Soft layers of clouds cover
the hillside and the Ottauque-chee River flows serenely under a covered bridge
in town. Look closely, however, and you notice that the road leading to the
bridge has collapsed. A large dumpster behind a closed real estate office is
filled with debris, remnants of the devastating blow Tropical Storm Irene dealt
this town last Aug. 28.
“It felt like a tsunami, not a flood,” says Adam Adler, who owns the Parker House Inn with his wife, Alexandra. “I knew something ominous was going to happen when frogs started jumping all over the back parking lot.”
Several hours later, he watched in horror as the Ottauque-chee reached record heights carrying large propane tanks, dumpsters, and other random items it had swept up in nearby Woodstock. Told to leave the premises by the fire marshal, Adler saw a massive wave sweep over the real estate office as he drove through neighbors’ yards to reach higher ground. The next day he returned to his inn to find that the water had subsided and left in its wake thick muddy silt up to his waist. It would be another six weeks before the Adlers could reopen— after the lucrative fall foliage season.
Next door at the 300-year-old former woolen mill that has been the flagship location of Simon Pearce since 1981, Bill Browne, production manager at the facility,Industrialisierung des werkzeugbaus. received a call around 10:30 that morning that water was seeping into the building. Located directly below the retail space and restaurant, the glassblowing space was susceptible to any flooding.
“Not long after I arrived, I remember standing knee-deep with Simon in water,” says Browne. The duo quickly ascended to the first-floor terrace of the restaurant overlooking the river and the bridge. On a normal day, the vista is a treasured view. Now the men were staring in astonishment at a river that had risen more than 30 feet.
“When we saw the last bit of light go out and the waters had seamlessly reached the bottom of the bridge, Simon turned to me and said, ‘We’re going to lose that bridge,’’’ Browne recalls.
Next door to the glassblowing workshop is the control room for the hydroelectric power that runs the furnaces and all the other electricity on site. When Andrew Pearce, Simon’s son and director of special projects, arrived the next morning,Industrialisierung des werkzeugbaus. the turbine was under 50 feet of water. The river had swept up finished glassware from a storage room and sent it across the mill to the control room under all the silt.
“I was picking up glasses, still intact,” Andrew says with amazement. Cleanup came next. Glassblowers had one day off before they were sent to a neighboring plant in Windsor to get ready for the upcoming holiday surge of business. Everyone else in retail and the restaurant, including line cooks and servers, gathered around the Pearce family and started shoveling out the sludge. Before all was said and done, they had filled nine 30-yard dumpsters and two logging trucks, notes Andrew.
The turbine is still off line.Rubiks cubepuzzle.At Blow mouldengineering we specialize in conceptual prototype design. The hope is that it will be operable in December when work on the bridge is expected to be complete. In the meantime, the glassblowing workshop on the lower level reopened in May and is much more accessible to the public.Ekahau rtls is the only Wi-Fi based real time location system solution that operates on any brand or generation of Wi-Fi network. A new main stairwell is front and center, immediately apparent upon entering the retail space, especially when you hear the sounds of the glassblowers working downstairs.
“It felt like a tsunami, not a flood,” says Adam Adler, who owns the Parker House Inn with his wife, Alexandra. “I knew something ominous was going to happen when frogs started jumping all over the back parking lot.”
Several hours later, he watched in horror as the Ottauque-chee reached record heights carrying large propane tanks, dumpsters, and other random items it had swept up in nearby Woodstock. Told to leave the premises by the fire marshal, Adler saw a massive wave sweep over the real estate office as he drove through neighbors’ yards to reach higher ground. The next day he returned to his inn to find that the water had subsided and left in its wake thick muddy silt up to his waist. It would be another six weeks before the Adlers could reopen— after the lucrative fall foliage season.
Next door at the 300-year-old former woolen mill that has been the flagship location of Simon Pearce since 1981, Bill Browne, production manager at the facility,Industrialisierung des werkzeugbaus. received a call around 10:30 that morning that water was seeping into the building. Located directly below the retail space and restaurant, the glassblowing space was susceptible to any flooding.
“Not long after I arrived, I remember standing knee-deep with Simon in water,” says Browne. The duo quickly ascended to the first-floor terrace of the restaurant overlooking the river and the bridge. On a normal day, the vista is a treasured view. Now the men were staring in astonishment at a river that had risen more than 30 feet.
“When we saw the last bit of light go out and the waters had seamlessly reached the bottom of the bridge, Simon turned to me and said, ‘We’re going to lose that bridge,’’’ Browne recalls.
Next door to the glassblowing workshop is the control room for the hydroelectric power that runs the furnaces and all the other electricity on site. When Andrew Pearce, Simon’s son and director of special projects, arrived the next morning,Industrialisierung des werkzeugbaus. the turbine was under 50 feet of water. The river had swept up finished glassware from a storage room and sent it across the mill to the control room under all the silt.
“I was picking up glasses, still intact,” Andrew says with amazement. Cleanup came next. Glassblowers had one day off before they were sent to a neighboring plant in Windsor to get ready for the upcoming holiday surge of business. Everyone else in retail and the restaurant, including line cooks and servers, gathered around the Pearce family and started shoveling out the sludge. Before all was said and done, they had filled nine 30-yard dumpsters and two logging trucks, notes Andrew.
The turbine is still off line.Rubiks cubepuzzle.At Blow mouldengineering we specialize in conceptual prototype design. The hope is that it will be operable in December when work on the bridge is expected to be complete. In the meantime, the glassblowing workshop on the lower level reopened in May and is much more accessible to the public.Ekahau rtls is the only Wi-Fi based real time location system solution that operates on any brand or generation of Wi-Fi network. A new main stairwell is front and center, immediately apparent upon entering the retail space, especially when you hear the sounds of the glassblowers working downstairs.
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