This week Vermont saw its worst flooding in decades. Peter Hirschfeld from Vermont

public spoke with NPR on Tuesday after serving the flood damage.

A poca-liptic is one word I've heard a few people use to describe what their witness

scene.

Roads were washed out, businesses were flooded, including the fire department, the police

department and city hall.

Devon Andrews was trapped on the second floor of her apartment complex in Montpelier, the

state's capital on Tuesday, and she had to be rescued by boat.

I've now evacuated with my pet, really scary, never been through anything like this before.

We're seeing obviously the worst flooding since 1992.

The waters are finally receding in Montpelier, but it will take months, possibly years, for

Vermont to fully recover from this.

Meanwhile, the south and southwest are experiencing extreme heat, with temperatures expected to

hover well above 100 degrees for several days in some areas.

We're seeing these extreme temperatures pop up in places that we didn't expect lasting

longer and getting hotter than even the most sort of sophisticated climate scientists

thought about a decade or so ago.

That is journalist Jeff Gidell, he's the author of The Heat Will Kill You First.

We know that as we continue to burn fossil fuels, our planet is getting hotter, and as

it gets hotter, it changes the dynamics of the atmosphere, which can lead to these kinds

of extreme events.

And heat waves are the clearest manifestation of that.

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