LINCOLN, Vt. — The capital of Vermont — the state that often tops those “best states to move to avoid climate change” lists — was, until Tuesday afternoon, mostly underwater.
Swollen by record-breaking rainfall, the Winooski River claimed nearly the entire downtown area of Montpelier late Monday.
Swift-water rescue teams helped people escape from the upper floors of apartments not far from the gold-domed State Capitol.
The receding water sloshing in our streets was ferried by storm tracks from fast-warming seas 1,000 miles south.
The storm dumped four to nine inches of rain on towns up and down the Green Mountain State, where the ground was already saturated.
Persons:
—, Vermonters
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Mountain State
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LINCOLN, Vt, Vermont, Montpelier, Monday, Ludlow, Richmond, Weston