WV and National Disaster News - September 8, 2023

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WEST VIRGINIA

COVID

• COVID cases slowly ticking upward in West Virginia  (Bluefield Daily Telegraph)

First Responders

• West Virginia expands first responder workforce (WOAY-TV)

Flood Recovery

• Commission provides update on Kanawha County flood recovery  (WSAZ-TV)
• Flood debris pick-up in eastern Kanawha County will be extended  (MetroNews-Radio)
• Final day for flood debris pickup in Kanawha County now Sept. 15  (WOWK-TV)
• Kanawha County estimates over $100,000 in expenses so far from late-August flooding  (MetroNews-Radio)

 
Water Safety

• Order not to use tap water in Paden City, WV enters fourth week after plant malfunction  (WCHS-TV)
• Sen. Shelley Moore Capito speaks on Paden City "Do Not Use" Order  (WTRF-TV) 

Energy

• West Virginia Public Energy Authority receives briefing on Quantum Pleasants project  (The Parkersburg News and Sentinel)

NATIONAL NEWS
 
Condo Collapse in Florida

• ​Federal investigators zero in on deadly condo collapse cause in Surfside, Fla. (Delaware Public Media)

• Residents of four states will get more information about flood risk to their homes (NPR)
  
• FEMA opens disaster recovery center on Chicago's South Side (CBS)

• Northeast, I-95 corridor under threat from another round of storms on Friday (Fox Weather)
• Climate activists protested at Burning Man. Then the climate itself crashed the party (NPR)
  
• Category 4 Hurricane Lee 'rapidly strengthening' across Caribbean (Reuters), related news: AccuWeather
  
• ​Severe weather, flooding downpours to break down late-summer heat in Northeast (AccuWeather) 

Other

• Mobile homes could be a climate solution. So why don't they get more respect? (Grist)
  
• Fossil Fuels Beget Climate Chaos, a Win-Win for Private Equity (Mother Jones) - Disasters have become more intense and destructive, and rebuilding has become more profitable. As the money started pouring in, companies started consolidating, and private equity started circling and buying up these companies," said Saket Soni, director of Resilience Force. “Wage theft and health and safety violations are deeply endemic … and private equity is failing to establish higher standards." 

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