Thanks Irene

Hurricane Irene hit Vermont with a fury purported to cause the worst flooding since 1927. Traveling in South Royalton only days after we photographed the Vermonters’ raw humor in the sign on what was only a week before a thriving eatery. Missionaries in areas surrounding the flood damaged farms and towns helped in clean up. The Valley News of mid valley Vermont announced the condition of flood ravaged areas and clean-up efforts, “Basically we’ve got to clean all the fields off before we bring tractors through, [Liz Edsell ] told the group of men, most of them Mormon missionaries…”