WV and National Disaster News - October 5, 2023

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WEST VIRGINIA
 
COVID

• 21 new COVID deaths highest West Virginia has seen since March  (The Parkersburg News and Sentinel)
• Can I get COVID booster, flu shot at the same time? (USA Today)

• Railroad repairs underway after Kanawha County summer floods  (WOWK-TV)

• Internet From Space Now Available Throughout W.Va.  (WV Public Broadcasting-Radio) - About 5,000 Space-X Starlink satellites are now orbiting the earth, able to provide internet service to the highest mountain and deepest hollow.

• Mountain Valley Pipeline Builder & Feds Agree to Fix Pipe Corrosion  (WV Public Broadcasing-Radio)

NATIONAL NEWS
 
COVID

• Can I get COVID booster, flu shot at the same time? (USA Today)
• About 4 million Americans got updated COVID vaccines in September (Reuters)
• FDA authorizes Novavax's updated Covid vaccine (NBC News)
• Two scientists win Nobel Prize for research that led to COVID-19 vaccines (NPR)

EAS Test

• That blaring noise you heard? It was a test of the federal government's emergency alert system (ABC News)
• Why didn't that emergency alert turn everyone into zombies? REALLY disappointing (USA Today)

 
Weather

• US winter forecast for the 2023-2024 season (AccuWeather)
• 2023 on track to become another record-breaking year as temperature hits new high (Reuters)
• How Tropical Storm Philippe could muck up weather in the Northeast this weekend (CNN)
• Severe Storms hit Oklahoma & Texas (AccuWeather)
• Dangerous, disruptive flash flood threat looms for parts of Texas (AccuWeather)
• Why This Florida City Is a Safe Haven from Hurricanes (MSN/Wall Street Journal)  

 
Wildfire

• Inslee asks Biden to declare Gray and Oregon Road fires 'major disaster' to unlock more federal aid (Spokesman-Review), related news: KREM News 2
• Gov. Inslee asking President Biden for federal aid amid Gray, Oregon Road fire recovery (KREM News 2)

 
Other

• Two new Lightening deaths reported in US (AccuWeather)