Ohio Receives Federal Disaster Declaration for June Storms

Release:

COLUMBUS – Local governments in 37 Ohio counties are now eligible for federal funds to help pay for damage repair and extra costs they incurred as a result of the June 29 severe storms that caused massive power outages across much of Ohio. The federal funds have been made available as a result of President Barack Obama granting Gov. John R. Kasich’s request for a federal disaster declaration.

The counties eligible for funds are Adams, Allen, Athens, Auglaize, Belmont, Champaign, Clark, Coshocton, Fairfield, Franklin, Gallia, Guernsey, Hancock, Hardin, Harrison, Highland, Hocking, Jackson, Knox, Lawrence, Licking, Logan, Meigs, Miami, Monroe, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, Paulding, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Putnam, Shelby, Van Wert, and Washington.

The funds will be provided through FEMA’s Public Assistance Program, which repays local governments for eligible storm-related response efforts including debris removal, emergency protective measures and the repair, replacement or restoration of disaster-damaged, publicly owned facilities. Estimates developed jointly by FEMA, state and local officials found more than $29.5 million in damages and costs to public property and infrastructure.

“I appreciate the President’s favorable response to my request to make these funds available to local governments. In many communities the response efforts were intense and damage to public buildings was costly and these funds will provide needed relief,” said Kasich.

Ohio EMA will disburse the federal funds upon receipt and processing of all required documentation. Representatives from Ohio EMA and FEMA will meet with local officials to further explain the public assistance application process.

Outbreak of Global Warming Strikes Greater Cincinnati

Women and Children Suffer the Most

CINCINNATI -- Run for your lives! Oh, the destruction in wake of the chill winds of the Great White Death is devestating. Our fair city has been attacked by an sudden outbreak of Global Warming; which is particularly odd since there has not been an Al Gore sighting here in years.

Accredited weather scientists have been warning us for days, but those calls went ignored at our peril. We have only ourselves to blame for this outbreak of Global Warming. If only somebody had the courage to blame Bush, we might have survived this apocolypse with considerable less carnage.

Somewhere, somehow, the appropriate sacrifice must be made to appease Mother Gaia. Greater Cincinnati must establish a major recycling project if we wish to avert this sort of disaster from ever happening again. We believe in hope and I think we can all work together for change. Yes, we can! The future of our beloved tri-state is at stake; each of us must do our part.



9:30AM UPDATE: Total accumlation thus far: slight dusting. Accumulation on the roads: zero. Set condition two throughout the ship! RED ALERT! Go to DEFCON 1!

3/10 UPDATE: WHERE'S MY MUTHA-^$*#@^$(%! FEMA CHECK???! I blame Bush. Heh, you said it, Gordon...

Rove's Weather Machine Update

AP News Alert:

MIAMI (AP) Government forecasters slightly lower their outlook for Atlantic hurricane season, predicting 13 to 16 tropical storms, seven to nine of them hurricanes.

I blame Karl Rove and his Weather Machine...

Wait a minute! Weren't all the liberals saying that global warming was responsible for all of these hurricanes? Well, looks like we don't have to worry about that any more, eh?