With all the flooding problems just south of me in the southern Maine beach towns backing up northwest to the Concord, NH area and can't help being reminded of the great flood in the MRV forcing the cancellation of the B&J Festival up at the Bush and reeking heavy damage to many areas of the valley. Any of you have some memories or stories of survival of this devastating event you can share?



At the time I was communiting from Montpelier to the valley. I worked the previous winter at the Bush but had not been hired fulltime/yearround yet so I was doing some small job contracting until I was rehired in August. I was headed to a house I had been building some massive brick steps and walkways from the owner's house to his pond. This was the first time in several years I was going to miss the B&J Festival but I had some bills to pay. Turns out I didn't miss it and was streak was still going...lol

When I got to Kenyons Hardware on Rt 100 Vermont troopers had closed the road into Waitsfield. What a site to behold! The fields on both sides of Rt 100 between Kenyons and the WT building were turned into this huge lake that looked like hot chocolate and the hay bales sealed in that white plastic were floating and bobbing like those little marshmellos you get in instant cocao. I did make it to my jobsite but the most amazing damage was done to Rt 100 going thru Granville Gulf. It looked like one of those up and down rollor coaster rides consistant more like an eathquake than a flood.

I was amazed how fast they rebuilt that road.