Critical infrastructure is vulnerable to flooding from climate change—why it’s not just coastal cities at risk

"Well, it's a really interesting result that we found is that the places that you would normally think that have a lot of risk as you're mentioning, you know, the Floridas, the Louisianas, the Texas. Those places actually still have a lot of risk. There's a lot of critical infrastructure at risk. But the surprising part that we found is there's a lot of alluvial flooding or precipitation flooding that sees the middle of America have a lot of risk." 

"So places like West Virginia, which you wouldn't think about as being a big flood area, has a significant amount of critical infrastructure that has inoperable risk, meaning that if the floodwaters make it to the building, it would render things inoperable. Police stations, hospitals, those things that are critical to the community, but also things that you wouldn't necessarily think about right away."