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FarPoint

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5. My gut feeling on this tends to point to...

Reply to brewens (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 3, 2022, 11:22 AM

Aug 2022

Mountaintop mining as a major cause of these flash floods. Strip away the topography/ mountains, vegetation...in massive amounts... I also fear for mud slides happening here too...

You know, how dangers approach to areas suffering from mass forest fires...flooding, mud slides...

If more data can be collected regarding the causality and said mining is identified as a primary contributor....This will have to be addressed/ exposed. We all know that this research has NOT been funded in the past to block information,,,

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Kentucky flooding: Is it caused by Mountain Top Mining? [View all] FarPoint Aug 2022 OP

Here is an article I just found... FarPoint Aug 2022 #1

Not caused, but certainly aggravated by it. Ocelot II Aug 2022 #2

I bet it was in a few places. They blast and doze boulders, trees and all right down the side brewens Aug 2022 #3

Of course not Bayard Aug 2022 #4

In can be an old mine that wasn't properly reclaimed and good luck there. They probably brewens Aug 2022 #7

My gut feeling on this tends to point to... FarPoint Aug 2022 #5

Not just mountaintop mining Jilly_in_VA Aug 2022 #6