Rebuilding Middleburgh: Ten months after the 500-year flood

Members of a Volunteers in Mission team from Albany/Troy/Schenectady area work on replacing a first level floor. “My special angels are Jack and this bunch that come every Monday,” said the Rev. Carol Coltrain, pastor of Huntersland UMC, of this VIM team. PHOTOS BY CHRISTIAN VISCHI

By Christian Vischi, Special Contributor… One irony of the 2011 flooding of Middleburgh, N.Y., was that there was too much water to save a barn from fire. One remnant of the damage done by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee is the many shuttered businesses and residences in this community of about 1,500 in Schoharie County. And one spark of hope comes from a troop of Volunteers in Mission (VIM) who have traveled 50 to 75 miles each way every Monday – since day one – to repair homes in [...]

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