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Peter Welch: “In 2024, a year to the day later, people were wiped out in…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Senator Welch Presents to Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO and Policy Forum

Published | Video Starts at 10:08

How are communities recovering? How are they feeling? Terrible. Okay. You know, when you. We had these floods, we had a huge flood in 2011, the worst since 1927. Then in 2023, In 2024, a year to the day later, people were wiped out in Barrie. The floods came back. And when people would ask me here and all the members are, they're empathetic to the weather events that happen in all of our districts, you … (10:08–10:13)

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Asserts that Barrie, Vermont, experienced significant flooding in July 2024.

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