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Marking one year since severe flash flooding in Lackawanna County [Video]

Residents and officials are still working to prevent flash flooding in the future.

“So many of us that went through so many things,” said Kozlanski. “It’s almost like a surreal feeling,” 

His family’s home along Leggett’s Creek was one of many that took on feet of water.

In the year since the flooding, the effort to rebuild has been nonstop.

“We’re getting a lot of help from neighbors and, and, you know, we did get some help from the city and some other organizations, but it’s been slow just rebuilding of all different types, but it’s been slow, but with the help of other people and we’re just getting by, and we’re doing ok,” said Kozlanski.

“There’s been so much work that has gone in on this last year. In addition to that, we want to acknowledge the trauma of that event,” said Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti.

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