Recovery

Each house will be demolished after it’s appraised and cleared of hazardous materials, and the land will be left as open space.

They're a tripping hazard. They're unsightly. Panama City landscapers say not to grind them down and plant on top of them because the air pockets that creates can kill the new plants. There's just not much to do with them.

A “bomb cyclone” that struck the Midwest earlier this month triggered flooding in three states, resulting in a death toll that claimed lives and livestock.

According to FEMA, more than $2 billion in federal disaster assistance has been approved to date for the Virgin Islands.

About 2,000 miles of state roads — roughly 20 percent of the state road system — have been closed at some point over the last week. The flooding also damaged over 2,000 homes and 341 businesses.

The sum would be the first federal reimbursement received by the county for the Oct. 10 hurricane and would be used to help cover $100 million already spent on recovery in the unincorporated area.

The recovery plan for New Hanover County in North Carolina includes housing, making infrastructure such as creeks more resilient, bolstering the economic recovery, and better positioning the county for future storms.

The declaration means the state can offer all state resources to help the county deal with flooding that was caused by heavy rain and melting snow. The county sustained widespread flooding, with many damaged homes.

The National Weather Service confirmed a pair of tornadoes touched down in Shiawassee County and two in Genesee County that damaged homes, barns, splintered trees, and downed power lines leaving thousands in the dark.

Three semi-trailers arrived at the Nebraska National Guard warehouse in Lincoln on Saturday morning with more than 72,000 bottles and 3,000 one-gallon jugs of water for distribution.

As of Monday, FEMA had paid nearly $6 million in disaster aid to about 2,600 households. That’s out of 5,200 cases that FEMA reviewed. A typical aid amount is $2,000-$6,000, according to FEMA officials and homeowners.

'We know that FEMA undercounts, and that has long-term effects for Houston. It means we get less money than we should get; it means we are not seeing the full scale of the problem, especially for vulnerable people.'

A spokesman for Verizon issued a statement saying the problem was limited to dispatchers being unable in some cases to collect phone number and location information from calls. The dispatch center manager disagreed.

Since the Hurricane Michael, the city has taken out a $50 million loan to cover expenses, with plans in the work to take out another $25 million.

To help private property owners get there, the city is working with FEMA to put programs in place to help make it possible.