Sentences with phrase «after a flood disaster»

This is important if your home is in a flood zone, as the financial loss after a flood disaster is potentially catastrophic.

Homeowners policies do not provide coverage for the repairs and rebuilding that are necessary after a flooding disaster.

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Naled is commonly used across the US, particularly after mosquito - breeding disasters like hurricanes or floods, and the chemical is approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in insecticide.

Directed by disaster filmmaker extraordinaire Roland Emmerich, The Day After Tomorrow tells the story of a paleoclimatologist played by Jake Gyllenhaal who's forced to lead a group of survivors when a superstorm floods, then freezes, New York City.

The insurance industry now uses sophisticated catastrophe modeling for risk assessment when it comes to flooding, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, but that wasn't the case until 11 insurance companies went bankrupt after Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

And the penalties for being unprepared can be mighty steep: The American Red Cross, among others, estimates that as many as 40 % of SMBs simply never reopen after a disaster such as a flood, tornado, or earthquake.

Nicholas Pinter, a University of California, Davis, geoscientist who studies flood risk and water management, said that Florida is well - situated to build more wisely after this disaster because it already has a statewide post-disaster redevelopment plan and requires coastal communities to have their own.

More than 60,000 people have registered for disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after widespread flooding hit the state, according to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards» office.

FRSTeam, her $ 30 million fabric restoration franchise, helps homeowners and businesses clean up after fires, floods and other disasters.

Mississauga, ON June 28, 2013 — With cleanup underway after the unprecedented flooding in Alberta, Walmart Canada is actively working with the Canadian Red Cross to ensure those communities and families affected by the disaster receive the services they need.

On October 4, two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Trump finally sent Congress a request for $ 29 billion more for disaster victims in the mainland US, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands; $ 13 billion is set aside to replenish the shrinking FEMA disaster relief fund, and the rest will go to pay federal flood insurance claims.

Two weeks after Hurricane Harvey caused devastating flooding in Houston, Congress passed an initial $ 15 billion relief bill — a pot of money the Federal Emergency Management Agency can use to help any disaster zones.

However, our experience shows that donations drop significantly within a few days after a disaster, even though most of the efforts to recover from serious flooding and rebuild homes, lives and a community can stretch out for months or even years.

People who justify the Flood should be made to retrieve the bodies of children and infants after a real major flooding disaster.

In fact, the science bears this out: In a study I conducted with colleagues after the 2015 South Carolina floods, we found that people who had positive spiritual support were more likely to demonstrate disaster resilience.

After past disasters such as hurricanes, fires or floods, children have died in dangerous cribs, often donated to the families with the best intentions.

Six months after being displaced by floods, some residents of Dunkwa - on - Offin in the Upper Dankyira East Municipality of the Central Region, on Friday received relief items from the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO).

Cuomo's fashion choice for disasters and emergencies has become a familiar sight for many New Yorkers, whether he's standing on New York City streets flooded after Hurricane Sandy, trudging along a snow - crippled Buffalo highway or issuing statements in front of a burning transformer at the Indian Point nuclear facility.

The thing that pushed me along those lines was after that disaster last year, apart from working with TV3 and various partners at that time to actually provide relief for the various communities that were affected by the floods, we raised funds which was basically to help support all of that.

While declaring 12 counties disaster areas after recent rains ravaged parts of the Mohawk Valley and upstate New York, the federal government has denied individual disaster aid for people who lost property in the floods.

The federal government is now offering funding and resources to upstate counties devastated by the flooding along Lake Ontario this year, after President Trump declared parts of the region a federal disaster area earlier this week.

Three days after the disaster, former Black Stars skipper Stephen Appiah accompanied by Founder of Civil Society Organisation New Africa Ghana and President of Petronia City Development, Nana Kwame Bediako made their way through the back streets of Adabraka, one of the suburbs worst hit to deliver some relief items to the victims of the flood.

With the impacts of the flooding likely to continue well after the flood waters have retreated, Nature examines the escalating humanitarian disaster.

Historically, many coastal cities have ignored FEMA regulations after disasters to avoid forcing low - income residents from their homes when they can not afford to elevate or relocate their homes to areas without flooding, Berke said.

If there's one thing you can count on after a major flood or natural disaster, it's that the used - car market will be flooded with water - damaged cars.

