In Plainfield, Vt., a town of 1,350, some residents spent the past year cleaning up their homes after catastrophic floods swept through last July. On Thursday, many found themselves right back where they had started after flooding once again hit Plainfield and other parts of central Vermont, on the anniversary of the disaster that they had just started putting behind them. “It’s something very difficult to witness — people who have spent a year cleaning their place up, and now it’s covered in four feet of mud,” said Bram Towbin, the town clerk and treasurer in Plainfield. “We’re very resilient people, but these are not people of means. This is something we’ll be living with for many years.”The flooding battered roads and bridges in the state and forced more than 100 rescues and evacuations overnight.

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