President Biden Approves Emergency Declaration For Louisiana
Governor John Bel Edwards request for a Federal Emergency Declaration because of severe winter weather has been granted according to a press release from the Governor s Office.
Governor Edwards says the help is desperately needed especially to help address the many power and water issues across the entire state.
The request was granted and will include help in the form of commodities. The United Way of Acadiana has been responding to the crisis, and this weekend, they are providing free food for anyone who needs it. Click here for information. It s a contact-free event. You don t even have to get out of your car.
Biden signs major disaster declaration for 77 Texas counties, plans to visit the state next week
Much of Texas remains in sub-freezing temperatures as thousands still desperately wait for power and access to clean water to get restored.
City of Dallas Building Services Maintenance Supervisor Darren Reynolds (left), Building Services Maintenance Worker Javier Vasquez and volunteer George Tang unload two pallets of drinking water to be distributed at the Literacy Achieves nonprofit in Vickery Meadows to nearby residents living without water after a winter storm brought snow and continued freezing temperatures to North Texas on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Dallas. All of the water was distributed in a little over an hour. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
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President Joe Biden has signed a major disaster declaration for Texas as the entire state deals with the aftermath of severe winter weather earlier this week.