Tornado Recovery Money Slowing
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Money from the federal government into the state to aid Moore’s tornado recovery has slowed substantially.
Auditing the Storm: Hotel With Disaster Loan Faced Challenges
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The Bricktown Hotel and Convention Center was hit by severe storms in 2009 and 2013, triggering a series of problems and disputes. With the hotel at risk of closing, its owner was offered the largest approved federal loan arising from last year’s disaster.
Disaster Loans Help Businesses, Homeowners
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U.S. Small Business Administration disaster loans are meant to help get people and businesses affected by a disaster back on their feet.
Federal Disaster Loans Present Dilemma for Storm Victims
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The tornadoes and storms that struck Oklahoma last year left hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage. Offers of federal loans were made to more than 900 victims, but not all saw the loan offers as a good deal.
Approved Disaster Loans by City
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A look at numbers and amounts of disaster loans approved in each of
State, Cities Scramble to Spend Community Storm Grants
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Auditing the Storm: More than half of the federal relief funds tied to Disaster 4117 are in the form of community grants. But there are conditions and deadlines, and residents may have opinions on how to spend the money.
Moore, Other Damaged Areas Shut Out of Prevention Aid
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Auditing the Storm: Federal disaster aid that pays for home storm shelters, weather radios, sirens and other preventive projects were not available to Moore, Norman and other affected areas after the 2013 storms.
Hazard Protection Projects
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The recipients of the largest hazard-mitigation projects so far tied to Disaster 4117 were already in line to get funds when the storms hit.
Hazard-Prevention Aid by County
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Hazard-protection projects have been approved in 14 counties so far.
Counties With Approved Mitigation Plans
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More than 40 percent of Oklahoma’s counties do not have a hazard-mitigation plans, making them ineligible for project funds should a disaster occur