Unlike the rest of the East Coast, I still have to work the next two days. But it's cool, I've got 4WD, a tow strap, a life jacket and a chainsaw. What could possibly go wrong?

Pretty sure there has to be a law against that.... state of emergency should make it be only essential personnel.. which i'm guessing you aren't.

Shut up!!

Actually, I don't think VT is quite at SOE level, but everyone is closed on Sunday erieguardless.

Unlike the rest of the East Coast, I still have to work the next two days. But it's cool, I've got 4WD, a tow strap, a life jacket and a chainsaw. What could possibly go wrong?

To make a stupid joke, or not to make one, that is the question…

While i dont really get it where the difference between "dangerous weather", and "americans cant built solid buildings+ infrastructure" is, with that kind of weather warnings, i wish you folks the best of luck!

qwert

I guess I jinxed it....

Downtown Brandon:

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Waterbury (10 min from my house)

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Route 4:

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You can see the high water mark in this pic from Waterbury:

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Downtown Waitsfield:
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There's the issue of flooding and blown down trees to worry about. If you live in a place where both can be managed simply by better infrastructure, it must look very sterile.

Not sure what kind of infrastructure could stand up to what folks are thinking is a 200 yr flood.

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Infrastructure that is built to stand up to 200a floods?

I dont know the US regulations (and the german ones also not very good), but if i remember correctly all kinds of infrastructure and buildings have to be built to certain standarts, in order to withstand various events that are deemed likely enough. Could very well be that 200a events are not deemed important enough for some small roads.
Just the same as in Japan, where noone though that an earthquake could be stronger than 8, and hit at the same time as a tsunami…

qwert

Wind is a 50 year mean recurrence interval, 100 year for critical structures like hospitals, schools, stadiums (think superdome), etc.

Flooding: 100 year. But I guess a lot of it is locally driven based on the National Flood Insurance Program charts.