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While yesterday’s floods were much smaller in scale than in previous years, the date’s symbolic nature brought painful memories and underlined the new regularity of flooding in Vermont.
This year's flash floods were confined to the northeastern part of the state. They were far less catastrophic than those of the previous two years.
Vermont Governor Phil Scott was in Lyndonville, in the state’s Northeast Kingdom, on Wednesday to mark the anniversaries of flooding in the state.
Following Thursday night’s flooding, locals reflect on this year’s destruction and question how the state can prevent what has become a yearly tragedy.
The flooding came on the exact anniversary of catastrophic flooding that hit Vermont on July 10, 2023 and again, on the same day, in 2024.
Residents are still reckoning with the damage inflicted by seven federally declared major disasters over the past two years.
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