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Last year, heavy rains washed out roads and beaches across the Monadnock Region and the Connecticut River Valley. The flooding cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and Governor Craig Benson applied for emergency aid from the federal government to help pay for repairs. Local towns received the federal money, but the state has not ponied up its share of the emergency aid. And as New Hampshire Public Radio's Raquel Maria Dillon reports, those floods weren’t the only time the state didn't contribute to disaster relief.