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This group was founded more than 40 years ago in response to the challenges many disaster organizations experienced following Hurricane Camille, a Category 5 storm that hit the Gulf Coast in August 1969.

Vehicles from across the United States are converging on Nebraska, filled with hay, livestock feed, food and household goods.

Cars are abandoned in flood waters on North Cincinnati near Skiatook on Thursday, May 23, 2019. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World

The Georgia Department of Labor announced that $4 million had been approved to hire the unemployed to help with cleanup efforts. Dougherty County commissioners approved allowing National Guard troops that had been sleeping in church shelters to be housed in the new county jail, which has yet to be used for its intended purpose. Water still covered 300,00 acres of cropland in Georgia with an estimated loss of $100 million.

Using a tripod like this is not very wise. Don’t use the center column unless you really really need to.

Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. By tracking both inventors and assignees in the region, we aim to provide a broader view of the region’s inventive activity. Listings are organized by Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC). 

Keith Allison (left) and Allen Shonk walk on Thursday, Sept. 24, 1993, on debris-covered railroad tracks in the Chesterfield Valley. File photo by J.B. Forbes

Inventor(s): Jane Dunne Cooke (Dallas, TX), Mary Caroline Nix (Dallas, TX) Assignee(s): THE BIG O, LLC (Dallas, TX) Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros) Application No., Date, Speed: 15966700 on 04/30/2018 (428 days app to issue)

Nebraskans are nervously scanning the skies and checking their basements for water creeping in as forecasters and home contractors warn of flooding that could do some damage. 

We’ll jump right to the main problem, and the one that will allow me to drive this fine machine through salty Michigan winters without feeling too much guilt: This Jeep has rust. Not a lot, but enough that repairing this XJ to perfection would take some serious time and effort.

The Flint River is one of the least obstructed rivers in the country, with only two dams blocking its flow. Neither the dam on Lake Blackshear in Cordele nor the Georgia Power Dam in Albany was designed for flood control. In 1973, a proposed federal project to build more dams along the Flint was stopped by then Gov. Jimmy Carter citing environmental concerns. The Corps of Engineers determined that these dams would have had no significant impact on this historical flood.