Flooding Near And Afar Rages On

Flooding wiped out this section of road in West

Brattleboro, Vermont over the weekend. The occupants

of the car escaped with no serious injuries

Photo by Charles Kier/Brattleboro Fire Department

Flooding remains in the news, big time in Europe and to a somewhat smaller extent here in New England 

It's still raining hard in parts of Europe, terrible news for an area reeling from some of the worst flooding on record.  

At last check the death toll had risen to at least 188.

One German weather station got six inches of rain within 24 hours, obliterating a previous record for 24-hour rainfall, which had been 3.75 inches.

Renewed flooding in Europe spread to southern Germany and Austria over the weekend. 

Meanwhile, here in New England, people are beginning to clean up after areas of flooding in parts of New England.

A band of especially heavy rain moved through central Massachusetts into southwestern New Hampshire. This torrential area of rain clipped the southeastern corner of  Vermont.

At least one road was washed out and others were damaged by weekend flooding down in Brattleboro.  At one flood site, a car was caught in the flooding and collapsing roadway, but the occupants escaped. 

Reports also came in of flooded basements and streets in downtown Brattleboro. Up to five inches of rain fell on parts of southwestern New Hampshire.

In Vermont, outside the southeastern corner of Vermont, the rain was beneficial, dumping a good one to two inches of soaking water into areas that were still relatively dry.  The exception was along the Canadian border, where rainfall was quite light and did virtually nothing to dent drought conditions there. 

Scattered showers are in the forecast for the next couple of days in Vermont, but nothing heavy is on the horizon. Temperatures will stay mostly near or cooler than normal in the Green Mountain State, probably for the rest of the month.