Floods and storms — Vermont Permit Test
Floods and storms on the Vermont permit test — 6 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Nationally, flash floods kill more people than any other weather event, and nearly half of those deaths are vehicle related.
Most of the people who drown in a flood drive into it, which is the one part a driver controls.
Nearly half of these fatalities are vehicle related.
In a storm, reduce your speed, do not use cruise control and stay alert. Keep more than four seconds of space between you and the vehicle in front.
Cruise control holds a speed the conditions have stopped justifying, and it can spin the wheels on standing water.
Reduce your speed. Do not use cruise control. Stay alert.
Do not drive where water is over the road. The depth is not always obvious and the water may hide a washout. A vehicle motor will stall in water and you could be stranded or trapped.
Water across a road is exactly as deep as it looks until the road underneath has gone.
Do not drive where water is over the road. The depth of water is not always obvious and the water may hide danger such as washouts.
If your vehicle stalls in a flooded area, abandon it as soon as possible. Flood waters can rise rapidly and sweep away a car and its occupants.
Many deaths have come from people trying to move a stalled vehicle instead of leaving it.
If your vehicle stalls in a flooded area, abandon it as soon as possible.
As little as 4 inches of running water can make it difficult to walk and can hide hazards from view.
It is the current rather than the depth that takes your feet away, and four inches is enough.
As little as 4 inches of water can make it difficult to walk and can obstruct hazards from view.
Do not drive around traffic barricades or past road closed signs, and obey all detour signs. Bridges, culverts and roadbeds may be washed away or undermined by flood water.
The barricade is where somebody has already found the road is gone.
Do not drive around traffic barricades or past “road closed” signs. Obey all detour signs.
On the test
What share of flash flood deaths is vehicle related?
Nearly half of them. Most of the people who drown in a flood drive into it, which is the one part a driver controls. 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, p.46: “Nearly half of these fatalities are vehicle related.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against 2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, published by the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-15.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/VT.pdf (2025 Vermont Driver's Manual, form VN-007, retrieved 2026-09-14)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/VT.pages.txt (pdftotext -layout over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 1, folioMarker, nonLawPages, signGalleryPages and the extraction flag, each with its basis)