Vermont, Flash flood
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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.
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.
Vermont Business Magazine From July 2023 to July 2024, Vermont experienced multiple flooding events with enough damage to secure five federal disaster declarations. Collectively, these floods spanned every one of Vermont’s 14 counties and more than 150 cities, towns and villages, causing well over a billion dollars in damage.
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
Residents are still reckoning with the damage inflicted by seven federally declared major disasters over the past two years.