Editorial: Floating lead balloons

Posted on December 1, 2011 |

• Editorial

By Angelo S. Lynn

Here's a provocative idea that makes total common sense, and yet it’ll float about as well as a bunch of lead balloons.

Tim Bouton, emergency response planner for the Addison County Regional Planning Commission, was talking in general about what has been learned in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene (and before), including the general premise that roads, and some villages, should not be located in flood plains.

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