Northeast Floods Devastate 'Heartbroken' Farmers As Months of Labor And Crops Are Swept Away
Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletterto get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Well before it was warm enough to plant seedlings in the ground, farmer Micah Barritt began nursing crops like watermelon, eggplant and tomatoes — eventually transplanting them from his greenhouse into rich Vermont soil, hoping for a bountiful fall harvest. Within a few hours last week, those hopes were washed away when flood waters inundated the small farm, destroying a harvest with...