Vermont, floods
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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.
Parts of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom see up to 5 inches of rainfall in 3 hours, long-time residents reflect on three back-to-back summers of flooding on July 10
Experts say while the timing of the floods may be a coincidence, the type of weather systems that fueled them is not.
Thursday will be a “storm sandwich” with pockets of heavy rain in the morning, a dry midday, and scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms popping up across the region.
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.
Vermont Governor Phil Scott was in Lyndonville, in the state’s Northeast Kingdom, on Wednesday to mark the anniversaries of flooding in the state.
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After back-to-back years of devastating flooding, Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), is urging Congress to overhaul how the Federal Emergency Management Agency responds to disasters.
Residents are still reckoning with the damage inflicted by seven federally declared major disasters over the past two years.
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