Mountainous West Virginia Leads the Nation In Crippling Flash Floods Risk From Climate Change

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- The Appalachian Highlands.
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- Daily Kos, Oct. 19, 2021.

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West Virginia is nicknamed the mountaineer state; the land area consists of multiple provinces of the Appalachian highlands; the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Allegheny Mountains, the Allegheny Plateau, the Cumberland Mountains, and the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians. If the mountains in the state were flattened, the land area would be equal in size to Texas.

There are just three broad river valleys in the state: the Ohio River, the lower Kanawha River, and the south branch of the Potomac. The rest of the state is prone to dangerous flash flooding due to a significant population residing in the mountain hollers. When heavy rainfall occurs, the creeks flood with the debris of rock, trees, cars, and homes that cause significant damage to infrastructure and life.

The New York Times recently published an article that highlights the cruelty of its Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito. Both Senators are climate change enablers; both will not vote for the climate change and other humane provisions in the Build Back Better plan. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, will likely doom the BBB because he is a coal baron. Moolah is why he is in politics. It certainly isn’t for the health of his family or constituents that he swore to protect...

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1. It's probably been made worse

by blasting so many mountaintops into the land below, clogging up the streams and destroying the environment.

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2. Absolutely, flooding waterways, damaging communities,

homes, people, nature.. god awful.

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3. This article has been written by someone geographically challenged.

West Virginia has never been called the "mountaineer" state; we are the mountain state, and the WVU mascot is the mountaineer.

Despite John Denver's lyrics in Country Roads, the Blue Ridge Mountains barely touch the state, in the far eastern part of the eastern panhandle.

The entire Kanawha River, not just the lower portion, is contained within the state borders.


However, the discussion of flash flooding is absolutely right. In 1985, Hurricane Juan stalled over West Virginia for a day, dropping ten inches of rain and killing 45. Some of those bodies were never found.

I was a bit irked by the next to last paragraph of the article - "Unfortunately, Mountaineers would rather rebuild on a regular basis than burn less coal. The rest of us shouldn’t have to use our taxpayers to rebuild the state over and over and over again." Do you say the same to those in regularly flooded coastal areas or fire-prone sections of California?