. >> suarez: cavendish, hancock, pittsfield, stockbridge, strafford, and stratton were among the places hardest hit. statewide, 260 roads and 30 bridges were washed out by 11 inches of rain. >> water started coming through the front door, i knew it was getting bad. and once the walls started to break and the molding started to pop, i knew i was really in trouble. >> suarez: roads turned into rivers in upstate new york and new jersey, as well.

they are still in pittsfield, by the way. i spoke with mark a short time ago. mark, you went up to vermont for your wedding on saturday. everything was fine until irene hit. what happened? >> we had a beautiful wedding day. it was our dream wedding. we wanted a rustic wedding. we love vermont. we came here and had such a great wedding. but sunday we were having brunch with our friends and family and all of a sudden, the storm hit. everyone that came to my wedding thought they were getting out of new york and avoiding the storms, and they were thanking me for it. they were like, this is awesome. and then the storm barely touched new york and came to us. >> there are only a couple hundred people who live in pittsfield. their homes are gone, their businesses are gone. do you have enough food, water, medical supplies? people in the town and your party okay? >> we're in need of medical supplies. we have food and we have drinkable water. there is no running water because there is no power and all the water is run on electric pumps. but the only thing is that it depen

we came up here to pittsfield and had such a great wedding. but sunday we were having brunch with our friends and family, and all of a sudden the storm hit. everyone that came to my wedding thought they were getting out of new york and avoiding the storms. and they were thinking before it, this is awesome. and then the storm barely touched new york and came to us. >> there's only a couple hundred people who live in pittsfield. obviously they a lot of their homes are gone, their businesses are gone. i mean, do you guys have enough food, water, medical supplies? are people in the town or your party okay? >> we're in need of medical supplies. we have food and we have drinkable water. there's no running water because there's no power. and all the water is run on electric pumps. but the only thing is that it depends on how long we're here. they have limited resources. and we have about 60 people here that are putting a little bit of a drain on their limited sources. >> i'm looking at pictures. it looks like one road is completely cut off. basically

. >> this is a guy in pittsfield, vermont. he doesn't live there. he went there to get married. a lovely picturesque setting and, boom, hurricane irene hits. so since this wedding saturday morning, mark and 40 of their wedding party are stuck in this town of pittsfield. the bridge on one side of the town is gone and the bridge on the other is collapsed. here is mark. >> just before i got on the line with you, we were actually passing up and down supplies. we rigged up some planks to get across the river and some ladders to get to the bridge. >> to do what? where are you trying to go? >> we've been getting supplies in and out for the people on the farm and we have some things that they need and they have some things that we need. so we were moving a generator, we were getting some baby formula in and out. and it's been a little crazy but everyone has been chipping in together and pulling their resources and pulling manpower. every one of our wedding guests that is up here has been doing various tasks and chores around town. >> the newlyweds, as he explained to me, had plans to go

. >> there are only a couple hundred people who live in pittsfield. their homes are gone, their businesses are gone. do you have enough food, water, medical supplies? people in the town and your party okay? >> we're in need of medical supplies. we have food and we have drinkable water. there is no running water because there is no power and all the water is run on electric pumps. but the only thing is that it depends on how long we're here. they have limited resources. and we have 60 people here that are putting a little drain on their limited sources. >> i'm looking at pictures. it looks like one road is completely cut off. basically the roads are just ill passable out of town? >> yeah. there are several bridges down on route 100. there's a road that just caved in. there are several houses and towns that we watched floating. it has been scary. it's been equally amazing how supportive and cooperative people have been up here though. everybody is getting together. everybody is working together, eating together. making sure people are safe. we've been s

. >> suarez: cavendish, hancock, pittsfield, stockbridge, strafford, and stratton were among the places hardest hit. statewide, 260 roads and 30 bridges were washed out by 11 inches of rain. >> once the water started coming through the front door, i knew it was getting bad. and once the walls started to break and the molding started to pop, i knew i was really in trouble. >> suarez: roads turned into rivers in upstate new york and new jersey, as well. emergency crews in paterson, new jersey, rescued people from flooding that turned their homes into islands and kept coming. and in manchester, new hampshire, on monday, a man and his two daughters were found clinging to buoys after they tried to jet ski on a roiling river and the jet ski was swept away. their life jackets kept them afloat. >> the gentleman was cold, very cold, very frightened. he... he was very disappointed in himself, but he saved his own family by first having p.f.d.s on, and then keeping them all together. >> suarez: others were not so lucky: a number of deaths blamed on the storm came after its passage from drowning or