When uranium firm Cameco faced mine floods a few years ago and again after the Fukushima - Daiichi nuclear disaster, its stock cratered, but the bonds dropped only a buck.

«Our takeaway is that, given the current amount of federal assistant along with flood insurance, even in an event that is very large, such as Hurricane Katrina,» he said, «The negative effect of this natural disaster peters out after two or three years, and at least according to the financial information that's taken directly from these individuals» financial background, there isn't any significant drag after a few years.»

According to Science editor David Grimm, the fact that many people died in the floods because they wouldn't leave their animals behind — as well as the sight of hundreds of abandoned cats and dogs after the flood waters receded — prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.

I love the happy - ending stories after a natural disaster, but always worry about the critters that didn't make it or were left behind when humans evacuate (think: the floods in the Midwest in the mid-90s).

Wilbert says it's especially important to help community cats in disasters, because after last year's floods in Louisiana, she saw that they were often forgotten about.

Many an unidentified cat has ended up abandoned in a shelter after a natural disaster such as fire or flood, or even a simple accident such as a door being left open.

Due to the increased demand for his services, McCarthy has added a fourth bus and a new semi-rig which will potentially double the capacity of animals transported each year, especially after the natural disasters from flooding in Louisiana and Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

Thomas Hopper: ACORN Tactics is a turn based tactical battle game in which alien blobs from space invade the earth 100 years after a disaster floods most of the planet.

But he wasn't really interested in the disaster itself but rather the aftermath, after the fire, flood, or explosion.

Inspired by traditional and contemporary patchwork quilt patterns, Laura Petrovich - Cheney creates complex and vibrant wall sculptures from wooden debris collected after natural disasters such as hurricanes, fires and floods.

They track the damage due to industrialization and natural disasters, like California after a flash flood for Joel Sternfeld.

ON HALLOWEEN WEEKEND, three years after the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, the streets of New Orleans embraced a new kind of flood, one of tourists from New York and Los Angeles besotted with art.

They won a grant from the Lemelson - MIT Program to develop a lightweight, portable disaster relief shelter, designed to be complete with a water purification system and a renewable energy source to power an LED light, which could be used after disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or tornadoes to house people who have been displaced.

Since Congress passed the Disaster Relief Act of 1950, the federal government has provided relief and recovery funds after large - scale floods and other disasters.

Governor Sean Parnell declared a disaster there last month after heavy rainfall flooded the Wulik (wool - ick) River and washed away some of the city's surface water piping in August.

After flash floods and landslides killed at least 800 people in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand last month, disaster management authorities are planning to halt rescue [continue reading...]

And in lockstep with The New York Times, The Washington Post's editorial board published a piece after the flooding, claiming the disaster should serve as a «warning» of climate change, complete with social Marxist language.

Patrik Jonsson of the Christian Science Monitor writes: Atlanta flood: After drought, residents caught by surprise: The lesson from the Atlanta flood is that many Americans are unprepared for disaster.

The New Scientist article, «Flooded Out — Retreating glaciers spell disaster for valley communities» was published on 5 June 1999 issue, more than two months after the Down to Earth article.

Thirty - five counties in California — currently enduring a catastrophic drought — were declared disaster areas after rain caused flooding and mudslides.

Nearly three dozen nuclear power plants are inadequately protected against major flooding guaranteed to occur after an upstream dam failure — flooding that could easily lead to an accident or meltdown on the scale of the 2011 nuclear power disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

5) The Hexayurt is an emergency structure which is cheap, self - contained and easily packed for transportation; a Hexayurt village is intended to replace all the infrastructure which might be damaged after a major disaster such as an earthquake or flood.

Though rat infestations after floods are not uncommon, this is «the largest rat disaster the lakeside region has experienced in the last 10 years,» Zuo Shigeng, a local agricultural official, told China Daily.

Several towns in western Hungary were flooded today with a toxic red sludge after the waste product from nearby aluminum processing plant broke through its containment reservoir — killing two, causing dozens of injuries, and creating an environmental disaster on a scale yet to be fully realized.According to the Associated Press, the incident occurred when a reservoir brimming with the toxic sludge, a byproduct from aluminum processing, overtook the levee designed to contain it, flooding two villages 100 miles southwest of Budapest.

Flood insurance is a big financial plus after a disaster such as a hurricane because home insurance doesn't cover flood damage.