“Trees Were Coming Down from Everywhere!”

By Roger Turner

Linda and I were headed to Florida on March 13th, hoping that we would be able to fly out of Bradley Field before the forecasted snowstorm moved in. Our daughter Liz was coming up from Boston that day to spend a week in our house, so we felt fortunate to have somebody at home during what was projected to be a heavy snow.

Don Mills, operations supervisor for Green Mountain Power, went to his office at 2 a.m. on Tuesday and realized this storm had much heavier snow than the storm we got back in December. GMP was already prepared for a mess; conference calls with other power companies in the northeast, which essentially form a mutual aid society, resulted in an armada of service vehicles assembling in Brattleboro. “We started with crews from Quebec, Riggs-Distler, a contract outfit from Rhode Island, and Alliance crews from the Boston area. Then we had crews come in from Tennessee and New Brunswick. There was also a crew from Oklahoma,” Don told me.

In Dummerston, road foreman Lee Chamberlin had arranged for his crew to come in at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, “But when I got up at 4 there was already four inches of snow on Kipling Road and about five inches in Dummerston Center. We could keep up with it when there were no trees down, but we couldn’t keep up with it up high (way up Stickney Brook, Hill, and Sunset Lake Roads) because the snow countinud on page 10

The Views of Dummerston is a quarterly newsletter published by a group of citizen volunteers since 1990, and has non-profit status through the Dummerston Community Center. Mary Lou McBean had the original vision for and was first editor of the Views, and Gary Blomgren created the original masthead art. The current steering committee includes Roger Turner (editor), Michelle Cherrier (co-articles coordinator and calendar), Fred Lee (layout), Sara Ryan (ad coordinator), Linda Rood (co-articles coordinator), and Lee Ives Tice (mailing). We always welcome new interest in joining the committee.

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