Eastern United States

President Obama’s advisers will visit Vermont, Virginia, and North Carolina to tour areas severely damaged by Hurricane Irene. Forty people have been found dead across 11 states, and more than five million homes and business are still without power.

Upstate New York and parts of Vermont were struck by rapid flooding brought on by Tropical Storm Irene over the weekend. Due to wind damage and fallen trees, downed power lines remain a problem, as do hundreds of flooded roads. In Vermont, there have already been three confirmed fatalities due to the storm – two […]

President Obama said up and down the East Coast the images are the same: roads impassable because of high water, fallen trees, and downed power lines. At least 21 people were killed, most when trees fell on cars or homes. More than 4 million people are without power. But the big problem right now is […]

In the Green Mountains just above Bristol, Vermont, the notion of home and the wild meet. Once celebrated in the poetry of Robert Frost, the re-forested hills of Vermont have found a new voice in writer John Elder and his book “Reading the Mountains of Home.”