Vermont Makes Progress Repairing Roads, Bridges Following Irene

Vermont roads and bridges washed out by Hurricane Irene in August have been repaired quickly since then, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

Giant haulers capable of carrying 60 tons of stone per load are delivering the 300,000 tons of rock required to fill in the holes and build up roadbeds and embankments near the White River, the Times said in a front-page story.

Hurricane Irene ran up the East Coast in late August, slamming into Connecticut on Aug. 28 before pushing inland to Vermont, where it caused the most damage by swelling the Connecticut and White Rivers.

In the three months since, Vermont has repaired and reopened some 500 miles of damaged road, replaced a dozen bridges with temporary structures and repaired about 200 bridges, the paper reported.