Hurricane / Tropical Storm Irene

Weather Underground: Irene Project Path

Tropical Storm Irene..., makes landfall in New England Sunday, Aug, 28, 2011.  Communication disrupted.  Families unable to make it home due to roads being washed away.  Rumors running high.

Having grown up in VT, it makes one nauseous to see all of the pictures and videos of one's home being under feet of mud and water.  Did anyone think it would be this bad?  I think not.  Everyone was worried about the more coastal areas, which yes, did get hit, however look at the damage and tell me who got hit hard.  Timeout. It's not a matter of who got hit worse. Now it's about trying to move on from this terrible tragedy, and try to pick up the pieces of life along the way. Hopefully some pieces can be found in the mud.  Band together.  Vermonters; you are fighters! 

Something I found to be very awesome in trying to figure out if all my friends and family were okay was a Facebook page, Vermont Flooding 2011.  People helping people.  The page likes jumped from 500, 1000 within hours. It now has over 9,000 followers. People of Vermont, hold together. You are strong.

A corn field is flooded at Fairmont Farm in East Montpelier.
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Tigertown Rd Brook

 

Car Tumbling down river in Bennington, VT.  Curtsey of Youtube user Mobilady

Ottaquechee River reeking havoc on the Quechee covered bridge, real estate bldg, and Simon Pierce.

Please note that the bridge is still holding on.

For the latest updates check out the Facebook page, Vermont Flooding 2011, and twitter #vtirene

Starting of College

School has been in session for a solid two weeks now.  Yay!  I'm finally starting to settle in to the new schedule.  Sooo glad I'm taking in class courses.  What a difference from online courses.

C++ I'm finding difficult.  Talk about some deep programming.  I'm more used to xhtml, css, xml, and etc programming.  More front end.., not programming actual programs.  As class goes on I'm sure the language will come more easily.

Jazz improv is difficult in that we aren't just using the blues scale, but the chord progression in the song and playing the notes within that.  So looking at jazz in a whole different way.  But it's been fun so far.  I still really suck when my turn comes around for soloing. EEK!

Drawing is actually going good. Very surprising as I silently was super nervous about it.  This class and jazz class.  Some of the drawings I've done so far aren't too bad! Amazing.  Tomorrow will be drawing a still life of musical instruments.  Should be fun and crazy!  I'm taking my saxophone along the stand.

Something else that's exciting is that I will be riding my bike to classes! Woo! Some much needed exercise.

Talk soon