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Disaster 101: Your guide to extreme weather preparation, relief, and recovery

2 days 18 hours ago
No matter where you live, extreme weather can hit your area and change your life. Whether it’s a hurricane, winter storm, flash flood, tornado, wildfire, or heat wave, disasters can damage or destroy your home and property, cause lengthy power outages, and stall civic services. Grist created a comprehensive guide to help you stay ready […]
Lyndsey Gilpin

What you should know about disaster recovery 

2 days 19 hours ago
Your guide to this months- or years-long process, from rebuilding your home, to taking care of your mental health, avoiding scams to finding community support after you experience a hurricane, wildfire, flood, or other disaster.
Lyndsey Gilpin

What exactly is a natural disaster?

2 days 19 hours ago
Here are the types of extreme weather you may face — from tornadoes to floods to snow storms — and the officials who determine how severe it is and how financial assistance is distributed.
Lyndsey Gilpin

How disaster relief and response work

2 days 19 hours ago
Your guide to the agencies and programs responsible for emergency services and disaster aid, how to return home and clean up safely, navigate FEMA aid, and more after a hurricane, wildfire, flood, or other disaster.
Lyndsey Gilpin