Recovery

Twisters were spotted in Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Arizona, according to multiple media reports. An area stretching from Tulsa to Wichita Falls, Texas remained under tornado watch until 5 a.m. Tuesday morning.

The funds will help pay for infrastructure repair and emergency response costs associated with storms and flooding that swept through parts of the state March 11 to April 16.

The decision to have the federal government cover 90 percent of disaster recovery costs should save Bay County, Fla., taxpayers millions of dollars in spending for debris removal and emergency protective measures needed after the Category 5 storm.

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo continues to spar with the International Joint Commission over the flooding, claiming the agency needs to do more.

Almost all of the area’s schools have temporarily moved to Chico and Oroville. The town’s hospital is closed until 2020 at the earliest. The burn zone boasts two open supermarkets and four restaurants.

The money is sent to the state of Florida to assist Sarasota County with the costs of federally declared disasters or emergencies.

At its peak, the Sonoma County, Calif., Fairgrounds’ RV park was home to 120 trailers brought in by FEMA to shelter homeowners and renters whose homes were incinerated in the October 2017 wildfires, which destroyed more than 5,300 homes in Sonoma County.

She’ll remember forever when she and the other dispatchers in the second-floor communications center peered through windows to the east to “see the flames coming over the mountains.”

The 2019 Call for Code seeks technology solutions from software developers, data scientists and technologists to follow last year’s winner, Project OWL, and its incident management system.

The directive was given Thursday morning in the Davenport Police Department’s underground training center, where roughly 75 business owners had gathered seeking input for how to build back their businesses.

Residents are cleaning up after the EF-2 tornado that struck Haileyville and part of Pittsburg County on April 30. Officials from the state Office of Emergency Management and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma were also on hand.

Rep. Jay Trumbull requested over $600 million in appropriations based on requests made from around the area by those affected by Hurricane Michael. A large number of those original funding requests were nixed early on.

The House bill would give $17.2 billion to areas affected by recent natural disasters. The measure's similar to one passed in January, but adds $3 billion for subsequent floods in the Midwest and tornadoes in the South.

After years of declared disasters and three recovery groups, the Indiana County’s attempt at developing a Community Organizations Active in Disaster organization seems to have stuck its landing.

It authorizes the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division to coordinate state efforts beyond what those agencies were already doing.