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Vermont Floods Show Limits of America’s Efforts to Adapt to Climate Change (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] BeezKnuts@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this is about 500 yards from my house. Fortunately a lot of it has receded but the road is destroyed. What isn't covered in inches of mud, is just gone. Idk how I'm supposed to get into town. All of the roads leading into any of the towns near me are closed.

The sun is now out and there genuinely isn't a single cloud in the sky for as far as I can see. The ground around my house doesn't even look wet anymore, though the lawn is completely saturated still.

My brother found a dead fish in the parking lot where he works which isn't anywhere near a source of water. That's how bad the flooding is in some places. I'm up near Newport and we don't even have it anywhere near as bad as Barre or Johnson.