Severe winds cut short this year’s Stowe Foliage Arts Festival [Video]

The festival, known for attracting tourists from across the country and showcasing national artists, was cut short due to severe weather conditions that left vendors and organizers in disbelief.Vendors who had camped out overnight were stunned to discover the aftermath of the storm as daylight broke.Dan Quinones, a vendor, described the chaos. “It was like a freight train coming through. The wind—I’d never heard anything like that before,” Quinones said.Giant tents, crucial for housing the various booths, were flattened, with metal pins uprooted and hundreds of merchandise items ruined.Tim Cianciola, the co-event organizer of the Stowe Foliage Arts Festival, expressed the gravity of the situation. “This event has a national reputation. To have it shut down and destroyed like this is a major disaster for the people involved,” Cianciola said.First-time vendor Larry Jenny from New York could hardly believe the damage. “I actually didn’t even notice anything until I got …