This morning Scott Snyder, executive director of the American Red Cross in Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and Mercer counties, was driving to a shelter in Brattleboro, Vt., to help national news teams.

With widespread flooding in its lowlands, Vermont is enduring its worst natural disaster since 1927, according to the Burlington Free Press.

“There are difficulties in evacuation because Vermont’s communities are surrounded by mountains,” Snyder said today.

Snyder said Red Cross workers would have to wait for floodwaters to recede before they could begin to help people move back into their homes and to deliver food and cleaning supplies.

He was sent to Manhattan Friday evening to help news teams cover the story in shelters there. His relocation orders came at about 9 p.m. Sunday after it was clear that Manhattan’s low-lying areas sustained less damage than expected.

Also, three two-man crews from Central Electric Cooperative in Parker, Armstrong County, left Sunday night to help the Sussex Rural Electric Cooperative, in New Jersey, with hurricane restoration.

They are expected to be gone several days.