 I'm Dora Cronin. I work for a pitchfork farm down here in the intervail, Burlington, Vermont, standing outside of a fully flooded farmland. This is what's happening right now. We first got concerned about this on Friday. We were looking at the river graphs to see what was going to happen and that was when the first reportings of a spike was shown. Having been through this before, the two owners were concerned and we weren't sure what was going to happen, but we started preemptively harvesting our most flood prone fields that day on Friday to try to prepare and stay ahead of it. Over the weekend, we were watching the graph. That really was the key, was the graph that's reports from Essex. Watching it to see what the projections were, what's going to happen. Saturday night, Saturday evening is when we realized that we were definitely going to have flood waters hit our lowest fields and that we needed to get everything out now. So Sunday, we all came down and harvested as much as we could that day, still with the expectation and assumption that not everything was going to flood. Monday is when we realized everything was going to flood and just did everything the best we could to get everything out as we could. We had a bunch of volunteers come through. I think the Interval Center did a call on social media and so many folks came and helped us get the goods out of the field in time and now we're at the banks of the Manuski right up here. The road flooded today this morning. We came in at about 9 o'clock to get our deliveries out and at that point there was already water in the road. This main road here that we're standing besides. We spent probably like two hours kind of just in our other fields looking at the waters coming in and I'd say by 1130, that's when the evacuation was called and we're all out now. Well today all of us farmers are linking back up. We're actively meeting as we speak with our canoes, our kayaks, our positive attitudes and we're going to go paddle around and to be honest that is as far ahead into the future as I can see. I'm watching the water just wondering what all this flooding is going to do the community and hoping that things chill out after a little bit. Yeah we were driving back from a work retreat up in the Mad River Valley and wanted to come by and see where the Manuski was at and it's a huge and yeah very crazy to see this much water stressful to think about all the people that have been impacted by it but yeah it's just a bizarre bizarre. My name is Noah Kass and I think being here right now it we've been around people who have been through we went through Irene in 2011 and that's an event I was not here for but better understand cycles of water and and the way that impacts communities so being here we were just around a lot of tributaries way upstream and watching the way the watershed like amasses power as it moves downhill it's like being here versus up in the watershed where there's a lot less water but still like damage. It's powerful, it's also terrifying. I think we're in a moment where it was like the f***ing hottest year on record. I'm the hottest week on record ever this last week and the changes are real and this is yeah reality for so many people. Vermont we are often really insulated so being in this moment feels yeah a little wild and and and a lot of folks are are going through this around the country in a world so yeah. Yeah I'm Jake. Yeah we just came from Warren and saw yeah how the flood impacted a bunch of the upper and mad river valley towns and like yeah those small communities that are nestled in these tiny valleys like the water is just so powerful and we're yeah we're here today just to see a spot that we come to all the time and see how it's changed after this storm so yeah it's pretty crazy. My name is Pete I'm from Burlington. Yesterday I drove to White River and back and I was watched all this incredible flooding going on through the entire Winooski River Valley. I'm now here at the dam at the Winooski Essex dam and I'm just admiring that the power of the water that's coming over this this falls. What this tells me is just how incredibly powerful human uh mother nature is and how helpless we are against it and it's very humbling.