Monthly Archives: September 2011

You Still Can’t Get There From Here

Thursday afternoon I went up to Warren, Vermont in the Mad River* Valley to fetch a TR3.  I had heard that Rte 100 was open again up thru the towns of Rochester, Hancock & Granville which had been cut off … Continue reading

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Vermont Roads & The British Invasion

There are three principal East-West highways crossing the Green Mountains.  They are Vt. Rte. 9, badly damaged, which is open from Bennington to Brattleboro, but best traversed by British Invasion attendees with Land Rovers, U.S. Rte 4, completely impassable in … Continue reading

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It Wasn’t a Good Week to Visit Vermont, But,

News Update: Since this post went up Thursday, VTrans engineers have succeeded is opening up a travel lane on Vt. Rte.9 between Brattleboro and Bennington.  Also, on Saturday the Rutland Herald reported that barring any weather reversals, VTrans expects to … Continue reading

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Cleaning Up Irene

Saturday night it began to rain steadily and became much harder toward morning.  Because of our location next to East Putney Brook we had already taken some precautions, and I was still moving things up onto the downstairs work benches … Continue reading

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