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| Sadly my mom moved into this house two weeks before the flood |
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| Now we know it's called River Street for a reason |
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| Another house on River Street in Wallingford |
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| Our local fire house managed to escape major flooding |
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| Debris sits atop the trestle bridge next to the local fire house |
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| The trestle bridge next to our local fire house acted like a dam at times |
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| Debris sits in the parking lot of our local fire house |
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| Looking towards River Street and Creek Road in Wallingford |
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| Wallingford Rescue the day after Hurricane Irene paid a visit |
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| One of Wallingford's few factories surrounded by water near River Street |
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| River Street in Wallingford near the True Temper parking lot |
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| Wallingford Rescue building in the early morning hours after the deluge |
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| River Street and Creek Road converge in Wallingford |
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| Wallingford Town garage view from the backside |
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| My darling little thrift shop went from this... |
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| ...to this...after 4 feet of water inside my shop left sand everywhere |
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| The force of the water ripped the back wall off my shop |
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| My cute little thrift shop went from this... |
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| ...and this... |
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| ...to this muddy mess... |
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| ...and this soggy, disheveled heap |
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| A piece of my neighbor's fence and my shop's back wall |
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| The debris dam at the bridge next to my little shop |
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| Veggies from a local grower upstream sit in the debris dam |
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| Mill River used Rte 103 as a river bed and flowed through town |
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| This from a stream that normally trickles down our mountain |
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| The only way home the day after was on foot or 4 wheeler |
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| Looking up Centerville Road just before the old log cabin |
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| We had to hike a mile to get home |
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| Looking down Centerville Road at the old log cabin built by my mom |
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| Sugar Hill Road looking down from the top of the hill |
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| Sugar Hill Road going up around the bend |
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| Sugar Hill Road just above Seward's barn |
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| Peeking through the front door and out the back wall of my shop |
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| There will be no parking here for awhile |
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| Shop items drying out on our new sandy beach |
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| Debris built up around the river bank in my yard |
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| We now have a sandy beach in our back yard at the shop |
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| The hostas and chives survived...barely |
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| Everything was laid to rest in this huge dumpster |
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| Had to gut the shop down to the outer walls |
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| Now we're just an empty shell...in so many ways |
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| A year later remnants of Irene can still be seen around Vermont |
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| Some people lost entire homes |
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| Sometimes all we can do is move on but we're stronger for it... |
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| ...even the fragile can survive nature's mightiest blow |
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