Vermont Plans To Request Disaster Aid For Halloween Storm, An Increasingly Common Practice

Summary: Vermont is receiving $500,000 in emergency federal funds to fix roads damaged by an Oct. 31 storm , which Vermont Emergency Management estimates caused about $5 million in total damage around the state. There’s likely more federal assistance to come, as the state plans to seek a federal disaster declaration — and that process of seeking a disaster declaration after an extreme weather event has become increasingly common in recent years.