First off, the results are in no way scientific and second; I have no way of knowing if they read my blog entry or if they watched the video before they voted.
About forty percent thought that the media hyped the hurricane. However, over eighty percent were from outside of New England and they didn’t witness the Tropical Storm wind and rain first hand. They didn’t see the center of their town flooded or photos of their friend houses flooded waist high in water or worried about a friend who lives in Vermont that you haven’t heard from since the Irene.
When I went up to New Hampshire for the Labor Day Weekend, many of the roads that I saw from the highway were washed out. Interstate 91 south bound was closed in Deerfield because of damage to the bridge over the Deerfield River. I was thinking about visiting my friend in Vermont, but there were signs along I-91 that said Rte. 9 westbound was closed.
Thirty percent think the budget should be cut before those whose homes were washed away get relief. However, over eighty percent are from outside of the disaster area and are sitting in a warm dry house. Of all the Republican candidates, only Rick Perry seems to have a realistic view of FEMA maybe that is because his state is always getting hit by natural disasters.
Many times I have gone out to eat with my cousins and we usually pick a restaurant in Vermont because it is kind of like midway for all of use. One of the restaurants that we want to go to was Simon Pearce in Quechee VT. This is the restaurant’s web-site (how peaceful it looks in the photo) and this is a video of it during the floods…
What is amazing is the volume of water in the gorge; this is a painting of the covered bridge just about a couple of hundred feet south of the restaurant.
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