Its not that news worthy outside of the states. Europe has their own floods right now, and have had the last couple of years.
Its also nothing compared to the weather catastrophes other places in the world routinely overlooked by western press.
We had 2 weeks parts of countries being destroyed by water in Europe. I was in NYC that time and saw maybe 1 minute of info in TV. Sometimes I think that’s maybe it is better this way.
So no, not strange at all.