(12 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Sutton, Vermont – 11 July 2025
1. Home damaged by flooding
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Tanner, Sutton resident:
“My stepson was out here and he’s yelling to me so I came out on the porch he goes, we gotta leave, you gotta get out now.”
3. Floodwater path through Tanner’s yard
4. Close up of floodwater path through Tanner’s yard
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Tanner, Sutton resident:
“I looked out the window and everything was coming down over the road and down into our driveway. It’s probably a good two feet from the road dropping down. It looked like a waterfall.”
6. Close up of rain drops falling into puddles
7. Wide showing damage to Sutton Hollow Road
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Tanner, Sutton resident:
“I didn’t think it was that deep so I’m like well I can just walk out like I did the last time and it will be fine but yeah it wasn’t like last time it was worse.”
9. Calendar Brook Creek flowing through washed out roadway
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanika Allard, daughter of Michelle Tanner:
“I wanted to cry. It’s like third year, they’ve almost lost everything.”
11. Excavator moving dirt
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanika Allard, daughter of Michelle Tanner:
“We were standing in I believe what was part of the driveway that used to come, well, where he is, and that was the road.”
13. Excavator moving dirt
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanika Allard, daughter of Michelle Tanner:
“This year by far did the worst amount of damage with the least amount of rain, which didn’t make a whole lot of sense. I just think it came so fast that it was, it was such a flash flood.”
15. Close up of water flowing in Calendar Brook Creek
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16. Wide of Tanner looking at yard
17. Excavator moving dirt
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18. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Tanner, Sutton resident:
“Oh my god, it’s like, not again. It wouldn’t take much to wipe all that dirt out. And for the river to be back up and over.”
19. Wide showing damage to yard
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20. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Tanner, Sutton resident:
“We don’t know if the house will make it again. We’ll see what happens. We don’t want to start all over.”
21. Wide of damage to yard
STORYLINE:
Communities in rural parts of Vermont on Friday woke up once again to damaged homes and washed-out roads due to heavy rainfall and flash flooding, making it the third consecutive summer that severe floods have inundated parts of the state.
Though the severity of the storms wasn’t as widespread compared to the past two years, local officials were still surveying the extent of the damage Friday morning and shaking their heads that they were dealing with flood recovery for three years in a row.
Michelle Tanner stood Friday on what used to be her driveway, dismayed that for the third time her property was washed out by flooding. She and her family have lived in Sutton for 25 years and want to continue doing so, but fear what another flood might do.
“We don’t know if the house will make it again,” Tanner said. “We’ll see what happens. We don’t want to start all over, though I guess we are.”
Tanner’s daughter, Tanika Allard, said taking in the flood damage once again made her tear up.
“This year by far did the worst amount of damage with the least amount of rain, which didn’t make a whole lot of sense,” she said.
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