(20 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Burke, Vermont – 14 August 2024
1. A bridge closed after flooding destroyed it
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Burke, Vermont – 14 August 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Sullivan, Burke Town Administrator:
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"The amount of property damage, the road damage, we lost the bridge on the July 10th storm. We lost our whole mountain road on the 27th. So, every time that one of the storms came, they’re hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Burke, Vermont – 1 August 2024
3. Pan of some of a group of 60 student-athletes and 40 coaches from Pennsylvania who were on the Kingdom Trails system in Vermont in a trip organized by the National Interscholastic Cycling Association
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Burke, Vermont – 14 August 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Sullivan, Burke Town Administrator:
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"Trails are a huge economic driver, you know, to the economic aspect of Burke, especially over here on the east side."
5. Side view of a bridge destroyed by floods
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Sullivan, Burke Town Administrator:
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"Yeah, it’s traumatic. It’s unbelievable the extent that it ripples out. You know, if Kingdom Trails can’t open, people cancel their reservations at the Airbnbs and at the inns. We have restaurants that are counting on all of those people coming here, and it’s just a chain event that just eventually, you know, dwindles where you have these absolutely beautiful days and you just don’t have the people here that we normally would have, if we didn’t have this devastation."
7. Signage for Kingdom Trail
8. Bikers on the street
9. An SUV with laden with four bikes
10. Various of the East Burke Market
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Burton Hinton, East Buke Market Co-owner:
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"We were having a really good summer and, when the trails closed down, things came to a bit of a screeching halt, you know. But it … it’s kind of part of the game, I mean, part of the situation with us is every … everything we rely on is weather related, whether it be skiing and, especially, Kingdom Trails."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Burke, Vermont – 1 August 2024
12. Entrance to Kingdom Trail
13. Part of a group of cyclists visiting Kingdom Trails system from Pennsylvania
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Burke, Vermont – 14 August 2024
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Abigail Long, Kingdom Trails Executive Director:
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"It wasn’t just flooding. It was consistent, constant rain for over a month last year. And so we look back at our finances last year and it’s how can we even compare those visitor numbers to what was already a loss to now another loss? And I know Kingdom Charles last year financially, we lost 100 … we took $150,000 loss last year because of that."
15. Part of a group of cyclists visiting Kingdom Trails system from Pennsylvania
16. Signage announcing that Kingdom Trails system is open following flooding in Vermont
17, Pan on a group of cyclists visiting Kingdom Trails system from Pennsylvania
STORYLINE:
Two bouts of flooding in July has hampered businesses and destinations in an economically depressed section of northeastern Vermont.
Some businesses are still closed as they continue to repair damage and others are urging visitors, who were deterred by the weather, to make the trip.
Kingdom Trails, a popular destination for mountain bikers in Burke, draws tens of thousands of visitors a year.
But the flooding that washed away roads and bridges and damaged homes and trails has deterred some visitors.
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