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The Year of the Flood

September 13, 2016 Cora Russell, Office of Emergency Management, Disaster Response Coordinator, USDA's Food and Nutrition Service

Incidents described as “thousand year storms and floods” and “the worst U.S. disaster since Hurricane Sandy” claimed the lives of more than 58 people in Louisiana, West Virginia and South Carolina over the last year. These disasters often remind us of the devastating impacts that families and their...

Conservation Food and Nutrition

Are You and Your Pets Ready in an Emergency?

September 07, 2016 Anne McCann, APHIS Animal Care Emergency Programs Coordinator, and Tanya Espinosa, APHIS Public Affairs

We are reminded often throughout the year of the devastating impacts that families and their communities experience when natural disasters such as, floods, mudslides, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes and hurricanes strike. Because September is National Preparedness Month, it is a good time to think...

Animals Plants
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