Vermont is flooding. Not just yesterday, two weeks ago

Vermont is flooding. Not just yesterday, two weeks ago and a year before that, but experts say the state could see catastrophic events like these for the foreseeable future. Climate change is fueling stronger, more persistent storms and the state’s infrastructure is feeling the effects in villages along the Green Mountains’ rivers and streams, which carry a huge amount of water. Now, these towns are the epicenter of a flooding problem that state and federal officials are scrambling to resolve. In the meantime, many homeowners are still trying to rebuild from floods just over a year ago — considered historic at the time, now becoming the norm. A study last year in the journal Climate Change found that extreme precipitation in the Northeast will increase 52% by the end of the century.