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/ ListenUpYall.com May 18, 2021 | 4:49 PM PEARL, Miss. – A public notice is now available that addresses FEMA’s intention to reimburse eligible applicants in 31 counties and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians for costs to repair or replace facilities damaged by the Feb. 11-19 severe winter storms in Mississippi. The notice is now posted on FEMA’s Mississippi disaster declaration website at https://www.fema.gov/disasterfederal-register-notice/dr-4598-ms-public-notice-001 and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency website at https://www.msema.org/news/. Under disaster declarati...

LongIsland.com U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice (NY-04) and Nassau County Executive Laura Curran have announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $71.8 million to help fund the Western Bays ... U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice (NY-04) and Nassau County Executive Laura Curran have announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $71.8 million to help fund the Western Bays Resiliency Project, which will replenish tidal wetlands to prevent...

NASSAU COUNTY, NY — FEMA has awarded Nassau County $71.8 million to help fund the Western Bays Resiliency Project, which will replenish tidal wetlands to prevent flooding, sewage back-up and unhealthy environments in Reynolds Channel and the Western Bays. The grant money was announced by Rep. Kathleen Rice and Nassau County Executive Laura Curran. The money comes from FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, which gives funds to local governments to rebuild in ways that help prevent future disasters. "With our climate changing and sea levels rising, Long Island faces the troubling reality of...

Published: Friday, February 26, 2021 Mississippi tornado. Photo credit: Thomas Graning/Associated Press A man searches for belongings after a tornado ravaged Tupelo, Miss., in 2014. The state failed to spend millions of dollars in federal disaster aid in the years that followed the storm. Thomas Graning/Associated Press The money should have been a bonanza: After tornadoes killed 11 people in Mississippi in early 2014, the federal government approved $14 million to help fortify the state against future disasters. Mississippi had been battered by 21 major events, including Hurricane Katrina, ...