JB, I've been to Vermont. It's beautiful, it's quaint, it has stupendous color in fall.

It's also nearly all up and down. Google 'Vermont scenery' and it will show you a ton of photos showing white homes and churches in small valleys, and the photos always seem to be taken from the top of one of the hills around the valley(s). The storm affect the whole state -- how far can you run when that much area is affected, and how fast?

I don't know a whole lot, but I do know that water runs downhill and sits in the lowest spot.

Just how would you suggest that the people move their homes?

How do the farmers move their barns in a few days? How many cows or sheep can you fit in the back of a pickup truck? How should they have saved their crops? Their haying had probably started, so how do they move all that? Where do they put it?

There was way too much water for sump pumps, so how do you get rid of it? It's already in the lowest areas, so where do you pump it to?

Entire homes and their contents are just gone. Whole sections of roads are gone. Bridges have just disappeared. They can't get into some places except with helicopters or on foot. Helicopters can't usually carry very much, backpacks even less -- do you have an alternative?

Maybe you watch too much television. In real life, problems like what has happened in Vermont don't get fixed in 30 or 60 minutes, minus commercial time.

Sue