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When it snows in Nashville, these streets get cleared first

By Miriam Kramer

January 9, 2025

An interactive map from Metro Nashville shows what streets get priority for snow removal. Explore it now.

Filed Under: Environment, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: severe weather, snow

Winter storm brings challenges — and snow joy — to Tennessee

By Cynthia Abrams, Char Daston, Tony GonzalezandRachel Iacovone

January 8, 2025

Life in Middle Tennessee is expected to grind to a halt Friday as a major snowfall sweeps through — the culmination of days of escalating warnings and the potential for 8 inches of snow in some places.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Cold weather, National Weather Service, severe weather, snow, TEMA, winter weather

How misinformation spread rapidly in Tennessee after Hurricane Helene

By Pierce Gentry, WUOTandJacqui Sieber, WUOT

January 7, 2025

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Since FEMA arrived in East Tennessee, the agency set up five disaster recovery centers and approved 6,600 applications and $25 million in aid. But many people have expressed skepticism or downright distrust of the agency.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: FEMA, Hurricane Helene, severe weather, Tim Burchett

Nashville just had its hottest year on record, for the 2nd year in a row

By Caroline Eggers

January 3, 2025

Nashville experienced its hottest year on record in 2024, breaking the record set in 2023.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: 2024 Year in Review, drought, heat, severe weather

Here’s a look at the $100 billion in disaster relief in the government spending bill

By The Associated Press

December 24, 2024

The money is being provided after back-to-back hurricanes slammed into the Southeast. But the funding will go to much more than just Helene and Milton recovery. There’s also disaster assistance for farmers, money for damaged roads and highways and money for block grants.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: disaster, FEMA, Hurricane Helene, severe weather

Long-term recovery from the 2023 tornado and Hurricane Helene

By Mary Mancini

December 12, 2024

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For those impacted by natural disasters, the holiday season will be very different this year.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Alex Dorman, Andrea Prince, Andrew Joyner, Dawn Day, East Tennessee Foundation, East Tennessee State University, Extreme weather, Hands On Nashville, Hurricane Helene, Long-term Recovery Group, Nashville Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, severe weather, tornado, tornadoes, United Way of Greater Nashville

Unicoi County Animal Shelter faces a long road to full recovery

By Jacqui Sieber, WUOT

November 18, 2024

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Shelter director Cody Walker says that it could take at least one year until the shelter is fully restored.

Filed Under: Business, Environment Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, East Tennessee, Extreme weather, Flooding, Hurricane Helene, severe weather, WUOT

Tennessee offers little relief for farmers wrecked by Helene

By Pierce Gentry, WUOT

October 28, 2024

Tennessee’s Department of Agriculture says they lack the funding to help farms wrecked by flooding in East Tennessee.

Filed Under: Business, Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: agriculture, Extreme weather, farmers, Hurricane Helene, severe weather

Witnesses saw an armed group harassing Helene aid workers in a small Tennessee town, sheriff says

By Kimberlee Kruesi, APandSarah Brumfield, AP

October 17, 2024

Carter County Sheriff Mike Farley said the harassment of Federal Emergency Management Agency workers happened Saturday in the remote community of Elk Mills. No arrests were made, but he says the small group of armed people who showed up were looking to cause trouble.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, Extreme weather, Hurricane Helene, severe weather

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