WV and National Disaster News - February 29, 2024

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WEST VIRGINIA
 
Addiction Recovery

• Beckley First US City To Earn International Status For Addiction Recovery Support  (West Virginia Public Broadcasting-Radio)

Flood Plan Public Notice

• PUBLIC NOTICE - CITY OF PRINCETON USDA APPLICATION INTENT TO CONVERT FEMA FLOODPLAN  (Bluefield Daily Telegraph) 

• West Virginia House passes bill to allow religious exemptions for student vaccines  (The Associated Press) 

• Severe storms lead to high water, school closures and outages Wednesday  (WCHS-TV)
• Flooding, drainage issues reported in Nitro  (WSAZ-TV)
• Severe weather brings high winds, flooding to West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky  (WOWK-TV)
• Some counties remain under flood warnings following heavy rain  (MetroNews-Radio)
• 2 school districts closing early due to high water (Microsoft Start)

Water Crisis in 2014

• WSAZ Investigates | Coming back from Crisis (WSAZ-TV)

NATIONAL NEWS
 
Weather, Fire Danger

• Roller-coaster ride for Northeast as cold, warmth flip-flop (AccuWeather)
• Warm, windy weather to increase fire danger across the central US by the weekend (AccuWeather)
• Biggest storm of winter to bury part of Sierra Nevada with over 100 inches of snow (AccuWeather)

Wildfire

• Massive wildfire burns homes, explodes into 2nd-largest in Texas history (AccuWeather), related news: Weather Channel and  R​euters 

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