Vermont Covered Bridge Society put a list up @ http://www.vermontbridges.com/cb_damage_irene.htm listing the WCB damage as known so far

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Blenheim - NY-48-01 - Confirmed - Bridge is gone (It was the longest single span WCB in the world)

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This list is a summary from The Vermont Agency of Transportation - Joe Nelson

DRAFT Preliminary List

Queechee (ca 1970) – significant damage
Taftsville – damaged and closed (VT-14-12)
Northfield Falls – [Upper Cox Brook] severely damaged/destroyed (VT-12-11)
Bartonville – Destroyed (VT-13-11)
Hartland – Damaged (which bridge is not speified)
West Windsor – Damaged (VT- 02-01)
Grafton – [Kidder Hill] Damaged (VT-13-03)
West Woodstock – [Lincoln Bridge] Damaged (VT-14-13)
Bennington Silk Road – Damaged (VT-02-04)
West Arlington – (VT-02-01) Damaged

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One that I visited this June is

Blair - NH-05-09 - got stabbed by a tree

Blair Bridge in Campton (1870 rebuilt by Graton 1977)


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I've seen some news photos of some guy walking on the bottom side of the Bartonville bridge (I think the captions are eluding to this bridge, not specific)...... Seems it's upside down somewhere downstream......

Maybe some of the original wood can be salvaged for a re-build.

 

One of the locals said the trusses and floorboards look good.
I'm sure they'll salvage and incorporate all they can.

BTW - The trusses usually have the bulk of the graffiti so MJ + DB 4-eva 1937 or whatever will live on

EDIT - There's a nice write-up on it @ http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...e-vermont.html

Wow - looking at the picture on that page doesn't look hopefull for reusing anything substantial like whole trusses - they'll use what they can

 

Here's some Western NH pictures with my 87 Mighty Max back in 07

That's Windsor-Cornish Bridge (463' long) connecting NH & Vermont across the Connecticut River in the background.



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Old Bedell Bridge didn't make out so well...



That's a sharp truck I had with a 28+ MPG 2.0 liter engine. I shouldn't have sold it.

 

I'm up in New York doing disaster support and found this covered bridge near Salem,NY:

 

nice shot!

 

I just created a wooden covered bridges meetup group today.
There's only 2 members so far but hey, it's brand spankin new.

Here's the link to the group: http://www.meetup.com/Wooden-Covered...nd-and-beyond/

My buddy Mike has been using meetup groups for a few years and told me about it.
I said good for him but that's not for me.
I searched Google for local hiking groups the other day and a few hours later I was a member of about a dozen hiking & photography meetup groups.
It's seems like a pretty cool way to meet people with similar interests.

 

Welcome back Mowgli

 

X 2....We missed ya around here.

 

Lawless (2012)

Still around. No gas to visit bridges but cool movies happen