Episode Synopsis "Volunteers in the Northeast Kingdom begin checking in on stranded neighbors"

More than 100 residences in the Northeast Kingdom have been damaged or destroyed by flooding, and extensive damage to local roads has stranded scores of people in their homes. Volunteers hiked into some of those areas to make what was, in some cases, first physical contact with stranded households.

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