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News21 State Of Emergency Episode 4: A Rising Threat
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Unprecedented events are catching farmers and small towns unprepared. The finale in News21’s State of Emergency documentary series.
IowaWatch (https://www.iowawatch.org/series/state-of-emergency-a-news21-report/)
Unprecedented events are catching farmers and small towns unprepared. The finale in News21’s State of Emergency documentary series.
Wildfires are becoming an ever more present threat and forcing communities in the western United States to learn to live with them. Episode 3 of News21’s State of Emergency series.
A tornado leaves a scar in communities, but also leaves in its victims. Episode 2 of the News21 documentary series starts in Platteville, Wisconsin.
Hurricane survivors say deciding to leave when a storm hits is easy compared to the aftermath — dealing with wind and flood damage, and psychological trauma that lasts for weeks, months, even lifetimes. Episode one of News21’s four-part documentary series “State of Emergency.”
Research shows that recovery from natural disasters needs to go deeper than repairing homes and communities. Survivors need mental health help too.
Even after record flooding in the Midwest, people with ties to the land — whose livelihoods depend on living close to waterways — don’t want to move.
In the last decade, natural disasters have displaced nearly 7.3 million Americans leaving them in hotels, trailers, strangers homes, and some — on the streets. This News21 story includes reporting from Iowa.
A News21 analysis of Federal Emergency Management Agency data shows those smaller disasters accounted for more than 60 percent of all federally declared disasters between 2003 and 2018 but received at least $57.3 billion less in public assistance from FEMA.