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LAKE LURE, NORTH CAROLINA, JUL 2 – Lake Lure struggles to recover from Hurricane Helene as FEMA reduces federal funding to 90%, leaving local officials and residents facing costly repairs and uncertainty, a recent survey shows.
- Starting in the middle of April, levees stretching from Illinois to Louisiana failed, resulting in turbulent waters inundating farmland and communities.
- This flooding event coincided with President Trump advocating to reduce FEMA's role and transfer disaster response duties to state governments.
- In the western counties of North Carolina, recovery efforts continue months after Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 storm in September 2024, while FEMA has reduced its federal reimbursement for these efforts from full coverage to 90%.
- A June 2025 survey showed 64% of Helene-impacted respondents disapproved of FEMA's partial funding, with town commissioner Dave DiOrio calling it a 'de-scoping of FEMA' leaving residents 'in limbo land.'
- These factors indicate increasing strain on federal disaster aid amid more frequent natural disasters, with administration plans to overhaul FEMA and shift recovery responsibility to states.
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FEMA’s beginnings trace to great 1927 Mississippi River flood, but now may be on chopping blockby Shirley Wimbish Gray, Mississippi Today July 2, 2025Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our state’s past, present and future. You can read more about the section here.On the evening of April 5, my phone and our community’s emergency siren both started …
‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding
As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials from across the country scrambling for answers.
Town left stranded in attempt to build back after hurricane amid FEMA cuts: 'That leaves us in limbo land'
Nine months after it hit, a North Carolina town is still dealing with the aftermath of a deadly hurricane, and a lack of federal aid is leaving its residents "in limbo." What's happening? Last September, Hurricane Helene ravaged the Southeast. The storm, which landed as a Category 4 hurricane, killed more than 230 people across six states. More than 100 of those deaths occurred in North Carolina, and new photos published in The Guardian show the…
FEMA Calls May Come from Unfamiliar Phone Numbers
After Oklahoma residents apply for disaster assistance, they may receive a call from FEMA seeking more information to process the application, or to schedule an inspection. Survivors should remember that these calls often come with unfamiliar area codes and phone numbers.
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