Any local news is now immediate national news, particularly if the news is sensational. It seems worse now than it used to because we hear more horror stories that once did, and now should, remain local.
For the record, Buchanan County Virginia includes the town of Grundy. Grundy is repeatedly subject to flooding.
In fact, the mountainside across the river was moved and a large flat place created. the Town was moved across the river to the flat place and out of harm’s way, above the flood plain elevation.
Grundy is SW Virginia coal country and was likely harmed severely by Obama’s war on coal