Recovery

Cities all over the state of Florida are saying this round of reimbursements — those related to Irma — are coming in even more slowly than usual.

The NFIP is still $20.5 billion in debt in spite of debt forgiveness after devastating 2017.

Tens of thousands of families are estimated to have fled to Florida after Hurricane Maria, many of them relocating to Central Florida.

Among the issues on the table: Whether the lawyer representing the survivors, Solomon Radner, can sue police officers as John Doe 1-30 without naming the specific officers who came to the club in the early hours of June 12, 2016.

Firefighters this month have been laboring under triple-digit temperatures and dry conditions to gain control over fires that have burned indiscriminately through residential neighborhoods, rolling hills and steep, forested terrain.

'We’ve had 17 fires before, but these are impacting communities — and they’re large fires, not small.'

The Ferguson Fire is one of nearly a dozen active wildfires in the state right now, and for the second time this summer Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency.

'The fire is moving so fast that law enforcement is doing evacuations as fast as we can.'

Relief from one of the Baltimore region’s wettest stretches on record arrived Thursday, but flood warnings nonetheless remained in effect through the afternoon and evening.

Utilities, on the hook for billions, say the state’s liability laws must change.

Federal lawmakers question why more than $200 million in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Relief funds haven’t found their way to flood victims.

A year later, the hospital was merely a collection of shipping containers and tents — a field hospital, the company called it. Patients had to be wheeled outside, sometimes in the blazing sun, to go from department to department.

Downtown and the city’s center were the hardest-hit areas, according to forecasters, who reported 3.57 inches of rainfall south of the Plaza — more than a fourth of the city’s annual average rainfall delivered in one delirious night.

'A remarkable number of business owners will spend a lot of time preparing their homes, but very little time preparing their businesses.'

The day that haunts him — the day he can’t recall without tears — is June 30, 2013. That’s the day he thought a wildfire had killed his son.