Vermont wasn't built for this

 Vermont is a cool little state. For those who don't know, it was our 14th state, carved out of New York.

It typically has snowy winters and warm summers. It was very rarely subject to extreme weather, but that has changed with climate change. Hurricanes from the Atlantic usually peter out well before Vermont and typically turn up Long Island towards Massachusetts, should they still have power.

But now hurricanes have a lot more power. They start much larger from warm waters, and the East Coast Ocean is also warmer. So they don't peter out as they go up the coast. The warm weather inland often sends the remnants of these as tropical storms all the way up to Vermont.

And Vermont was not built for tropical storms. It was built for snow melt, which is much more gradual.

So, yikes.