Damage Around the House
Let's start with the good stuff. Unlike many people who live along the Winooski River, as well as some other rivers in other areas, our home did not suffer from any flooding. Our home is still intact, standing and in relatively good condition so that is very good news. Sheila is working from home for the foreseeable future but we expected that to happen. Montpelier was devastated due to catastrophic flooding. Sheila's office building fared relatively well through the flooding but, since the entire downtown area is in recovery mode, they don't need people driving in and parking in areas that are in full recovery mode. They would only get in the way. Consequently, Sheila will continue to work from home for the foreseeable future. On a sidenote, we've also heard of a few buildings in downtown Montpelier being condemned. This will make the recovery significantly more difficult and more prolonged. We had a couple of power outages through these storms over the pas