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This is excellent news for people who rent and lost their shelter and possessions in the flood. Renters whose homes — apartments, mobile homes or houses — were made uninhabitable due to severe storm damage may qualify for assistance from FEMA’s Individual and Households Program. This program offers funds to rent alternative housing while...
Did the wahoos in Congress not pay attention to the news in the past month? Policy sales are on hold. For the third time this year Congress has failed to reauthorize the national flood insurance program, leading to a temporary suspension of policy sales just as interest in flood protection in the Nashville area...
I’m not sure when it happened or if maybe I just got comfortable with the former pace, but things seem to be moving so much faster now that keeping up is no longer just a struggle, but a certain impossibility. It happens to all of us. Life’s challenges conspire to sap away our attention...
With this poster: From their website: All of the proceeds from the sale of these posters will go directly to the Tennessee Farm Disaster Response Fund which is associated with the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. No one will forget the flooding of May 2010 and the rural Tennessee communities affected by it. Show...
It’s been nearly a month since the devastating floods that struck communities across Tennessee. In that time there have been all manner of relief efforts, from calls for donations and volunteers, to concerts and other events. Last weekend there was one such event at the Beechaven Winery and Vinyards in Clarksville. From the Leaf...
Governor Bredesen has issued a Federal Farm Assistance Request covering 13 counties in Middle and West Tennessee. From the TN.GOV press release: Bredesen made the request this week in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. The 13 counties include: Benton, Chester, Dickson, Fayette, Hardeman, Hickman, Humphreys, Lauderdale, Lewis, Maury, McNairy, Perry...
That’s Congressman Bart Gordon’s advice in a guest column that appeared in the Saturday edition of the Daily News Journal. From the article: Even as many people in Tennessee have returned to normal routines, those families who were hit the hardest are still working to rebuild their lives. Those families will continue to need...
Farming is a huge part of Tennessee’s GDP, and employs over 300,000 people in the state. So when farms are hit with a natural disaster, the toll is felt by a very large group of people. The Jackson Sun reports on how farmers in floodstricken areas a trying to cope with crop loss and...
The Dyersburg State Gazette reports that Feed the Need Food Pantry needs volunteers for their distribution effort tomorrow morning. From the article Volunteers are greatly needed for this event due to the increased size of the program. Close to 1500 people are expected to come for their family to pick up food and the...
House Democratic Caucus Chair, Mike Turner has sponsored a resolution urging the state’s congressional delegation to “initiate investigative hearings on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers relative to water releases from dams serving Middle Tennessee during recent flooding and maintenance of dams and levees. The resolution passed unanimously in Committee, and will be on the...