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A woman with curly red hair wearing a black tshirt and black pants stands on the sidewalk outside of a white building on a sunny day.
Peter Hirschfeld
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Vermont Public
Interviews with flood survivors, state and local officials and current and former FEMA employees reveals a pattern of administrative bloat at a federal agency that, to many Vermonters, seemed less interested in providing assistance than in finding ways to reject requests for aid.
Raquel C. Zaldívar/New England News Collaborative
“We didn’t know how long 'temporary' was going to be,” said Janine McLauchlan, head of the Robert Frost Public Charter School in Conway, NH which lost its first-floor classrooms during the flood.