A new way of reading the land

Now when we drive around Vermont we have a new way of reading the land... not just where the brooks and rivers ate away their banks and caused all manner of trees and boulders to fall into the water but also the roads...when one sees the following, one knows that the floods post Irene caused this change:

mangled guard rails
iron trestle bridges smashed up against the river bank
gravel on the edge of the road
tilting electric/phone polls
white rif-raf (large gravel) on the edge of the road
newly paved patches or complete segments of the road

This all is going to cost a small fortune and it is absolutely amazing that as many of our roads are up and open again. This said, I still did not try 107 from Bethel to Stockbridge today.