This is Rumbull Strip. I'm Erica Heilman and this is a story that I made for Vermont public.

Welcome.

It was the sound, I remember.

The sounds are the rocks tumbling, the big, big boulders tumbling down the river.

We heard this sound and we weren't standing right in front of it. You can hear that it's huge

but it's it's dampened by all that water. A sound that I I attributed to a tree

maybe falling on the place I'm thinking oh boy a tree it

smells like like like just like dirt it smells like it smells like beats or and they

everybody ran over to the wall and I couldn't see it was

dark. I think those poor cats were inside it was that was yeah it was rough. A couple of

the residents that ran over there said, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone.

That's Margie Yoder and Eli Barlow. They lived at the Heartbreak Hotel in Plainfield, Vermont. Then on July

10th of this year, on the anniversary of Vermont's 100-year flood of 2023, The state experienced another devastating flood

except in Plainfield where Eli and Margie lived it was more like a one in a

thousand year flood. Four buildings, four cars, and eight bridges washed down the

Great Brook that night, including the Heartbreak Hotel. Twelve people were living there

at the time, and they all survived. Most of their beloved

cats did not. The heartbreak was situated on Mill Street along the great

Brook in the village. It was built in 1912 and housed local mill workers who were often down on their luck, which gave it its name.

But for as long as anyone around here can remember, it's been an eight unit apartment building.

Some people lived there for months, others for years. It's been an eight unit apartment building.

Some people lived there for months,

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