Evelyn Richer sent these photos of the washout on Sandy Beach Road from the north side and showing the cable that is twisted and may account for some folks not having phone or cable TV service on that road. Here's what Evelyn said:

We have no phone, mom [Doris Demick, in the apartment over Evelyn and Ray's garage] has phone, the Byrd's have speratic phoneservice...all the rest of the street has phone as far as I know... but the phone line splice that's in the ditch up there looks like there could be some stretching in the line... that could be that our line is one that might be stretched?? I don't really know.  Also Marguerite has no cable but mom does.  (We have Dish and no problem)... as for the cell reception we usually have 4 to 5 bars of reception but after the big storm we lost it... thought the tower might have gotten hit or something... (any word on that?)

We haven't heard anything about the cell tower, but there were a couple of very close hits during that storm on Thursday night and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the tower was hit.

I heard from Stacy Edgar, a blog reader who lives on Clark Road in Danville (that's in the Crow Hill area, if you aren't familiar with it, not far from the St. Johnsbury and Barnet town lines). Here's what Stacy wrote:

I am in Danville on Clark Road and our dead end road was completely washed out. They made it "passable" over the last couple of days but it will wait to be rebuilt until folks find out what resources and funds will be available. In the meantime we are hoping it dries up soon since as it stands even our 4 wheel drive truck almost got stuck in the mud 3 times when my husband was moving it up to the top of th e hill as an emergency vehicle. Our road is over 1/4 mile long steep hill so it is a bit of a hike to get out. We are very fortunate to live at the top of the next hill and our property did not sustain any damage. We have had electricity this whole time and have had plenty of supplies and helpful offers from neighbors to bring stuff in if we needed anything, which we are grateful for. The town even called to check in on us when we were stuck here and the work crew has been great keeping us well informed. What a super community to live in!
I thought I would share picts of our road from our side from around 5:30 am Friday morning after the storm. They are only from the bottom side. You can only see about halfway up the road from there. I heard the culvert at the top was completely exposed with a ton of road washed out below it leaving it suspended across what used to be the road. It took the whole first day of work for the crew to get that part covered enough to get to work on the rest of the road.

Thank you, Stacy, for sending the pictures. I'm glad you were ok during the storm and are now able to move in and out on your road. Our towns will have a hard time getting things back to normal, and it's going to be very expensive. Towns will want to get the roads back in shape before the fall rain and winter snow storms begin.

I heard yesterday that in Cabot a milk truck got stuck when a bridge on the Danville Hill Road when a bridge gave way under it. Danville Hill was the route people used after the storm to by-pass Rte. 2 after it was closed because a bridge was out. It made things much more difficult to then have Danville Hill closed. I haven't heard if that is repaired or not. The mail got through to us on Saturday - we didn't have any delivery on Friday, of course. I'm listening to the scanner and the road crews are working feverishly to get roads open again. Not much of a holiday weekend for them, for sure.

I had a message to remind me about the barn dance to benefit painting the Cabot Church, and this neat poster. Click to enlarge it. I imagine a lot of people will especially want to get together with their friends and neighbors for a little fun after so many of them have had water damage to their homes and other property.

We had a call this morning from Laurie Heiden who was trying to track down their dock. Fortunately, Jack LaGue had sent pictures of a dock he'd seen hung up on that shore a few weeks ago and it turned out that was the Heiden's, so they were reunited. I'm not sure how far it had floated off, but we were happy it turned out well for them. With all the high water and winds we've had this spring, anything that floats and isn't hitched securely could be just about anywhere on the pond - or over the dam by now.

Fred got this picture early this morning after he'd just refilled the humming bird feeder. It was a busy place for a few minutes; there are several that use it and they get a little frantic whenever it's momentarily gone to be cleaned and refilled.

We are enjoying sunshine for the moment. Fred is trying to get as much of our lawn mowed as possible - we're expecting it will rain again tonight. I measured only .14 in. in my gauge this morning, and that's a break after the heavy rainfall we've been having, but when it rains a little every night, nothing gets dried out very much.