Recovery

Sheriff’s Lt. Doug Ulmer of Kooskia reportedly jumped in the rushing water to help rescue people. Two men and one woman were hauled to dry ground.

So far, not one bill introduced to help with Hurricane Michael relief has passed through Congress. Not even a tax relief bill to help people claim their losses on their taxes.

The announcement comes 18 months after hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the Virgin Islands, seriously damaging several historic sites and monuments. Restoration work will be funded by insurance proceeds in conjunction with FEMA.

The network allows for a quick deployment during the early stages of a wildfire and offers immediate communication when crews are sometimes without traditional means of connectivity.

The company has a history of helping wildfire-stricken communities in California set up recovery websites quickly. Now it's launching a website theme so it can do so for more local governments.

Early damage estimates to property, farm operations and infrastructure resulting from the “bomb cyclone” on March 13-14 and the resulting blizzard and flooding totals nearly $1.4 billion.

The bond brings county borrowing to a total of $250 million for debris removal and infrastructure repair. Officials say the money’s needed and they can't wait for federal disaster spending reimbursement, which could take years.

Warehouses were filling up with hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of donations from the American people. Buckets, water, clothing, picks, shovels, teddy bears, etc. We literally had everything.

The damage done to the county after tornadoes ripped through its villages and towns on March 14 didn’t meet the state threshold for declaring a State of Emergency.

Flooding along the West Fork of the Little Sioux River in Iowa and a compromised levee forced more than 200 residents to evacuate the small Woodbury County town for several days.

Emergency Management officials were not informed by Union Pacific of the sodium chlorate spill until March 16 — two days after the Eastern Washington derailment.

Families across the reservation have been left stranded in their homes, the roads and driveways impassable or homes surrounded by water.

The city estimated that the August flooding caused $6.5 million in damage to public properties, including about $5.3 million to stormwater management facilities.

There was little discussion while crafting the bill — and no mention in the final 105 pages of legislation — that specifically directed schools to consider suicide prevention efforts, the most pressing mental health challenge facing a generation and the second leading cause of death for young people under 35.

The state of emergency Gov. Mike Parson declared Thursday allows the state to eventually apply for Federal Emergency Management Agency aid.