NEK July 30 Flash Flooding Response

Many areas, including St. Johnsbury, were hit with up to 8 inches of rain overnight into July 30. There is widespread damage in some areas, with flash flood warnings still in effect (with more storms on the way in the next 48 hours and rivers still yet to crest). Area officials are asking folks in hard hit areas to not leave their homes if they don’t need to due to roads out and high water. More information is at Vermont Public.

Our neighbors in the NEK will need help in the coming days to clean up from this second round of major flooding, just weeks after the July 11 floods.

The Northeast Kingdom desperately NEEDS MORE VOLUNTEERS.

Incredible volunteers have been tirelessly mucking and gutting houses for days, stretching their efforts across the Kingdom’s 2,000+ square miles. The Kingdom United Resilience & Recovery Effort is leading the volunteer efforts has a number of resources to get support (VT 211) and to report damage. Folks can sign up through bit.ly/NEKvolunteer.

NEK Organizing will add to their existing mutual aid spreadsheet for NEK towns to directly offer help to locals. Vist: https://nekorganizing.org/2024-flood-recovery/. More info on them can be found at https://www.instagram.com/nekorganizing/ or https://nekorganizing.org/

We will post more info as we get it. Please send any mutual aid information to the station manager at Llu@WGDR.org so we can get it out on the air.

Hang in there everyone!