NORTH MISSISSIPPI — The Tennessee Valley Authority says a lack of rainfall has hydroelectric generation running 12 percent below normal. Hydro is TVA’s cheapest source of electricity, but accounts for only about 8 percent of the power the federal utility produces. The lower water level in the reservoirs might have more effect on recreation, including [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 16,2012
Tags: banking, Banks, disaster recovery, disasters, drought, dry, federal agency, financial institutions, heat, loans, losses, natural disasters, severe weather, small businesses, Weather
ACROSS 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 14 is the filing deadline for federal economic injury disaster loans available in Mississippi as a result of the drought and excessive heat that occurred [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 12,2012
Tags: banking and finance, Banks, disaster, disaster declaration, disaster recovery, drought, financial institutions, heat, loans, natural disaster, small businesses
BENTON COUNTY and MARSHALL COUNTY — The U.S. Small Business Administration’s economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes located in Benton and Marshall counties in Mississippi as a result of drought and excessive heat that occurred from [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 5,2012
Tags: businesses, damages, drought, flooding, floods, hail, homes, houses, insurance, rain, residences, severe weather, tornadoes, tropical storms, tropical weather, Weather, wind
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Insurance companies will pay more than $32 billion in claims to help people rebuild homes and businesses damaged or destroyed by natural disasters in 2011, a record year for federal disaster declarations, according to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.). “Catastrophes striking the United States in the first nine months of 2011 caused [...] [...]
Bad weather made 2011 a year to forget. The losses from tornadoes, flooding and drought are still being calculated. In April, the state suffered one of the worst tornado outbreaks in history. Hardest hit was the Town of Smithville, a community of less than 1,000 that was hit by an EF-5 tornado on April 27 [...] [...]
Back in the summer, the peanut industry was facing a crisis. The extended drought had affected nearly half of the state’s peanut growers, and they were looking at a bad, perhaps disastrous, year. But, the same September rains from Tropical Storm Lee that saved pecan growers turned the season around for peanut farmers. Instead of [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 26,2011
Tags: banking and finance, Banks, disaster, disaster loans, disaster recovery, drought, financial institutions, heat, loans, natural disaster, severe weather, small businesses, Weather
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The U.S. Small Business Administration’s economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes located in Mississippi as a result of drought and excessive heat that occurred from Jan. 1 – Aug. 30, 2011. “When the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 17,2011
Tags: agriculture, disaster, disaster recovery, drought, farmers, farming, farms, federal government, flooding, floods, hail, natural disaster, rains, severe weather, tornadoes, Weather, wind
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Shortcomings in a federal agriculture disaster assistance program to advocate for reforms to ensure timely benefits for farmers who lose crops to flooding or other disasters, according to U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.). Cochran addressed problems with the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program (SURE) at a Senate Homeland Security Appropriations hearing that [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 17,2011
Tags: agriculture, disaster, disaster recovery, drought, farmers, farms, flooding, floods, hail, heat, natural disaster, rain, severe weather, tornadoes, tropical storm, tropical weather, Weather, wind
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 12 counties in Mississippi as agricultural disaster areas for 2011. The USDA says its declaration is based on combined effects of severe storms, tornadoes, severe spring flooding, Tropical Storm Lee, widespread drought and excessive heat since Jan. 1. The declaration means farmers who lost money [...] [...]
The drought in Texas has left pastures brown and cattlemen and horse owners in a hay-buying frenzy to feed their hungry animals. Now, local horse owners are worried that there will not be enough hay to get through the upcoming winter. Stephanie Billingsley of Mississippihorses.org said, “We are afraid… >>SEE FULL STORY<< Related story: Sod [...] [...]
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