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FEMA beginnings trace to great 1927 flood — but now may be on chopping block

FEMA’s beginnings trace to great 1927 Mississippi River flood, but now may be on chopping blockby Shirley Wimbish Gray, Mississippi Today July 2, 2025Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our state’s past, present and future. You can read more about the section here.On the evening of April 5, my phone and our community’s emergency siren both started …

‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding

As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials from across the country scrambling for answers.

Town left stranded in attempt to build back after hurricane amid FEMA cuts: 'That leaves us in limbo land'

Nine months after it hit, a North Carolina town is still dealing with the aftermath of a deadly hurricane, and a lack of federal aid is leaving its residents "in limbo." What's happening? Last September, Hurricane Helene ravaged the Southeast. The storm, which landed as a Category 4 hurricane, killed more than 230 people across six states. More than 100 of those deaths occurred in North Carolina, and new photos published in The Guardian show the…

States fear critical funding from FEMA may be drying up | The Highland County Press

Upheaval at the nation’s top disaster agency is raising anxiety among state and local emergency managers — and leaving major questions about the whereabouts of billions of federal dollars it pays out to them.

North Carolinians' opinions on FEMA Recovery Funding

By Michael Bitzer In North Carolina, many western counties are still rebuilding and trying to get their lives back to 'normalcy' following t...

FEMA Calls May Come from Unfamiliar Phone Numbers

After Oklahoma residents apply for disaster assistance, they may receive a call from FEMA seeking more information to process the application, or to schedule an inspection. Survivors should remember that these calls often come with unfamiliar area codes and phone numbers.