ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION
THE FOLLOWING IS INFORMATION ON THE FLOOD VICTIM ASSITANCE CENTER WHICH WAS MENTIONED IN YESTERDAY'S POST. THEY REFER TO IT AS A "MARC".
(Our volunteer agency partners come from a wide spectrum of great non-profit and faith-based organizations whose sole purpose it is to help people in the time of an emergency. If you have been flooded and need additional assistance, please do not hesitate to utilize resources they have to offe...r)
"The American Red Cross is partnering with other local disaster assistance organizations to open a “one-stop shop” for affected homes of Box Elder Flooding.
On Wednesday February 22, 2017 the Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC) will be open from 7:30pm to 9:00pm at the Aldersgate United Methodist Church 235 East 850 South, Brigham City.
Trained caseworkers will be available at the MARC to help people create personal recovery plans, navigate paperwork, and locate assistance for their specific disaster-caused needs. Representatives from multiple government, nonprofit, and religiously-affiliated disaster relief organizations will also be on hand at the MARC to assist disaster survivors.
Questions may be sent to the Red Cross at 810-627-0000 or emailing bill.pope@redcross.org
PLEASE SHARE AND TAKE THIS INFO WITH ANYONE YOU KNOW HAS BEEN FLOODED AND NEEDS ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE.
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Crews begin repairing a pair of railroad tracks near the Utah-Nevada border that were nearly washed away when the Twentyone Mile Dam in Elko County, Nevada, failed on Wednesday.
View more scenes from the repair project here: http://www.deseretnews.com/…/Crews-try-to-get-things-on-the…
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HEADS UP! If you have had flooding problems and need additional assistance, we are working to establish a FLOOD VICTIM ASSISTANCE CENTER here in the county. We are working with the Red Cross and other volunteer organizations who can provide a spectrum of assistance from mucking out flooded basements, to making building repairs, to limited financial assistance. Be prepared to provide documentation of your circumstances. Please share this information with anyone in such a situation, and have them watch this Facebok Page. Full details will be forth coming as resources are established.
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The Bear River is running above flood level it's entire length, and could drop a little bit by Wednesday. Our problem is that it going to get warm again by Thursday, and we will have rain again. This may result in increases of flow through Cutler Dam again.
The "sheet flooding" we have seen across many fields in the county may continue to create problems for homes built next to those fields, especially as we see temperatures start to rise again.
Yard snow melt will also continue to be problem as it warms. This will more of an issue for those in the middle and northern areas of the county where snowpack is still notable.
