Kentucky Floods

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: Kentucky FloodsOriginal recordings, interviews, and film footage were inundated during last summer’s flood in Whitesburg, Kentucky.  The post Months after flood soaks priceless Appalachian artifacts, specialists still assessing damage appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

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7. West Virginia, Kentucky officials ignored plans for catastrophic floods

2022-10-10

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For years officials have ignored their own completed plans for how to prevent these kinds of disasters from happening in the first place.

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View In: Kentucky Floods“They won't have water for six months. The power lines are down.”

View In: Kentucky FloodsA deluged eastern Kentucky is left to ponder what it means to rebuild entire communities when “1,000-year floods” aren't 1,000-year floods anymore.

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21. How coal mining increased East Kentucky’s flood risk

2022-08-08

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Coal mining destroyed Appalachia's mountaintops. Then came the floodwaters.

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View In: Kentucky FloodsOn the first full day he has been free from COVID President Joe Biden traveled to Kentucky, the home state of the Senate Republican Minority Leader, to visit with flood survivors devastated by lost lives and lost property.On August 1, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced the historic floods had kille...