This is Rumbel Strip, America Hillman.

Last July, we had a huge 100-year flood here in Vermont.

It devastated our state.

Here in Callis, we had dirt roads that were so destroyed

and left holes so big that people were down there digging for gold.

Moscow Woods Road disappeared off the side of a cliff.

At the head of Singleton Road, someone put up a hand-painted sign that just said, road gone.

People from out of town were trying to get from one place to another using the GPS on their

phones, which is not a good idea in the rural parts of Vermont on a good day, but during the flood they were out there driving through rivers and up class four roads and getting stranded all over the place.

On the second day of the flood I was heading up to

Hardwick to report on the flood for Vermont public and I got as far as the end of my

driveway. My neighbor Eric was walking down the road with a Ukrainian man called Alex.

Eric told me I couldn't get out because his end of the road was a lake and the other

end was blocked by a landslide from the night before. Turns out Alex had driven his truck and a very long

trailer through the lake then up into the steepest class four section of the

road and he got stuck and he spent the night in his truck. Now they were

walking down to see if some guys working on the other end of the road could tow him

out. I figured I would join them since I wasn't getting to Hardwick anytime soon anyway and I also

figured I'd ask Alex a few questions. Where did you spend the night last night?

I sleep in a truck in small truck I not have bed in truck. I not have bad in truck and this truck not have a sleeper. Not have a sleeper.

I move a few roads and a few roads. True, a few roads and a few roads true road and this roads is closed.

This closed my GPS show me wrong way.

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