I love my state and I've never been prouder of it.

[cali]

Craig Mosher has built many a road through Vermont’s back country. So when he saw Hurricane Irene carved a gaping chasm outside Killington where Route 4 used to be, the excavator put the highway back together again.

“The state couldn’t get here, we had no phone service, and half my business was underwater,” the sleep-deprived 42-year- old Mosher said. “I jumped on my tractor and started moving rubble. Some of it was pieces of my neighbor’s house.”

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Natasha Garder, co-owner of the town’s Crazy Russian Girls bakery, said today that she had been helping coordinate food relief since the storm. She was preparing brownies and 100 loaves of bread to be delivered to Wilmington, about 20 miles east of Bennington, where her business got its start. Wilmington lost its offices and police department to the Deerfield River.

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“We’ve had some tough days without power, and people were cranky,” said Frank Law, 62, a retired computer executive from New Jersey. “Vermonters have been great. We are glad to be getting out of here.”

Mosher has been too busy to locate his two cows, which wandered off “free-grazing” after his pastureland was churned into mud. “Someone called and said, ‘Your cow dumped on my yard.’

“I told them I was a bit too busy to deal with it right away.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-31/escape-from-killington-vermont-requires-local-excavator-to-rescue-town.html

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. I'm wishing the very best to people in Vermont. Hope things get built up quickly...

and that people don't suffer too much, and not too much longer.

[geckosfeet]

2. "Your cow dumped on my yard." - now that's something you don't hear everyday.

[glowing]

5. Man, my Uncle's cows used to get loose every so often.

Stupidest animals sometimes.. I hated going thru the field and when I was little my head was about as high as the cows face.. their noses where wet and tongues ugly... and then cow patties everywhere. I hated those stupid cows when I was little... But as I grew up, appreciated their value... LOL.. child hood memories..LOL

[swilton]

3. I also wish Vermonters

the very best in rebuilding their beautiful state.

[democrank]

4. I listened to our local news tonight

with tears streaming down my face. I love my state too and couldn`t be prouder.

[Lucinda]

6. KnR Cali

That was both sad to read and awesome. I hope your state recovers quickly.