Disasters

Officials with the U.S. Small Business Administration are touring Douglas County to view damage from a flood there in late June.
Since June 1, Wisconsin officials say up to 19 people have died as a result of the extreme heat. With essentially the same weather, Minnesota has reported zero. Is there an explanation for the disparity?
Unspent disaster aid
A story in a Winona newspaper today might make you pause to wonder how much disaster aid the federal and/or state governments distributes, actually goes to fixing the damage of disasters.
More than 350 volunteers have joined authorities in searching for two young cousins from Iowa whose bicycles were found abandoned near a lake.