Reply #30: You are right about that... They work hard, many hats, and have

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a general sense of responsibility for one another. It would be a life lesson to send the people of this country thru VT and allow them to see their spirit, their work, their tradition, their openness for basically small town rural area, and to sit in a town hall meeting. Real life Democracy.

One of my friends literally strapped her baby to her back, went into town, and helped out with cleanup efforts, my sister is 7 mos. pregnant, and doing what she can organizing FoodBank and donation efforts... My mom for the first time in her life has 1 week off.. She's cleaning everything out at her house... she's rather stuck where she is. My dad is up at the mountain doing what he can and running around here and there. My sister's brother in-law is using his equipment to rebuild some of the smaller roads. Everyone is hands-on. Its only a 3 mos really until whatever they have gotten to will be at a stand still because then the snow season starts.. so there is a real push and thought in the back of all their heads to get as much of the tourist areas back on line along with the ski resorts to be able to bring outside money into the state. If roads are impassible, people will go out west to ski, rather than go into VT. AND they need the outside money... They are most likely going to lose out on the fall foliage season.. NO way for tourists to get lost on back dirt roads and take pictures of covered bridges when so many of these back routes will still be impassible for some time to come.