I actually have heard of both.
We have flooding in Our Little City. Mostly the eastern edge in the floodplain of the Pecatonica, where it's flooded again. It does that every few years. That's also where housing is run down and cheap, and poor folks live. And yes, we have gotten some big city news our way. And I saw us on some news website, as part of a story on flooding in Flyoverland.
News from Cylinder & Slide popped up in my Book of Faces (not sure why, I don't think I "liked" them). Where ever it is they are, they basically got cut off from the outside world for a while.