TomDispatch: The Williams river was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on 28 August 2011. Yet the evidence was all around: sand piled high on its banks, trees still scattered as if by a giant's fist, and most obvious of all, a utilitarian temporary bridge where, for 140 years, a graceful covered bridge had spanned the water. The YouTube video of that bridge crashing into the raging river was Vermont's iconic...
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/04/connecting-dots-climate-change-crisis
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