Published: Thursday, October 27, 2005
BOLTON -- Michael Bernardine climbed back into bed about 5:30 Wednesday morning after seeing his wife off to work.The father of three thought he had at least another hour before he found whether the 8 inches of heavy, wet snow that fell overnight would close Smilie Memorial Elementary School in Bolton for the day. Instead, Bernardine found his wife, Chris Bernardine, back in their driveway in her Chevy Trailblazer. She had made it less than a mile down the road toward U.S. 2, Michael Bernardine said, before downed tree branches forced her back. She tried again before Michael Bernardine piled their children into his Jeep Cherokee and drove his wife to her nursing job at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. Dangling tree branches bounced off the Jeep like car wash brushes, Michael Bernardine said, until they reached the Winooski River valley at the foot of Notch Road. "It was green, and there was foliage in the valley," Michael Bernardine said. "Then you looked up and saw winter again."Depending on where you woke up Wednesday, Vermont was either coated in the season's first heavy snow or just soggier than it had been the day before. School was either canceled or open. Your power was on or you were in the cold and dark.
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