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Vt reopens last highway destroyed by Irene

legalskier

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After hundreds of thousands of tons of rock were hauled out and tens of thousands of man-hours were spent, Vermont celebrated the completion of the biggest single engineering challenge following the flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Irene.
Just in time for the new year, and four months after the storm hit, Route 107 between Bethel and Stockbridge was reopened Thursday. The state highway, a major east-west thoroughfare, is the last to reopen after being closed by flooding.

Read more: http://www.pantagraph.com/content/tncms/live/bgdailynews.com /news/national/vt-reopens-last-highway-destroyed-by-irene/article_2c6189b8-896f-5ee6-8cf2-3af72334292b.html#ixzz1hzIkDkvi

Woohoo!
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o3jeff

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Good to see they were able to get such a huge project done so quick. Also the mild winter so far probably helped them out tremendously.
 

thetrailboss

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And to think that I was one of the last folks to drive that stretch of road...and wisely turned around during the storm.
 
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