 Hi, welcome. My name is Akilah and we're about to do Akilah on the beat. I'm here with my lovely co-host Chains here with the Olivier and Today we're going to be talking about the historic flooding that's been sweeping all of Vermont We're going to talk to some people and see what they think Stay tuned Have you known anyone that's been personally affected by the floods or you yourself? Yeah, I own Hallow herb farm. It's a medicinal herb farm here at the interrail and I also work for pitchfork farm and Yeah, we've both been flooded out right now And how have you guys been able to like cope with those things or what is like the recovery process that you guys might be going through? To deal with the thunderstorm is coming this afternoon Well, we're just trying to basically get everything kind of secure as much as we can now and We did a lot of things as the flood was coming in to like get the tractors in and get all the infrastructure in as much as possible And then before the flood hit it was really fast. We had short notice So we had a lot of like volunteers and people come down and just try to harvest as much as we possibly could before the waters hit That's very devastating and I'm sorry that you were affected Do you feel like the community definitely like rally behind you and again like the communal support that was available during the floods. Yeah, there is a lot of people came out and People have been really nice like donating food and donating like water and like different things like that So it seems like the community has been really good and people have been pretty aware And now a lot of people want to help now, but we can't even really get out to our fields far enough to really assess the damage yet So we're still we're in the very beginning of recovery phase So we're just going to talk a little bit about these floods that have been happening Do you know anybody that's been personally affected by the floods? Only in minor ways luckily, so nothing major Anything you want to spill? Just events that have been canceled and people's Landscapes that have been messed up, but not their houses. Okay, and just one more question How do you feel about it? Do you feel like it may affect another just that you worked in the garden house like? Do you think it'll affect any of your business or? Just general Effects on the community at all Yeah, I think it'll affect our business a little bit, but hopefully we'll bounce back pretty quickly afterwards too So you know people have to focus on recovery and not shopping and gardening and things like that right now But they'll get back to it Have you yourselves or anybody that you know been personally affected by the floods? Yeah I actually have a friend who has a bar down in Ludlow and that should just got flooded completely It's very messed up. He's gonna have to either sell it or do something else with it But yeah, I don't know. There's been a lot of flooding up here and all global warming related, so Personally, no I haven't had too many Personal issues with the flood, but I've seen a lot of businesses just destroyed Total like sucks to see you want to see the community better Yeah, I haven't had a lot of personal issues with the floods either But I've seen like Montpelier and pictures and all the flooding there and it's terrible I hope I'm praying everybody is safe and you know, hopefully it clears out and you know with the storm coming tonight I hope everyone is getting prepared or ready for that as well because it's gonna be detrimental probably Yeah, how are you guys gonna be hunkering down for the flood that's about to come? You have some games in mind or I'm gonna try to do some deliveries Making money right now Yeah, totally if the roads aren't too bad. Yeah, isn't there there's gonna be a tornado warning up here I heard that yeah, that's never like happened in my mind with major disasters left and right Yeah, crazy. So are you guys gonna be doing working? Probably our colleges a sports center and just gonna stay in there for the whole storm Okay, well, thank you guys so much it was very nice meeting you guys and stay safe Yes, as you can see down below we have a road closed sign here at the intervail Preparing everybody for the impending thunderstorm that's gonna hit later tonight