Everyone has been found after reports of more than 40 people missing in a rural Virginia county inundated by torrential rains
Crews worked overnight and through the morning in the flooded areas to help locate the 44 people who had been reported missing, Buchanan County Sheriff Chief Deputy Eric Breeding said in a news conference Thursday.More than 40 people are unaccounted for after severe storms and floods in western Virginia county"We are happy to report that zero people are unaccounted for in the impact area," Breeding said."We're also happy to report we are at zero fatalities.
This region of Appalachia is among those most prone to flash flooding in the country, with many areas also most at risk because of the growing threat of heavy rain, according to a CNN analysis of a report last year from a nonprofit climate research group, First Street Foundation.The climate crisis is exacerbating flash flooding, too, by increasing the rate of rainfall or the amount of rain that falls in a short period of time.
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