Posts Tagged ‘emergency management’

Portions of western and central Massachusetts were cleaning up on Wednesday from powerful storms that prompted a tornado warning in a region still recovering from deadly twisters last month. Tuesday’s storms toppled trees and power lines, knocking out power to thousands. Hail, some of its the size of ping pong balls, damaged homes and cars [...]

As floods ravage the Mississippi basin and the South picks itself up from last month’s devastating tornadoes, House Republicans want to increase aid. Republicans controlling a key House panel boosted funding for disaster relief on Friday to make up what they called President Barack Obama’s “wholly inadequate request.”

Tom Parker shook his head and seemed near tears as he talked about all that he lost in an April 27 tornado that ripped apart the northern Alabama farm where he grew up and had spent much of his adult life raising chickens, cows and three children. The tornado, one in a series of storms [...]

Disappointed. That was the word most often used to describe reaction to the news Saturday that federal disaster assistance was denied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to parts of Southwest Virginia slammed April 28 by tornadoes. “I think it’s going to be devastating to the county,” said Washington County Sheriff Fred Newman. “I was [...]

Damage from last week’s tornadoes and storms in Jefferson County, Alabama, which is awash in debt, is far worse than initially thought and will hit the county’s sewer revenue, the county commission president said on Tuesday. The county, saddled with a $3.2 billion sewer bond debt, is struggling to avoid declaring what would be the [...]

Per the Christian Science Monitor: With at least 300 lives lost from a massive tornado outbreak in the South, the Obama White House reacted quickly this week, declaring a federal disaster, promising federal help, and dispatching none other than the president himself to Alabama on Friday to survey the damage. A few states away, Texas [...]

Per AFP: A powerful tornado which ripped across a small town in Georgia, swept up everything in its past and then roared north into Tennessee, finally dumping a store sign more than 112 miles away.Linda Summitt of Knoxville, Tennessee, could not believe her eyes when she walked into her front yard on Thursday morning and [...]

Violent weather ripped through the South for a second straight night, killing one person each in Arkansas and Mississippi, damaging dozens of homes in a rural Texas community and causing widespread destruction and injuries across Alabama. The latest round of severe weather Tuesday night and early Wednesday came a day after a series of powerful [...]