Recovery

A powerful 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Humboldt County Thursday morning, followed by a series of aftershocks, left people scared and shaken — and grateful the damage wasn’t worse.

While officials in Mercer County are still awaiting a federal disaster declaration from the White House, more than 1,600 claims for assistance have been submitted to FEMA in neighboring Tazewell County.

Helene’s floods and mudslides damaged at least 100,000 homes in Western North Carolina, according to null, displacing many of the people who live in some communities.

Mountains of snow continue to provide problems for area governments, school districts and residents, as more than three feet of snow accumulated across the northern parts of Ashtabula County.

Built on bottomland east of Eureka, the St. Louis Area’s Times Beach was vulnerable to the periodic rages of the Meramec, a river that drains a wide area of wooded hills.

County officials are leading the local government’s recovery from a tornado in May that damaged 1,200 homes and destroyed 300. Among the tech endeavors under consideration are high-speed Internet, and a resource app connecting residents to disaster recovery assistance.

About 660 gallons of diesel fuel spilled near the Columbia River south of Wallula after a Union Pacific train derailed overnight on Wednesday. Containment efforts are currently underway.

A HAZMAT communications team from Fairfield County, Conn., has been working for two weeks to help restore communications systems along with distributing much-needed supplies to the community.

In a region renowned for its sandy coastline, where billions of tourism dollars are pumped into the local economy by beachgoers each year, the storms’ aftermaths have spawned an employment nightmare.

Residents in the 12 additional counties can now apply for federal disaster assistance, including home repair, property loss and temporary lodging. Currently, nearly 40 counties around the state qualify for FEMA aid.

The New York Army National Guard will deploy 41 soldiers from the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Syracuse along with 10 Humvees to provide general-purpose support for recovery efforts in Florida.

Several missteps at the site of last year’s fatal fire in SouthPark may have contributed to conditions that killed two men and required emergency rescues of many more, newly obtained state records show.

Hurricane Milton’s sustained winds of more than 100 mph shredded Tropicana Field’s roof, uprooted grown trees, snapped power lines and toppled a massive crane into the headquarters of the Tampa Bay Times.

Hundreds of police officers, firefighters and emergency workers from North Carolina’s Triangle area are packing in food and supplies for their emotionally fatigued counterparts in the state’s western mountains.

Power line crews, fire departments, public works departments and even sheriffs' deputies with chainsaws were out in Southwest Virginia clearing fallen trees and working to bring electricity back to thousands of people.