Video: Platoon Of Guard Troops Nearly Drown In Flood Waters

Due to the rising flood waters brought on by Irene over the weekend, the levee in Manville, NJ, broke.  The water level Sunday afternoon eventually got as high as 7 or 8 feet.  It was so high, that two National Guard trucks, specially equipped to drive in such conditions, stalled and floated down the city streets.

The best part of the video...some of the soldiers couldn't swim.  Why would you send people that can't swim into a flooded city?



Your tax dollars at work, people.

Video: Irene Destroys 141 Year Old Vermont Bridge

Of all the states in the North Atlantic, Vermont appears to have received the worst of Hurricane Tropical Storm Irene.  Most of the state is under feet of water.

Sunday afternoon, the Lower Bartonsville Covered Bridge, built by Sanford Grangers in 1870, succumbed to the rising flood waters of the Williams River.



It's a sad day for the people of the Rockingham area, as well as the State of Vermont, to lose such a beautiful and historical structure.