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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good article about how Manchin's home town is getting wrecked by climate change - disastrous flooding from ever increasing rainfalls. Even his own cousins are getting flooded out of their homes and their basements filled with sewage.

In fact, West Virginia is actually the most at-risk when it comes to future flooding & exposed infrastructure. The guy is literally twiddling his thumbs while his entire state will drown in the next few years:

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First Street measures risk not only from rivers but also from smaller creeks and streams — the sort of waterways that expose towns like Farmington to so much flooding, yet are generally left off FEMA’s flood maps.

First Street calculated the portion of all kinds of infrastructure at risk of becoming inoperable because of a so-called 100-year flood — a flood that statistically has a 1 percent chance of happening in any given year. The group compared the results for every state except Alaska and Hawaii. In many cases, West Virginia topped the list.

Sixty-one percent of West Virginia’s power stations are at risk, the highest nationwide and more than twice the average. West Virginia also leads in the share of its roads at risk of inundation, at 46 percent.

The state also ranks highest for the share of fire stations (57 percent) and police stations (50 percent) exposed to a 100-year flood.

And West Virginia ties with Louisiana for the greatest share of schools (38 percent) and commercial properties (37 percent) at risk.[/i][/quote]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/climate/manchin-west-virginia-flooding.html[/quote]

I wonder if even his own family can talk some sense into him. This is outrageous. [/quote]

WV is a mountainous state with huge risk of flash flooding. Everything built into the side of a hill and near a creek or river.

I think they know that he's their gravy train, so they publicly keep their mouth shut. The Manchin family is very wealthy due to their political fortunes. I'm not sure how far the wealth has reached into his extended family. [/quote]

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