Janie, I'm a city girl in southern NH. The two rivers here are big enough and were low enough that we'll probably not have flooding. Damage is mainly from a few downed trees.

As dramatic as all that footage from Brattleboro is, the lasting damage looks to be the roads. The Kancamagus highway, main route through the White Mountain National Forest, is closed. Route 9, the major route across southern Vermont, is gone in some spots, undermined in many, and has several ruined bridges. This is going to take time to fix. Aside from simple transportation, these are the main leafpeeper routes, bringing NH and Vt many millions in tourist dollars every fall (it's a weird thing to be observed by busloads of tourists speaking Japanese at the local farmstand but it pays many bills.) My apple tree still is loaded with apples, so I assume the orchards in the local towns are ok (we've been growing apples in this area for export since the early 1700s).

Maeve, I'm so glad you're ok. Any chance of getting a local logger to take the pines? Beautiful as they are, they're dangerous anywhere near a building. Around here, the understory can be oak, which will come up quickly with the pines gone and are good for a century or more before they become dangerous.