SEYMOUR – With multiple towns still reeling from historic flooding, business owners were seeking help Monday to get back on their feet in a potentially lengthy rebuilding process.
Gov. Ned Lamont traveled to hard-hit Seymour to announce that the state will provide grants up to $25,000 each to businesses with fewer than 100 employees to help with clean-up and other expenses, reaching a total of $5 million.
The business owners said they need the funding as soon as possible and that most stores and homeowners lacked flood insurance because they were not in a floodplain. The massive downpour that dropped 14 inches of rain on Oxford in a single day stunned residents and represented a 1,000-year storm, officials said…