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The Tennessee Department of Military has requested about $5 million during a budget hearing with Gov. Bill Lee last week to develop “flood preparedness tools.”
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Extreme rainfall events, and the dangerous floods that follow them, are happening more often in Tennessee. This risk grows as the climate warms. Climate scientists, engineers and emergency managers rely on environmental data — data that is scarce in Tennessee. For instance, the state largely lacks, outside of rivers near urban centers, flood sensors.
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But 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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The Kentucky floods claimed at least 37 lives, and Knott County has claimed the most deaths thus far, at 17 and counting. Now, the community is picking up the pieces.
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People in West Virginia are still recovering from floods that tore through communities like vengeful gods. When you look at the pictures and videos of the…