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In August of 2021, a massive flash flood hit the community of Hurley in Buchanan County, in far southwest Virginia. Six or seven inches of rain fell in just a matter of hours. Reporter Megan Schnabel is a reporter with the online news site Cardinal News. She talked with residents shortly after the flood, and has been following the story as people have tried to rebuild.
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Scientists predict that flooding events will become more common, due to climate change, and communities in Appalachia are particularly vulnerable. The small town of Pulaski, in the New River Valley, is responding, by creating a plan to withstand the worst impacts of flooding.
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Now, the Natural Resources Defense Council is advising people considering a home purchase to try and find out if the property has been swamped in the past.A warmer climate means rainfall events can be more intense – creating a greater risk for flash floods.
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Even though legislators are in a special session, they’re not all in Richmond trying to resolve budget differences. Instead they’re leaving it to a select group of negotiators. Environmental dollars are one disagreement they are attempting to resolve.
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Scientists are documenting increasingly higher temperatures each year and climate change is not really in question anymore. Once bare alpine mountains are…
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It’s been 35 years since a devastating flood hit the city of Roanoke. In the time that’s passed, Roanoke officials have worked hard to make it more flood…
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Throughout Virginia, communities are facing down climate change.A common symptom - more frequent flooding of their homes. A common fix – state and federal…
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Virginia’s changing climate has created a flooding problem, and not just on the coast.In August, homeowners and small businesses in the Shenandoah Valley…
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This summer, tornados and intense rains have devastated some of Virginia’s tiny communities from the Atlantic Coast to mountain valleys.The Federal…
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This week Nelson County is marking the 50th anniversary of an epic storm that dropped at least 25-30 inches of rain on the Blue Ridge Mountains in a…