FLORIDA EMERGENCY INFORMATION

• Florida's pandemic death toll may be undercounted by 8,000 29 Oct 2020 03:11 Florida's 2020 death toll is as many as 8,000 fatalities higher than a usual year's, even beyond the deaths directly caused by COVID-19, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.  The sunshine state saw as …
• Feds award $39M in loans, grants for Sally so far to homeowners, renters 28 Oct 2020 11:52 The federal government has approved more than $21 million in loans for Florida's Hurricane Sally victims and another almost $18.5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency grants. Both are a part of the individual assistance response for …
• Pensacola bracing for rain, tornadoes, storm surge 26 Oct 2020 22:29 More than a month after Hurricane Sally caught many Pensacola residents off guard, Northwest Florida is again bracing for a storm that is making its way toward the Gulf Coast this week.  Shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, the National Hurricane Center confirmed …
• County proposes $2.26 million project to repair sand dunes areas on south beaches 26 Oct 2020 20:13 Brevard County's environmental officials are proposing a $2.26 million project to shore up the south beaches dunes area, parts of which were damaged by high winds and waves in September. The money would come from reserves in the Space Coast Office of …
• Ops Jobs; Retention, AI, Non-QM, Accounting Products; Southeast Disaster Updates 26 Oct 2020 16:56 The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. Vendor M&A is rampant (the latest being First American acquiring ServiceMac). Although there is no way that the “experts” could have predicted the combination of the …
• FEMA approves $11.4 million for Cal-Lib Hospital re-construction 20 Oct 2020 22:27 PANAMA CITY, Fla. — FEMA has approved $11,438,155 to reimburse Calhoun Liberty Hospital Association, Inc. for repairs after Hurricane Michael. The funds will reimburse the hospital for the cost of rebuilding the structure in Blountstown and hardening it to …
• $26 million in federal Hurricane Sally aid approved for Escambia County households 20 Oct 2020 11:44 The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved almost $26 million in aid for Escambia County residents affected by Hurricane Sally. FEMA approved individual assistance on Oct. 2, a little more than two weeks after Hurricane Sally soaked the Gulf …
• Trump Rejects, Then Grants Wildfire Disaster Aid to California 17 Oct 2020 02:22 Burned vehicles sit completely destroyed after the Creek Fire swept through the area on September 8, 2020, near Shaver Lake, California. Photo: David McNew/Getty Images President Trump has reversed a White House–approved rejection of federal disaster …