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I've encouraged people across North Carolina to make sure they're prepared for hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. I've urged them to make sure they have adequate homeowners' ...
We thought reform was possible. We were wrong. We were brought to Puerto Rico to fix FEMA’s broken disaster recovery processes after Hurricane Maria struck in 2017. Our team of seven Lean Six ...
For the fifth year in a row, KSWP/KAVX hosted church and community leaders to prepare for hurricane season. In this short time, the Church and Community Emergency Response Team (CCERT) ...
"If you don’t know what or when hurricane season is, you’re not qualified to run FEMA." New FEMA chief sparks frustration ...
New work published in Nature outlines how rising global temperatures are fueling not just stronger storms and bigger floods ...
Weather dictates where FEMA will respond, but the Trump administration has made cuts to the National Weather Service.
NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special ...
While sites near the coast are in most peril, areas far inland have had severe flooding recently as a warming climate spawns ...
Preparation can spare you time and stress if your personal identification papers are lost after a wildfire or other natural ...
Theses are emergency contact numbers for Polk County, its municipalities, plus electric companies and aid services.
At the direction of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) made sweeping cuts ...