by MBJ Staff Published: January 11,2013
Tags: award, disaster, disaster recovery, electricity, emergency, energy, flood, flooding, hurricane, natural disaster, poweer, rain, response, storm surge, superstorm, tornado, utility, Weather, wind
NEW ORLEANS — The Edison Electric Institute has again honored Entergy Corporation with the association’s 2012 Emergency Recovery Award and Emergency Assistance Award, this time for the utility’s work restoring power to its own customers following Hurricane Isaac and to customers of other utilities after Hurricane Sandy and last June’s derecho weather event. This is [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 7,2013
Tags: agency, damage, disaster, disaster recovery, emergency, entrepreneur, federal, flood, flooding, government, loan, loss, natural disaster, rain, small business, storm, sweather, tornado, wind
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — Residents and businesses in Mississippi affected by severe storms and tornadoes on Dec. 25 can apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The declaration covers Pearl River County and the adjacent counties of Forrest, Hancock, Harrison, Lamar, Marion and Stone. The SBA is opening an outreach center in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 7,2013
Tags: appropriation, borrow, budget, city, emergency, energy, finaces, fund, government, loan, municipal, municipality, natural gas, property, tax
OLIVE BRANCH — Olive Branch officials will borrow $1 million from the city’s natural gas fund to meet financial obligations. Mayor Sam Rikard tells the Commercial Appeal the funds would be repaid with interest once property tax collections come in. It’s not uncommon for cities to take out tax anticipation loans. Officials may borrow from [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 20,2012
Tags: agency, disaster, emergency, foundation, government, health, health care, medical, medicine, preparedness, public health, rank, ranking, report, state, study
JACKSON — The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) has received an eight out of 10 possible points for emergency preparedness in a Robert Wood Johnson’s Trust for America’s Health recently released report. Mississippi is one of only five states to receive eight points. Other states include Maryland, North Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin. According to [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 10,2012
Tags: disaster, disaster assistance, disaster preparedness, emergency, executive, federal, government, hurricane, law, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, natural disaster, severe weather, storm, tropical, Weather
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is asking Obama administration officials to support changing federal disaster laws that draw out recovery work following major disasters. Cochran serves on the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee that conducted a hearing on Hurricane Sandy response and recovery issues. The hearing occurred as congressional appropriations panels await [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 27,2012
Tags: barge, boat, boatert, boating, drought, emergency, navigation, rain, river, ship, shipper, shipping, transportation, water
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri may seek a presidential emergency declaration in an effort to keep barges moving on the drought-riddled Mississippi River. The Army Corps of Engineers on Friday began reducing the outflow from an upper Missouri River dam in South Dakota. That means less water coming down the Missouri [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 30,2012
Tags: disaster recovery, electricity, emergency, emergency management, energy, first responders, hurricane, natural disaster, power, rain, rescue, snow, storm, storm surge, tornado, tropical, Weather, wind
NORTHEASTERN U.S. — The State of Mississippi is sending more aid to areas in the path of Hurricane Sandy, and a utility is sending more personnel to assist in restoring power. Three swift water rescue teams made up of task force members from all over the state are deploying to Maryland to assist with rescue [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 19,2012
Tags: dredge, dredger, dredging, drought, dry, emergency, federal government, low, navigation, port, river, transportation, travel, water, water level
VICKSBURG — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bringing in a contract dredge from Greenville to work at the Port of Vicksburg by next week. Corps officials tell the Vicksburg Post the Dredge Iowa is, owned by Illinois-based Great Lakes Barge Dredge and Dock Company. Corps spokesman Kavanaugh Breazeale says the dredge was to [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 12,2012
Tags: aid, assistance, emergency, employment, entrepreneur, hurricane, job, loan, natural disaster, small business, storm, tropical, Weather, work
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The U.S. Small Business Administration is making available federal economic injury disaster loans to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes located in Clarke, George, Greene, Jackson, Lauderdale and Wayne counties in Mississippi as a result of the excessive rain, high [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 3,2012
Tags: disaster, disaster preparedness, emergency, engineering, first responder, flood, flooding, geotechnical, higher education, natural disaster, response, state agency, university
MISSISSIPPI DELTA — The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has funded a University of Mississippi project to assist local emergency response agencies in the Delta in preparing for flood-related disasters. “Flood Risk Assessment and Vulnerability Associated with Mississippi River Levees” is a $470,776 study that began in June 2011 and continues through April 2013. Geological and [...] [...]
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