Jim and Jenni Belotserkovsky embrace after their house was inundated when torrential rains from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl hit central Vermont, USA, on July 10. Great Brook, a tributary of the Winooski River, undermined the house in the distance behind them.
Last night’s Deja Vu Flood of 2024 mainly spared Montpelier, Vermont, but the area along Great Brook in Plainfield, above, was devastated when the brook destroyed the road along it and roared into the houses next to it. In Barre, many of the same spots that were hit in last year’s July 10 flood were hit again in the July 10 flood of 2024, especially the areas around Second Street, Maple Avenue, and North Main. Water from torrential rains poured off the hills, the Stevens Branch backed up, turned Main Street into a river, and deposited several inches of mud in the same neighborhoods. Residents and city DPW crews were at work all day clearing away mud. Apparently there was somewhat less widespread damage inside homes this time. The sorrow and mess of last year’s flood back on a lesser scale. A new kind of mud season?
A house hangs over Great Brook in Plainfield, VT, USA, on July 11 after torrential rains from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl hit central Vermont.
Mail boxes on their posts are nearly covered by mud in Plainfield.
A flood-twisted culvert lies in front of houses in Plainfield, VT.
Plainfield, Vermont.