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Estimates keep coming in for counties in west Tennessee after last month’s flood/tornado/straight line wind damage. Three county offices are remaining open, and the FEMA office in Dyersburg is transitioning to a new location. The Jackson Sun has the story. To contact FEMA call 1-800-621-3362. People seeking aid must apply within 60 days of...
Folks, the weekends just aren’t long enough. That’s the only conclusion that I can come to. Seriously, there’s just too much stuff to do (some of which is lounging) and not enough time to do it. I don’t know, maybe it’s that I had to work Saturday. Maybe it’s that I have a million...
The Commercial Appeal has a story today on how farmer in west Tennessee have been impacted by this month’s flood. I mentioned in another post today of speaking to man that owns a grain mill who said that things were pretty bad. The story breaks down the numbers. Nearly 40,000 acres are under water...
Over the weekend, the rains came again. On Saturday night, my sister was in Jackson. When the alarms went off, she was at the local mall with her kids and she said there was a bit of panic. Not the kind of panic one would have from a zombie apocalypse, but a bit of...
The Dyersburg State Gazette reports that the Forked Deer River is below flood stage and officials are having trouble finding places to house people. Some of the assistance FEMA provides includes rental assistance programs, uninsured medical losses, transient accommodations, vehicle damages, phone repair grants and personal property replacement. He said they are having issues...
The majority of the floodwaters having receded from Dyersburg, the city is restoring services to areas previously under water and allowing homeowners back into the neighborhoods. In addition, the city is waiving city permit fees for renovation projects. There are some conditions for returning to affected areas: Guidelines established during the recovery and cleanup...
From the release: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) today announced an online hub for collaborative information-sharing through Facebook for the response and recovery to severe weather and flooding in Tennessee. The webpage, www.facebook.com/TNDisasterInfo hosts an online community where those affected by the disaster and those active...
Please Note: This is not a comprehensive list, but a compilation of posts and external resources that we’ve found over the past week. If you know of a resource we missed please Contact us with the county or counties served in the subject line. – Dyer County – Dyersburg is one of the counties...
Here is some specific information regarding making donations to the residents of Dyersburg and Dyer County. City and county employees have just begun disaster assessments, but report as many as 461 structures may have been affected by floodwaters. In preliminary estimates, at least 300 of those structures are homes. Emergency officials and first responders...
The State of Tennessee just announced it. From the release: The federal government today authorized a major disaster declaration for two additional Tennessee counties. On Monday, Governor Phil Bredesen asked President Obama to declare 52 counties federal disaster areas following the severe storms, tornadoes and flooding that struck the state beginning Friday, April 30....