The following is a release from the Governors office:
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
approved Virginia’s request for
10 localities to be added to the pre-landfall emergency declaration that was
issued Aug. 26, before the arrival of Hurricane Irene.
This federal emergency declaration does not
provide disaster assistance to individuals. There is a separate process, which
is under way, to request that assistance.
“I asked
the President to add these localities because of the severe impact Irene had
across the eastern half of the Commonwealth,” said Governor McDonnell.
“We want to do everything we can to assure a fully coordinated response to this
disaster on the local, state and federal levels. These additions allow us the
maximum ability to do so.
These localities were added at the governor’s
request: Essex, Gloucester,
Henrico, King George, King and Queen, Louisa, Surry,
Sussex and York,
and the city of Richmond. These
localities had to engage in extensive preparations to respond as the storm
covered more of Virginia’s inland
areas than predicted.
The President’s pre-landfall emergency
declaration originally included the counties of Accomack, Northampton,
Isle of Wight, James
City, Lancaster,
Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond,
Westmoreland and New Kent, and the independent cities of Chesapeake,
Hampton, Newport
News, Norfolk,
Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk,
Virginia Beach and Williamsburg.
A pre-landfall emergency declaration
allows FEMA to provide supplies, equipment and other needed resources to state
and local officials responding to the storm."
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