FEMA denies 4 more counties for federal disaster assistance from summer flooding - West Virginia MetroNews

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The authorities continues to onslaught retired erstwhile it comes to national catastrophe assistance from summertime floods.

GE McCabe

State Emergency Management Division Director GE McCabe said the authorities learned Monday that requests for Doddridge, Jackson, Mingo and Wyoming counties person been turned down. The authorities made the requests aft flooding from mid-July to mid-August.

McCabe said the authorities and FEMA disagree connected however the harm from the storms should beryllium calculated. The authorities believes determination were 4 storms that should beryllium counted arsenic 1 but the national authorities says the storms were separate.

“The grounds continued to beryllium saturated and the runoff from these storms created these flooding events but FEMA and the National Weather Service person classified these storms arsenic 4 abstracted events which plays into their (rejection) decision,” McCabe said.“ Breaking the bid of storms that swept crossed the authorities from precocious July to mid-August into abstracted events makes it difficult, if not impossible, to conscionable FEMA’s thresholds to suffice for assistance.”

The authorities plans an appeal. Gov. Jim Justice said helium supports that.

Jim Justice

“I mean for crying retired loud, if it rains and the crushed gets saturated and past we person nary existent relief,” Justice said.

Justice seemed to blasted the rejections successful portion connected Washington politics.

“We’re pushing. We’re pushing arsenic hard arsenic we tin but Washington tin beryllium Washington guys and truthful we’re going to support astatine it,” Justice said.

Kanawha County was turned down past week for backing from an Aug. 15 flood.

Only McDowell and Fayette counties were approved for national catastrophe assistance from the summertime flooding, each region has received a declaration for nationalist assistance.