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<blockquote data-quote="Matt Lillie" data-source="post: 35007" data-attributes="member: 84">Re: Hurricane IreneVermont is devastated. Many of my friends are stranded in towns that are no longer accessible by road. I feel very fortunate to have made it home, was in Hunter, NY, doing a festival. My car was in Rutland, I live in NH. The Sunday schedule was cancelled, and the very wise decision was made to put the headliners on at noon and 1:30 Saturday and move the rest of the event indoors, so our event was over around 3:00. This allowed us to leave the site around 7, picked up my car and was home before midnight. Storm all day Sunday, and then the reports started coming in. My route home, as well as EVERY other major road in Vermont other than the interstate highways was closed in at least one section. Bridges are out, complete sections of road are gone, others are impassable due to wreckage, downed trees, powerlines, or flooded. There are downtowns under water. The pictures are unbelievable. &quot;Vermont flooding 2011&quot; on Facebook has a lot. This may not have been the apocalypse that was predicted south of here, but it is much, much worse up here than anyone could ever have imagined. The scale and scope of this disaster is truly epic for this area.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matt Lillie, post: 35007, member: 84"] Re: Hurricane Irene Vermont is devastated. Many of my friends are stranded in towns that are no longer accessible by road. I feel very fortunate to have made it home, was in Hunter, NY, doing a festival. My car was in Rutland, I live in NH. The Sunday schedule was cancelled, and the very wise decision was made to put the headliners on at noon and 1:30 Saturday and move the rest of the event indoors, so our event was over around 3:00. This allowed us to leave the site around 7, picked up my car and was home before midnight. Storm all day Sunday, and then the reports started coming in. My route home, as well as EVERY other major road in Vermont other than the interstate highways was closed in at least one section. Bridges are out, complete sections of road are gone, others are impassable due to wreckage, downed trees, powerlines, or flooded. There are downtowns under water. The pictures are unbelievable. "Vermont flooding 2011" on Facebook has a lot. This may not have been the apocalypse that was predicted south of here, but it is much, much worse up here than anyone could ever have imagined. The scale and scope of this disaster is truly epic for this area. [/QUOTE]

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