Braintree, Vermont - The residents of Riford Brook Road in Braintree, Vermont are doing what they can to access the outside world.

During Sunday's storm, the river rose, taking out the only bridge into the neighborhood.    

It also washed out much of the street.

"The road doesn't even exist, all it is culverts, with nothing around them. Big rocks, trees are in road," said Bruce Tabor.

Tabor has spent the past few days checking in on his fellow neighbors.

With his truck he is barely able to make it a few miles down the road.

"We've been having meetings at 10 o'clock. Everybody gets together and sees if anybody has any needs, like any medications, ice, food," said Tabor.

To reach the other side, they have to climb ladders.

But three days after Irene came through, many say they've received no help from the government.

"Unless you got a generator, which we don't have, we don't have access to. You can't take showers, wash dishes," said Terri Kavanaugh.

Wednesday, Vermont Emergency Management officials say they've added Braintree to their list.

The river didn't just destroy roads and bridges.

It also washed away what used to be a two story home.

"We could hear it kind of crunching and next thing you know, in she went and broke up into a 100 pieces like nothing," said David Atkinson.

Atkinson had been living in his home for more than a decade.

At 70 years old, he says there is no way there is any hope of restoring it.

"I mean I lay in bed at night thinking all things that I don't have now."

But he says at least he's does have the rest of his life to look forward to.

RUTLAND, Vt. -- Vermont's largest electric utility says it could be weeks before all of its customers get their power back.

The Central Vermont Public Service Corp. says that as of Tuesday morning almost 19,000 customers remained without power. At the peak of the storm about 70,000 CVPS customers were without power.

Vermont's other utilities are reporting about 1,200 outages.

The remnants of Irene did more than just drop trees onto power lines.

Some CVPS electric substations were damaged or destroyed by flood waters and power cannot be restored in some areas until roads into the areas have been repaired.

In some areas, entire sections of the utility system will have to be rebuilt.

Vermont Statewide Totals: 19,345

By Electric Company CVPS 18,455 - GMP 639 - VEC 145 -WEC 106

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COLCHESTER, Vt. -- Vermont Emergency Management officials say they'll use helicopters to airlift food, water and supplies to flood-stricken towns that have been cut off by road and bridge washouts stemming from Hurricane Irene flooding.

Emergency Management spokesman Mark Bosma says Vermont National Guard helicopters will be heading Tuesday to Cavendish, Granville, Hancock, Killington-Mendon, Marlboro, Pittsfield, Plymouth, Rochester, Stockbridge, Strafford, Stratton and Wardsboro.

The state also plans to use special vehicles to get supplies into other towns where access is cut-off for the public but where roads may be passable for National Guard vehicles. They are Ira, Grafton, Halifax, Searsburg, Wilmington, Woodford and Woodstock.

The supplies arrived at National Guard headquarters in Colchester early Tuesday in a convoy of 30 trucks from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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