As we all saw last week, the coverage this week in the local news has been more relevant to local issues, instead of national issues. The floods are the talk of the state, and rightfully so. This is what some have referred to as an "once every hundred year flood." I for one will be happy to be done with this, and hope we never have to go through it again. However, to give an idea as to why the media has focused on this as a relevant issue, instead of national issues, I decided to pull a quote from an article from the Atlanta Journal and Constituion. "Nearly 60 roads are closed in Douglas County, according to Douglas Department of Transportation Director Randy Hulsey. At the height of last week's flooding disaster, about 170 roads were closed in Douglas." (October 2, 2009 Publication: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) Page Number: B3 )
This has in fact played more of a national factor than many would have previousely thought as well. Especially since CNN and The Weather Channel are based here in Atlanta, most of the nation got to see what it was we were going through here.
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