(Credit: Roxy Todd)
When floods swept across Appalachia three weeks ago during Helene, it was one of the worst natural disasters to hit the region in a generation. But flash flooding in the mountains does happen.
One example is the 2016 flood in West Virginia, which killed 23 people and destroyed more than two-thousand homes.
A Virginia Tech professor has been researching what helped communities rebuild after that flood, and why some communities are only now seeing progress.
Roxy Todd reports.
Virginia Public Radio 