…of Information Technology in partnership with the Governor’s Hurricane Matthew Recovery Office and the Department of Public Safety, allows easy access to detailed funding information for disaster recovery including information by county. The site was initially built to track Hurricane Matthew recovery efforts. The expanded and improved site will track…
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State Asks for Input on Recovery Spending
…would include modifications to the Hurricane Matthew, Hurricane Florence and Mitigation action plans previously approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, and aim to simplify programs and spending across all three grants provided by HUD. The total disaster recovery and mitigation grant funds total more…
Report Links Racial, Environmental Justice
North Carolina National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters fly over flooded areas of eastern North Carolina after Hurricane Matthew October 2016. Photo: U.S. Army National Guard Capt. Michael Wilber Updated 1 p.m. Wednesday to include comments from John Locke Foundation A new report by an independent, nonpartisan policy institute urges North…
Rising Seas Threaten $4 Billion in NC Property
YouTube user Harrison Smith recorded this video Oct. 10, 2016, of flooding in the Ocean Sands neighborhood of Corolla after Hurricane Matthew exited the North Carolina coast. NORTHEASTERN N.C. – Not quite two years ago, the heavens opened over a sandy strand of land wedged between ocean and sound, drowning…
State Now Has Plan For Climate Resilience
…on the front lines of climate change. Less than two years after Hurricane Matthew struck North Carolina, Hurricane Florence ended up being the costliest natural disaster in our history, causing the great state of North Carolina over $17 billion in damage. And last year, Hurricane Dorian hit some of our…
Matthew’s Death Toll Now 22
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety announced Thursday that N.C.’s death toll from Hurricane Matthew had risen to 22, and Gov. McCrory urged caution at a press conference Thrusday afternoon as the Neuse and Tar rivers continue to rise. Gov. Pat McCrory “Stay away from the water not only…
HUD approves NC Florence Funding Plan
…resiliency. Through its ReBuild NC program, office has committed $189.7 million in Hurricane Matthew recovery funds to help storm survivors and remains on pace to administer all funds within federal guidelines. To date, North Carolina has spent more than $3.5 billion in state and federal funding for hurricanes Matthew and…
Currituck Damage Estimated at $2.5 Million
Reprinted from the Outer Banks Voice CURRITUCK COUNTY — Assessors from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have visited Currituck, as the county and others in northeastern North Carolina still await being added to the disaster declaration that will allow individuals to get assistance in recovering from Hurricane Matthew. A home…
DPS Names Recovery and Resiliency Officers
…and stronger,” said Whitehead. “We must improve North Carolina’s resilience, and doing so now will be cheaper in the long run as weather events become more severe and our climate changes.” To date, recovery spending for Hurricane Matthew has been more than $1.14 billion and for Hurricane Florence, $1.58 billion….
Outer Banks Towns Dig For Flooding Fixes
These scenes of flooding in Nags Head and other areas along the Outer Banks after Hurricane Matthew were captured by Baldwin Video Productions and published to YouTube Oct 11, 2016. OUTER BANKS – Considering the prodigious amount of flooding North Carolina’s coastal communities have endured in recent years, stormwater engineers…
Can New Reef Design Save Historic Shoreline?
…pad researchers installed for monitoring purposes, he said. Oysters were showing promise growing on the riprap shredded away during Hurricane Matthew, McKee said. “If we can break down that wave action then the oysters should establish themselves,” he said. Hurricane Matthew in 2016 caused a bluff at the site to…
Official: New Flood Maps Are More Accurate
…the maps are generally very accurate,” Dorman said. “We did about three years of studies on storm surge … and we’ve checked and re-checked and re-checked our models. “We know there are some areas that flooded along the coast (in Hurricane Matthew in early October) more than the maps might…