No comparison. This is a ruined landscape with a ton of man made hazards, and will be difficult to re-develop. It will require much capital, not just the good hearts of down home country folk alone. The locals can proclaim how much they don't need anyone's help but that is not enough.

Back in 1916 the infrastructure was gravel and dirt roads, MAYBE brick or macadam in some town centers.

Today's disaster features enormous slabs of interstate highway and also the many paved secondary roads.

Therefore the debris to be cleared is a couple of orders of magnitude more in quantity than a century ago.

NC today is highly developed, more so than say Indiana. That's a shitload of concrete and asphalt moved around at random that just gets in the way of rebuilding. Back in 1916 NC was the sticks.

Plus collapsed steel power towers, millions of tons of building debris... Power lines, water and sewer lines...

AND - the water such as creeks, ditches and rivers have over the decades been re-routed for roads and buildings. The flood created new waterways. You see survivors saying that in the videos.

How about HAZMAT? HAZardous MATerials. Gasoline, diesel, chemical stockpiles for manufacturers, etc

I totally stand by point #2 which is critical to a notion of the resource and financial challenge of dealing with the aftermath.

I WISH we had honest investigative on the ground reporting, a la Edward R. Murrow and "Harvest of Shame". I'd like to know the facts.

Networks and major news media today do NOT cover actual events, they just handwave other outlet's social media posts and parrot the president's office.