Recovery

The deaths were mainly from a lack of medical care in the weeks after the storm — what happens when you have no electricity, when roads are blocked, when hospitals are closed or overcrowded.

There is nothing on the radar — yet. But hurricane season has started, and memories of Harvey remain fresh.

Officials from the Austin Police Department and the Houston Airport System discussed how their technology performed during recent large events, at the Texas Digital Government Summit.

'Harvey did something that we can’t stress enough, and we’re glad Harvey helped drive this point home — and that is, forget the hurricane number.'

'While we care about our residents, we will do the best we can. However, the governments are not going to pay for housing — they can’t..'

The office of communications was working two crises simultaneously last year.

A new website launched to help communities in these efforts, Resilient MA/Climate Clearinghouse, www.resilientma.org, is a gateway for policymakers and the public to find the latest research and tools to plan for climate change.

While some businesses already have launched fundraising efforts, others question whether they’ll be able to raise money as they did two years ago.

New York City, which runs its own separate building code system, now relies on 2009 construction standards, although changes made after Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012 required new buildings to better resist strong winds and rain.

The 39-year-old National Guardsman, an Air Force veteran, was washed away by the floodwaters.

If the analysis is correct, it means that for every hurricane-related death that's currently on the books, another 70 fatalities in the U.S. territory have gone uncounted.

Over the past 60 years alone, Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska has been repeatedly dusted by ash from erupting volcanoes strung down the western side of Cook Inlet.

Should Ellicott City, founded in 1772, devastated by floods in 2016 and now again in 2018, try to rebuild again?

More than $4.7 million would go to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction to establish the 'Teacher Resource Officer Grant Program.'

'Whatever money remains after we support current flood relief survivors will stay in the fund for future disasters in our community.'