Emergency Management Update 7/6/17
Today was the first day since Saturday when the Emergency Operations Center was operating in more of a monitoring role rather than fully operational. The focus today for the EOC staff was continuing to organize paperwork, answer emails from the community and participate in informational sessions with local agencies. Our fire department personnel continued to review driveway assessments and assisted the Union Water Company in North Thetford. DPW continued their work in making our roads safer for local traffic and plans to focus tomorrow on cleaning culverts of the massive amounts of debris still trapped. Thetford PD kept in contact with the EOC today and the work in town today was efficient and effective. Bottled water continues to be available in the North Thetford Post Office for our residents in that village who are still under a boil water order.
Numerous questions have come in from our community about assistance. For those who have damage to their home from flooded basements etc, there are several resources that can help you. First and foremost is 211. This is a number you can call to receive information on assistance for a variety of items, and right now they have information on assistance with flooded homes. Additionally, a local organization, Upper Valley Strong has reached out and wants to help. They can coordinate volunteers to shovel mud and silt our of basements, help with removal of ruined items that were stored in the basement, disinfect, etc. The contact is Anne Goodrich ([email protected])
In addition to managing our storm issues, as a reminder, this weekend is also The Prouty. Beginning tomorrow (Friday) there will be about 100 cyclists who will be biking in town as part of The Prouty Ultimate. The route once in Thetford will be West Fairlee Road, to Route 244, to Route 5 to Route 113 over to Lyme. We expect this group to be in town in the early afternoon.
On Saturday, we expect more than 2000 cyclists in town. The new routes (due to the storm damage in the various towns) have all of the cyclists traveling north from Hanover on Route 10 and then crossing over to the Vermont side and traveling south on Route 5. All cyclists will then cross back over into Lyme and bike back to Hanover. Please be aware that Route 5 will be very congested throughout the day on Saturday. If you can avoid Route 5 and use I91 to travel North, it would be appreciated. If you do need to travel Route 5 north, please use extreme caution.
Finally, we continue to thank our community for your patience and support. This will be long recovery and we will continue to provide updates while these is this emergent need. I expect that if the work continues as is and there is no additional damage, these updates will end this weekend. Updates will be posted as needed rather than every day.
If you have questions, or need assistance, please contact [email protected]
Thank you
Emergency Management Director
Today was the first day since Saturday when the Emergency Operations Center was operating in more of a monitoring role rather than fully operational. The focus today for the EOC staff was continuing to organize paperwork, answer emails from the community and participate in informational sessions with local agencies. Our fire department personnel continued to review driveway assessments and assisted the Union Water Company in North Thetford. DPW continued their work in making our roads safer for local traffic and plans to focus tomorrow on cleaning culverts of the massive amounts of debris still trapped. Thetford PD kept in contact with the EOC today and the work in town today was efficient and effective. Bottled water continues to be available in the North Thetford Post Office for our residents in that village who are still under a boil water order.
Numerous questions have come in from our community about assistance. For those who have damage to their home from flooded basements etc, there are several resources that can help you. First and foremost is 211. This is a number you can call to receive information on assistance for a variety of items, and right now they have information on assistance with flooded homes. Additionally, a local organization, Upper Valley Strong has reached out and wants to help. They can coordinate volunteers to shovel mud and silt our of basements, help with removal of ruined items that were stored in the basement, disinfect, etc. The contact is Anne Goodrich ([email protected])
In addition to managing our storm issues, as a reminder, this weekend is also The Prouty. Beginning tomorrow (Friday) there will be about 100 cyclists who will be biking in town as part of The Prouty Ultimate. The route once in Thetford will be West Fairlee Road, to Route 244, to Route 5 to Route 113 over to Lyme. We expect this group to be in town in the early afternoon.
On Saturday, we expect more than 2000 cyclists in town. The new routes (due to the storm damage in the various towns) have all of the cyclists traveling north from Hanover on Route 10 and then crossing over to the Vermont side and traveling south on Route 5. All cyclists will then cross back over into Lyme and bike back to Hanover. Please be aware that Route 5 will be very congested throughout the day on Saturday. If you can avoid Route 5 and use I91 to travel North, it would be appreciated. If you do need to travel Route 5 north, please use extreme caution.
Finally, we continue to thank our community for your patience and support. This will be long recovery and we will continue to provide updates while these is this emergent need. I expect that if the work continues as is and there is no additional damage, these updates will end this weekend. Updates will be posted as needed rather than every day.
If you have questions, or need assistance, please contact [email protected]
Thank you
Emergency Management Director