Sanford marks first anniversary of flood, ‘one of the worst things I have lived through and also the best’
Updated 10:33 AM;
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Maybe there isn’t one.
“When I look back on it, I see, probably, the worst, one of the worst, things I have lived through and also the best, if that can make any sense at all,” said the Sanford resident and small business owner. “I just feel, I don’t know, like that. Whatever that name of that feeling is that I can’t quantify.”
When floodwaters swept through Merillat’s hometown of Sanford last May, some of the places she cared about most — her house, her parents’ house and her new business, Three Diamonds Bridal Boutique — were all damaged.