by MBJ Staff Published: May 17,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, damage, destruction, disaster, disaster recovery, emergency, emergency loan, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, federal agency, finance, financial institution, loan, natural disaster, small business, tornado, Weather, wind
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The U.S. Small Business Administration reminds homeowners, renters, businesses and non-profit organizations of the deadline to submit disaster loan applications for damages due to the severe storms and tornadoes April 11-12. The deadline to apply for physical damage is June 17. Low-interest disaster loans are available in the following counties: Noxubee County [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 15,2013
Tags: community development, damage, destruction, disaster, disaster recovery, flood, flooding, home, house, hurricane, natural disaster, neighborhood, rain, residence, state agency, storm, storm surge, tropical, wind
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — The Mississippi Development Authority has added $40 million to the post-Katrina Neighborhood Home Program to reach eligible residents initially left off the list. Under the program, contractors are repairing Katrina-damaged homes not covered by previous disaster assistance. Jon Mabry, chief operations officer of MDA’s recovery division, told The Sun Herald 1,200 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 9,2013
Tags: building, damage, destruction, disaster, disaster recovery, hail, hailstorm, natural disaster, roof, severe thunderstorm, state government, thunderstorm, Weather, window
METRO JACKSON — The Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Training Academy in Pearl isn’t the most aesthetically appealing place to train officers these days, its director, Pat Cronin, concedes. The March 18 hailstorms that struck metro Jackson destroyed 87 law enforcement and civilian vehicles parked at the academy when the storms hit, punched holes in roofing [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 6,2013
Tags: aid, assistance, bank, banker, disaster, disaster recovery, emergency, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, finance, financial institution, flood, flooding, hurricane, loan, natural disaster, rain, small business, tropical, Weather, wind
SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI — The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes that June 3 is the filing deadline for federal economic injury disaster loans available in Clarke, George, Greene, Jackson,Lauderdale and Wayne counties as a result of Hurricane Isaac. Under this declaration, the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster [...] [...]
In 2010, Neel-Schaffer reorganized its emergency management activities into True North Emergency Management. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, True North is a full-service emergency management company offering debris removal management/monitoring, automated debris management and emergency management planning/training and exercises. The employment of True North varies depending on the magnitude of disaster response in progress and [...] [...]

Loren Erickson watched from his Hattiesburg home that Sunday in February as an EF-4 tornado ripped through the heart of the Hub City. He feared the worst. “I could see the debris raining out of the top of the tornado — I knew it was going to be bad,” Erickson remembered. After freeing a person [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 3,2013
Tags: city, city government, cleanup, county, county government, damage, debris, destruction, disaster, disaster recovery, municipal, municipality, natural disaster, severe weather, tornado, Weather, wind
HATTIESBURG — Nearly three months after a Feb. 10 tornado hit the Hattiesburg and Lamar County, the debris cleanup operations are winding down. Lamar County road manager Jake Sones tells The Hattiesburg American debris cleanup operations will end this week. Since the tornado, Lamar County crews have collected 25,293 cubic yards of vegetative debris, along [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 2,2013
Tags: aid, bank, banker, banking, damage, destruction, disaster, disaster assistance, disaster recovery, emergency, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, federal agency, finance, financial institution, flood, flooding, hurricane, loan, natural disaster, rain, severe weather, small business, storm surge, topical weather, tornado, tropical, Weather, wind
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding businesses in Mississippi that working capital loans are still available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations affected by Hurricane Isaac. The deadline is May 30. Economic Injury Disaster Loans up to $2 million are available [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 2,2013
Tags: accident, crude oil, disaster, disaster recovery, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoline, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, restaurant, seafood, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — BP PLC is paying $69 million for interactive exhibits at a Hancock County science center, a concrete pathway on the beach at Pascagoula, up to six miles of shoreline and improvements at a park as part of Mississippi Gulf Coast restoration from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gov. Phil Bryant said. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 25,2013
Tags: damage, destruction, disaster, disaster recovery, emergency, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, federal agency, loan, natural disaster, severe weather, small business, tornado, Weather
NOXUBEE COUNTY — The Small Business Administration is offering disaster loans to residents and business owners in Noxubee County affected by a tornado that severely damaged parts of Shuqualak on April 12. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has reported 49 homes and 12 businesses were either destroyed or damaged as a result of the storm. [...] [...]