Irene flooding in Vermont

[darxus]

"...part or nearly all of a dozen communities remained unreachable: Bennington, Cavendish, Chester, Granville, Killington, Ludlow, Mendon, Middletown Springs, Rochester, Stockbridge and Wilmington." - AP

Would it have been this bad in New Hampshire if Irene just hadn't gone as far inland?

Comments

[beowabbit]

First, if my memory is correct, this was an unusually wide hurricane/tropical storm,...

Yes, and also unusually slow-moving (so the rain lasted a long time in any given place).