Sentences with phrase «damaged infrastructure»

FEMA provides grants to local governments to rebuild damaged infrastructure at a reasonable cost.

The cost of the damaged exceeded $ 49 million, triggering FEMA's public assistance program that provides reimbursement for municipalities following a disaster, helping pay for debris removal, emergency measures such as road clearance and repair as well as the rebuilding of damaged infrastructure.

Overwash accumulating each year will also damage the infrastructure on these islands, making it much harder for potable water resources to recover from storm events.

Fixing damaged infrastructure has been an insurmountable challenge for responders in Puerto Rico.

They also don't damage the infrastructure as much as conventional weapons making them more desirable if someone wants to retake the territory later.

But Cuomo, in formally announcing his veto, said al - Qaida has threatened to target such facilities and superstorm Sandy was powerful enough to damage infrastructure built to survive 100 - year storms.

Agriculture and Markets Commissioner Darrel Aubertine, who has been made co-chairman of a cabinet - level task force charged with repairing storm damaged infrastructure, said

Asked to respond to Cuomo's threats, a Con Ed spokesperson said the company's focus is on restoring damaged infrastructure and getting every customer back in service.

We intend to help rebuild our economy, resuscitate damaged infrastructure, restore hope and return our state to a prosperous land.

Rising global temperatures and associated sea level rise, growing season disruption, and increasingly severe weather events can severely damage infrastructure or tear at the fabric of societies — generating conditions of mass desperation the world over.

Infrastructure across the U.S. is being adversely affected by phenomena associated with climate change, including sea level rise, storm surge, heavy downpours, and extreme heat... Floods along the nation's rivers, inside cities, and on lakes following heavy downpours, prolonged rains, and rapid melting of snowpack are damaging infrastructure in towns and cities, farmlands, and a variety of other places across the nation.

He said that he had compiled a list of damaged infrastructure, including schools and bridges and handed it to the leaders of the G7 and the United States, adding that «I didn't ask for a Kobo (in cash).

«For example, conflict will not just cause disruption in its own right, it will also damage infrastructure, overburden hospitals, and undermine the availability of goods, services and recreational activities.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that the Monroe County towns of Greece and Parma are using the state funding to cover emergency costs and to rebuild damaged infrastructure.

When the floodwaters recede and Houston looks toward repairing and rebuilding its damaged infrastructure, there very may well be state and local officials advocating for more mitigation projects.

It is not meant to fund more permanent repairs to damaged infrastructure.

At least six fatalities are confirmed in New York, flooding has damaged infrastructure and homes, and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses remain without electricity.

Although California's recent unprecedented rains were likely to damage infrastructure, standard risk assessments made it hard to identify which bridges were most vulnerable.

The selective entry avoided many of the problems existing at the primary level, such as overcrowded classrooms, damaged infrastructure, and overwhelmed teachers.

Frequent and intense heatwaves threaten our workers» health and damage our infrastructure.

This guidance document explains how climate change is already hurting the rural poor, damaging infrastructure, depressing crop yields, jeopardizing fish stocks, eroding natural resources and endangering species, causing significant damage to agriculture, water resources, ecosystems, and human health.

One of the most concerning aspects of global warming is the potential for rising seas to damage infrastructure and property and displace a large proportion of our planet's population.

See how global warming is damaging infrastructure in Alaska — and find other hot spots with cost impacts on the Climate Hot Map.

My point is that global warming is likely to damage our infrastructure.

Beyond the tragic fatalities that can result directly, extreme weather events can damage infrastructure, jeopardizing access to lifesaving care for extended periods of time, and can compromise water quality and food supplies.

Beach erosion, damaged infrastructure, like roads and bridges, power outages or closed attractions, such as theme parks, are not a part of this coverage.

In doing so, officials can hire some of the best professionals in the world, be swaying them to put their skills to the test for the «right cause», rather than damaging the infrastructure.