the state.
Most of the crops at Boyd Family Farm in Wilmington, Vermont, were lost in the storm, said Janet Boyd, who owns the business along with her husband and son.
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