| The History Project |
The Flood of 1927 |
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Within a few hours people had to go up on their roofs and in trees. Lights in telephones were out. At 3:00 PM on November Fourth the Winooski Bridge was completely destroyed. By the time it stopped raining on November 5th, 55 people had drowned and 18 people had died from car accidents. The Winooski River alone discharged two billion cubic feet of water into Lake Champlain. Saw mills were completely submerged in water along with houses , barns , and factories. Fred Taylor and his wife, Vermonters from Lyndon were rescued the night of the flood by a boat that they made with parts of their roof. Their kitchen table was floating about their ceiling and the next day when the water went down they came back to their home and found the table in the usual spot in the kitchen and with the sugar bowl in the middle without even a drop of water in it. My great uncle Lewis Carrara lives in North Clarendon VT, he said when the water came rushing down the mountain, the water hit the side of his house and broke all of his windows on the side of the house and broke open the door.His barn got washed away and one of his three horses drowned by getting caught in his rope. He said that "it was the worst thing he saw happen to Vermont." In the town of Essex , Vermont a reliable source gave the following account of flooding waters on route 117 also known as the "river road." The river banks were so severely over flowed that the water rose to the second story of a big brick house near the river. This incident upset the family of this home so dramatically that they decided to move from this home. The brick house still stands today in 1997. At the end of the flood scientist estimated 4,123,179,975 tons of water across Vermont . |
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by Jason Stone |
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My
history report is about the flood of 1927, the worst flood in Vermont. The flood
began on November 2,1927. when two very big storms , one from the Gulf of
Mexico and the other storm from the Great Lakes, joined over the Green
Mountains about 1 O' Clock in the afternoon. By 4:00 P.M. the next day the
water was high in the streets of the capital, by 5:15 all travel had stopped.