Month: December 2022

RALEIGH, N.C. — State lawmakers on Wednesday grilled the leaders of the state’s disaster recovery program about why residents who suffered hurricane damage are still waiting for relief. The last time the disaster recovery oversight committee met in September, lawmakers told leaders of the state program, Rebuild NC, that they wanted all families back in their homes by this month. Out of the 100 families who’ve waited the longest, 18 have been able to return…

DALLAS — A destructive storm marched across the United States, spawning tornadoes that touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, where two deaths were reported, and it delivered blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains and threatened more severe weather Wednesday in the South. A young boy was found dead in the Pecan Farms area of Keithville, Louisiana, where his home was destroyed Tuesday after a tornado hit about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from…

Progress is being made by a state-run program that is meant to help hurricane victims get back into their once storm-damaged homes, but is it enough? “I’m really frustrated because I think I should be home now,” Danisa Raye said to ABC11 Troubleshooter Diane Wilson. Raye contacted Wilson in August after seeing several of Wilson’s investigations into the NC-run program called Rebuild NC, which is a program run by the North Carolina Office of Recovery…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A massive storm blowing across the country spawned tornadoes in parts of Oklahoma and Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, as much of the central United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest braced Tuesday for blizzard-like conditions. An area stretching from Montana into western Nebraska and Colorado was under blizzard warnings, and the National Weather Service said that as much as 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow was possible…