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Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

Clerks and postmasters shoveled muck out of their offices -- those who still had offices -- and wondered how to move the mail.

The state's railroad system counted miles of broken bridges and missing rights-of-way: it would obviously remain out of commission for weeks.

And once medicine, food, clothing and shelter had been provided for the flood's victims, communications and the mail were the next top problems.