that direction that was a babbling brook, and now you see what mother nature has done here. earlier we talked the one of the artists who worked here naomi goldie and this is what she had to say about her experience with this. this was actually a beautiful sculpture park twoday days ago then i got a call from my child who is 15 who said, mom, the back half of your studio just ripped away. reporter: nobody in vermont expected anything like this to happen, a tropical storm hitting something landlocked this far north. again, you can see, this is a scene repeated in so many places across the state where roads have been washed out and so many communities in vermont are dependent on one road that connects them with the rest of the state or a bridge. it is a rural place, and as you can see, lots of beautiful mountains that are now posing great challenge to rescuers who want to get food and supplies up to people who are at the end of
hurricane irene in the northeast. today, the national guard is dropping food and water to those cut off from the flooding in vermont. among those cut off is an entire wedding party stranded after a bridge collapsed. more than 100 people from this wedding will be stuck for at least four days until they have a road out. and in vermont alone, nearly 300 roads are closed and 35 bridges are impassable. a few hours ago, president obama said today that the victims of the storm have the supportf of the government. a lot of the fellow citizens are still reeling from hurricane irene and its aftermath. as a government, we are going to make sure that states and communities have the support they need so their folks can recover. nbc s rod allen is in brattleboro, vermont, which has seen some of of the worst flooding. ron, i saw the shot earlier today and it is unbelievable to see from a larger vantage point where you are standing right now. it is, tamron. this is about as bad as it g
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