Recovery

The 2010 quake caused over 100,000 structures to crumble and created enough rubble to fill five football stadiums. At the time, Haiti had no quake-resistant building codes or in-depth understanding of its vulnerability.

Two more officials, Housing Secretary Fernando Gil and Department of Family Secretary Glorimar Andújar, were fired Sunday, a day after Carlos Acevedo, director of Puerto Rico's emergency management agency, was let go.

Touchdown was at 2:52 p.m., 3 miles southwest of the city, according to the National Weather Service. The path, 700 yards wide, stretched 18.1 miles, ending 4 miles northeast of Eclectic when the storm dissipated at 3:15 p.m.

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism will proceed with repairs and continue the application process for FEMA disaster reimbursements. The state had flooding conditions for more than 250 days.

Cuomo authorized the deployment of 115 National Guard troops over 90 days to help with everything from cleanup to infrastructure rebuilding in a land still reeling from Hurricane Maria in 2017.

The expected vote on whether to move forward with repairs to two fire stations and a police facility prior to a final reimbursement determination from FEMA means the Texas city likely won’t get paid back for the expenses.

The Troy tornado, traveling up to 80 mph, was the strongest of the two. It hit several businesses — many of them downtown — before damaging “dozens, if not hundreds” of residences, but causing no reported injuries.

Patience is growing thin and Texas lawmakers are demanding that FEMA speed up disaster-assistance projects to replace badly damaged middle schools, saying the students shouldn’t suffer because of FEMA’s ‘incompetence.’

The storms weakened before they reached Tuscaloosa, where winds uprooted trees and downed power lines. At least 11 storm-related deaths were reported across the South as of early Saturday night.

The earthquake Tuesday, one of hundreds of seismic events that have jolted Puerto Rico since late December, has caused the latest major obstacle faced by residents in the two years since Hurricane Maria hit the island.

The temblor struck off less than 10 miles off the southwest coast of the U.S. territory near the major city of Ponce at 6:32 a.m. local time (5:32 a.m. EST). It is not known if there were any reported injuries or deaths.

Six months after twin earthquakes hit the California desert community of Ridgecrest — magnitudes 6.4 and 7.1 just 34 hours apart — damage has been identified, repairs have been planned and many have already been made.

Amid cleanup efforts — and a $50 million plan to put its buildings on stilts like oceanfront homes — the village is now seeking $3.5 million in state funds to help pay for connecting to the Toho Water Authority’s wastewater system to prevent future failures.

The rare burst of storms near daybreak Monday flooded roads, submerged cars, stranded drivers and closed Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for about three hours. Over 7 inches of rain fell in a few hours.

FEMA is asking for $4 billion to cover what it spent after the 2015, 2017 and 2018 fires for debris clearing from burned properties, road and infrastructure repair, temporary housing assistance and other services.