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Like many folks in Huntington, IƵve been watching the flooding in the Enslow area with growing concern. What used to be a rare event now seems like a seasonal certainty. Ƶ climate change accelerates, the water keeps rising and Fourpole Creek canƵt keep up.

In recent years, IƵve heard more and more people mention Ƶatmospheric rivers.Ƶ At first, I thought it was just a West Coast issue. Turns out itƵs not. These long, powerful streams of moisture are now reaching the East Coast, too, dumping heavy rainfall on areas like ours and making an already tough situation even harder. And similar flooding patterns are showing up all across the country and more recently in West Virginia. Gilbert in Mingo County has had two major floods in one month.

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