(12 Jul 2024)
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Plainfield, Vermont – 12 July 2024
1. Various drone shots of the remains of an eight unit apartment building that locals call the Heartbreak Hotel after flood waters floods caused by the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl pulled several of the apartments into the Great Brook waterway ++MUTE++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eli Yoder, mother lived in Heartbreak Hotel apartment building:
“I feel fortunate that my mom was able to get out of there. Every every person that lives there made it out of there. They lost a lot of pets, but the people got out of there.”
3. Various drone shots of apartment building remains ++MUTE++
4. Drone shot of destroyed Mill Street Bridge over the Great Brook waterway
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Walker Blackwell, Plainfield resident:
“Everything’s loosened up on Great Brook (waterway). So we had, almost no warning. We’re not sure what hit that bridge (Mill Street Bridge), but maybe it was the house or a couple of houses that went. There’s a few houses gone up there, so…"
6. Drone shot of destroyed Mill Street Bridge ++MUTE++
7. Various of former students of retired school Principal Owen Bradley, formerly of White River Valley Middle School- Principal, help remove debris from his home along the river
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Bradley, Flew home from California to help parents:
“You know, my dad is the principal, and so a lot of folks are former students, graduates coming out, to help out, and whatnot. So it’s, you know, and then just the town plan for this is just how we are, you know, there’s people over there helping out. Since we’re done here, we’re gonna go help everybody else out as well.”
9. Owen Bradley kisses wife Jane Bradley
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Owen Bradley, Plainfield resident:
“It doesn’t get much better than that. That your son hears that you have needs and drops everything and goes. He’s actually a school administrator, is also as well as me.”
11. Damaged vehicles
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Owen Bradley, Plainfield resident:
“This is the worst I’ve ever seen. Worst I’ve ever seen. I have been in this house since 1986 and we’ve never had water come to our front door.”
13. Various of people cleaning up
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dillon Mears, local resident:
“I think as a community, we all got to come together and, and give a hand and receiving nothing but just giving the love back that he’s given the community. And to the school of Winfield, former principal of mine K through 12. Yeah, probably. So, I was excited to jump on the opportunity and and give a hand.”
15. Various of flood damage
STORYLINE:
Recovery efforts were underway Friday across flood-ravaged parts of Vermont.
Retired school principal Owen Bradley, who lives near where Great Brook feeds the Winooski River in hard-hit Plainfield, got help from relatives and former students in his cleanup.
R aging floodwaters grew to a torrent and tore through the back of his historic brick home.
Elsewhere in Plainfield, a concrete bridge that collapsed and tumbled downstream was likely responsible for ripping off part of an apartment building with five units, said Michael Billingsley, the town’s emergency management director.
The occupant of another home was pulled through a window to safety moments before it was swept downstream, and a mobile home floated away with four pets belonging to a family that narrowly escaped, he said.
Similar stories played out across Vermont, where state swift-water teams alone rescued about 120 residents. Many more were rescued by local emergency responders, officials said.
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