What recovery after 2016 W.Va. floods can tell us about rebuilding after Helene
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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.
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