Engineer takes disaster preparedness into own hands after witnessing devastating flood: 'The road was just gone'

Engineer takes disaster preparedness into own hands after witnessing devastating flood: 'The road was just gone'

Necessity is often said to be the mother of invention. Vermont engineer and hydrologist Stephen Farrington is proving that disaster can also be the impetus for creative problem-solving.  Vermont news outlet Seven Days reported that flood alert app RiverAware, created by Farrington, was released in January.  Its development started more than a decade ago, when Farrington experienced severe flooding in his community of Stockbridge caused by 2011's…