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.
Residents are still reckoning with the damage inflicted by seven federally declared major disasters over the past two years.
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.
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
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.
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.
Vermont Governor Phil Scott was in Lyndonville, in the state’s Northeast Kingdom, on Wednesday to mark the anniversaries of flooding in the state.
In 2023, Vermont experienced what was billed as a "100-year-storm" in early July after several days of previous heavy rainfall saturated the ground. After all was said and done, one person in Vermont was killed,
We look back on the historic flood events of 2023 and 2024 on the eve of the second anniversary of the first storm.
Devastating flooding hit parts of the Northeast Kingdom Thursday for the third consecutive year in a row to the day.
On the anniversary of the last two July floods, a few communities in Vermont experienced another round of damaging flash flooding. Unlike the last two years, this year's flooding was much more isolated.
"Talk about how your community needs to be reshaped and how you can practically and thoughtfully make those changes over time," Douglas Farnam said. "Because we can't snap our fingers and be flood resilient.