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

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.

Vermont Governor Phil Scott was in Lyndonville, in the state’s Northeast Kingdom, on Wednesday to mark the anniversaries of flooding in the state.

"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.

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.