Major Disaster Declared in West Virginia
Posted by feww on July 27, 2013
West Virginia Declared Major Disaster Area
The White House has declared a major disaster exists in the State of West Virginia in the areas affected by severe storms and flooding on June 13, 2013.
Most of the damage caused by severe storms and flooding occurred in the counties of Mason and Roane.
FEMA said additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by the state and warranted by the results of further damage assessments.
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Other Global Disasters/ Significant Events
Minnesota Declared Major Disaster Area
The White House has declared a major disaster exists in the State of Minnesota in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, and flooding during the period of June 20-26, 2013.
Areas worst affected by the severe storms, straight-line winds, and flooding were the counties of Benton, Big Stone, Douglas, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Grant, Hennepin, Houston, McLeod, Morrison, Pope, Sibley, Stearns, Stevens, Swift, Traverse, and Wilkin.
FEMA said additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by the state and warranted by the results of further damage assessments.
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Royal Gorge Fire Zone Declared Federal Disaster Area
The White House has declared the Royal Gorge fire zone a major disaster area following a request by the state’s congressional delegation to declare Colorado a federal disaster area.
The blaze consumed more than 3,200 acres and destroyed 48 of the 52 structures at the historic Royal Gorge Park, a major economic driver in Fremont County, said a report.
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Canada: Mississauga City asks Ontario for disaster relief
An “epic summer storm” flooded thousands of basements, cut power large parts of the city and brought transportation to a halt on July 8, said a report.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before ever in my community,” said a city Councillor of the flooding, which forced the evacuation of numerous residents, including nearly a thousand families who lost their homes.
You Could Be Next!
Ken Hills, 60, stands in front of the tent that had served as his home after the July 8 deluge. The tent blew away during a thunderstorm last week. Credit: ALEX NINO GHECIU / TORONTO STAR
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Lee said
This was both shocking, and yet, expected: online at: http://bit.ly/NXeOLG
ie:
“From Portions of the article:
“As the great recession was winding into a funnel cloud of throw-cash-at-anything and Congressional panic, White House staff cut a deal with a select group of venture capitalists to buy millions of votes in exchange for a lock-up of the electric-car market and associated stock perks.
To be specific; White House staff Rahm Emanual, Valarie Jarrett, Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod and Steve Rattner (“The House Gang”) made a deal with VC’s John Doerr, Ray Lane, Tom Steyer, Eric Schmidt, Richard Blum, Steve Westly and their associates, all personally connected to Steven Chu, to have those investors conduit funds through organizations such as Move-on.org, Grassroots Action, Perkins Coie, UAW, Coblentz, Debevoise and other voter influence groups which resulted in the delivery of tens of millions of voters to the polls, voters who were given to a specific outcome.
The VC’s paid for third party voter turn-out programs and efforts per a deal cut with the House Gang and they got an exclusive set of funds, stock optics and market exclusivity for electric cars and car batteries….”
Check it out
They lost billions and billions of our tax money = teachers & firefighters getting laid off.
So who ordered all of the agencies, who were supposed to do something about this, not to do anything and ignore it even to this day?