Tuesday, TUESDAY, October OCTOBER Now is the time to be vigilant about safety. Be extra cautious when you go outside to inspect for damage after a storm. Downed or hanging electrical wires can be hidden by trees or debris, and could be live. Never attempt to touch or move downed lines, and keep children and pets away from them. Do not touch anything power lines are touching, such as tree branches or fences.
Always assume a downed line is a live line. Call your utility company to report any outage-related problem. While we are not expecting river here, and other localized can occur. The tropical rains that the National Weather Service predicts for our area can come in short, heavy downpours. Emergency management are asking people to check the storm drains in their area and help keep them clear of leaves and debris.
For more information about the storm, go to Vermont Emergency Management at www.vem.vermont.gov or www.timesargus.com. BE SAFE TODAY 30, 2012 30, 2012 Weather A2 Lotteries A2 World A2 Nation A3 Editorial A4 Letters A4 Local A5 Obituaries A7 Sports B1-3 Scoreboard B2 Abby B4 Horoscope B4 Comics B4 Calendar B5 Movies B5 TV Listings B5 B6-7 Inside Young writers share work A8 High 65 Low 55 Over the next few days as Sandy makes its way across New England and Canada, there will be lots of stories about the su- impact on the region. Track the storm and our cover- age at timesargus.com or in our e-edition, also available at the Times Argus website. TRACK SANDY Good Morning miss all of the additional stories and photos we are providing in our electronic edition of The Times Argus. Today that includes more news and photo coverage.
Visit www.timesargus.com/ eed or call Subscriber Services at The Times Argus at 802-479-4040. -Edition VERMONT ONLINE RESOURCES For local weather forecasts: www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/Sandy/ or www.weather.gov Vermont Emergency Management: http://vem.vermont.gov VEM on Facebook: www.facebook.com/vermontemer- gencymanagement For more preparedness tips visit: http://vem.vermont.gov/ preparedness For road closures call 511 or visit www.511vt.com The following numbers should be used by the public in the circ*mstances outlined. In case of an emergency: 911 If there is damage to your home, if you see road damage, or if you need any resources: contact your town. For shelter information, evacuation information, and other disaster resources: 211 Road closures: 511 or www.511vt.com If you see a downed power line, contact your local utility. Outage information: www.vtoutages.com Sandy slams U.S.
AP PHOTO A worker clears a tree dropped by high winds prior to landfall of Hurricane Sandy in Shrewsbury, on Monday. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and markets, sending coastal residents and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. Follow the coverage online today at timesargus.com. Superstorm makes its way into New England A crewman from the U.S. Navy Virginia class attack submarine USS Mississippi pauses as he works his way to the end of the bowsprit during a sail aboard the square-rigged sailing ship HMS Bounty on Thursday off New London, Conn.
The Mississippi crew was invited on the sail by Bounty owner Robert Hansen after he toured the Navy sub base in Groton last year. The replica tall ship sank early Monday. Capt. Robin Walbridge, formerly of Montpelier, was missing. AP PHOTO ADAM CAIRA STAFF PHOTO Montpelier Public Works Department employees, from right, Rick Lee, Dan Perry and Pete Luce, unload sandbags behind the Fire Department in Montpelier on Monday in preparation for Hurricane Sandy.
By WILSON RING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTPELIER Winds up to 80 mph could be felt from southern Vermont through the Canadian bor- der as the leading edge of Hurricane Sandy arrived in the state Monday evening and overnight. Downed trees and power lines along with power outages were reported by early evening although the warn- ing period was through 3 a.m., state emergency management officials warned Monday. While Sandy expected to dump the huge amounts of rain on the state that Tropical Storm Irene did last year, rainfall of 3 to 4 inches is possible, especially in southern Vermont, bringing with it the threat of localized Sandy will turn into what we call an extra-tropical sys- tem, kind of like a giant powerful the wind is going to be tremendous and you are going to see damaging winds all the way up to the Canadian said Scott Whittier, warning coordination me- teorologist for the National Weather Service in South Burlington. The winds began to pick up Mon- day afternoon. The peak was ex- pected around 8 p.m.
Monday and Vt. braces for overnight damage By KATIE ZEZIMA and ERIN MCCLAM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. A furi- ous Hurricane Sandy began the westward lurch that forecasters feared and took dead aim at New Jersey and Delaware on Monday, washing away part of the Atlantic City boardwalk, putting the presi- dential campaign on hold and threatening to cripple Wall Street and the New York subway system with an epic surge of seawater. Gaining speed and power through the day, the storm knocked out electricity to more than 1 million people and to upend life for tens of millions more. It clobbered the ghost-town cities of the Northeast corridor, from Washington to Boston, with stinging rain and gusts of more than 60 mph.
As it drew near, Sandy moved closer to converging with two DISASTER ON HMS BOUNTY By ERIC BLAISDELL STAFF WRITER MONTPELIER Relatives of the missing captain of the HMS Bounty, the three-masted sailing ship that sank Monday morning in Hurricane Sandy, say he was born and raised in Vermont. Robin Walbridge, 63, has been the captain of the ship since 1995. His sister, Lucille Walbridge Jan- sen, said he was born in St. Johnsbury and graduated from Montpelier High School. wife, Claudia McCann, said the U.S.
Coast Guard told her that Walbridge was missing after the ship lost power, took on water and sank off the coast of North Carolina. The Coast Guard initially rescued 14 others, and one other person was missing. Late Monday the Coast Guard said that crew member, Claudene Christian, was pulled from the water unresponsive and taken to the hos- pital. Crews continued to search for Walbridge. brother was very devoted and committed (to his Walbridge Jansen said Monday.
certainly would make sure that every member Former Montpelier man missing off sunken See Storm, Page A7 See Damage, Page A7 See Ship, Page A7.
