Financial aid lags massive damage from WA’s December floods
While state officials estimate the disaster destroyed some $182 million worth of public infrastructure — roads, bridges, culverts and the like — no similar estimate exists for homes, businesses, cars or personal property or disruptions of livelihoods. The vast majority of money handed out has come from insurance claims. That help won’t come for everybody, however. Few people living in Washington’s flood-prone areas carry flood insurance. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Erika Schultz)
Record gas prices are hurting already struggling WA farmers. How bad is it?
High fuel costs don’t just affect consumers. Producers in the state are also hurting. The agricultural sector is in a particularly rough spot, with high energy prices coming on the heels of other costly increases in recent years. Continue reading at The News Tribune. (Bob Brawdy)
As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages
From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that usually blankets the high country well into the summer. That snowpack is like a savings account that the West draws on when the hot, dry months arrive… This year, Western states are heading into the summer with a desperately low balance — threatening wildfires, drinking water, crops, electricity and more. Continue reading at Washington State Standard. (Courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)
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