Recovery

According to FEMA, federal disaster assistance for individuals and families can include money for rental assistance, essential home repairs, personal property losses, and other serious disaster-related needs.

“Most of the people that came in, they were eating their first hot meal in days. For some, us being open brought a sense of normalcy, offering them basic necessities in an area that’s destroyed.”

About 830 citizen soldiers and airmen conducted flood operations in a dozen counties as high waters caused widespread damage to roads, levees and other public facilities, the Illinois National Guard said.

California employers are now required to protect all workers — except for those in closed buildings with filtered air — from wildfire smoke whenever the air is officially deemed unhealthy to breathe.

Bay County, Fla., is set to stop accepting applications for its private property debris removal program on Friday. The deadline comes after county officials extended the popular federally-funded program in June.

The Sutter County, Calif., Fire Department applied four months ago for a SAFER grant. It also applied for an economic hardship waiver, which would have waived the cost share portion for the county, but it was denied.

To date, 77 percent of structural debris on properties in the Camp Fire Consolidated Debris Removal Program has been removed for a total of over 2.6 million tons of ash, debris, metal, concrete and contaminated soil.

The National Weather Service confirmed that three other tornadoes, two EF0s and one EF1 (like the one in Scandia), touched down Sunday night in McLeod County, about 60 miles southwest of the metro area.

This year is ahead of last year's pace, with 38.21 inches already, far above the normal rate of 24.18 inches. Records for the wettest 12-month period are being set each month, according to the weather service.

The website is the public-facing portal to put the entire community’s recovery effort on the same page, said John Pyron, director of disaster response for Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio.

Two tornadoes, both reaching maximum wind speeds of 110 mph, hit Cape Cod Tuesday, the National Weather Service said in its survey report of the storms. The high-end EF1 tornadoes touched down in three communities.

Recovery efforts are expected to last several days as state, local and county officials assess the damage and response. Homes and commercial properties across eight communities were impacted by straight-line wind damage.

"The weekend storms in some parts of Michigan have left hundreds of thousands of electric customers with extended interruptions in services and … they may be entitled to a credit as a result of those interruptions."

2019 flooding was historic due to the longevity of the flooding and the height the three area rivers reached. The high water mark for the Mississippi River at St. Louis was 46.02 feet, the second-highest recorded crest.

Private nonprofits in Oklahoma that provided essential services of a governmental nature after the severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding that occurred April 30 - May 1 are eligible for assistance.