More than 30 years ago, Wade Davis showed up to an Aikido class and it changed his life forever.

“I had no idea what Aikido was. I just showed up to learn how to fall down and never looked back,” he said.

It started when he was 18 and saw a sign on his college campus that stated: “Learn to fly and land without getting hurt.”

“It looks like martial arts until you watch it for a while and see this is more like dancing,” he explained. “You both know your steps, but instead of the way dancing might end with a dip, with Aikido it might end with throwing somebody across the room,” he said. “So it’s a little different.”

Hastings urged anyone in Vermont who lives alongside a river to be vigilant in the coming days.

“What happens is rivers will rise and as the rivers rise and the flows increase, they eventually become strong enough so they can just lift that ice and carry it downstream,” she said. “And as it does so, the ice breaks up. And then… water can back up behind it very, very quickly.”

Protesters surrounded a house on Dorset Street in South Burlington on Wednesday, trying to block agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from apprehending a person inside. About 150 demonstrators gathered at the scene near University Mall, forming a human chain surrounding the single-family home.