While Trump is revising, the survivors of Mississippi Tornado are waiting for help with help

By Sophie Bates, Associated Press

Tylertown, Miss. (AP) – More than two months after a tornado has destroyed his house, Brian Lowery still looks through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip that his mother gave him, made of the middle stone of her wedding ring.

“I still have hope,” said Lowery.

Lowery regards himself as happiness. He, his wife and the 13-year-old son made the safety before the Tornado tore apart their 15-year-old trailer. Despite his positive view, Lowery admits that he is frustrated; Mississippi’s request for federal help is still being processed before the Federal Emergency Management AgencyWhich means that help is desperately needed has not yet achieved his hard -struck community of Tylertown.

“I don’t know what you have to do or what you should be able to be explained for a federal disaster area because this is pretty bad,” Lowery said. “We can’t help you, because whatever, we are waiting for a letter; we are waiting for someone to sign his name. You know that everything. I’m just about it.”

Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves asked the Trump government for a large disaster statement on 1 April 18 Tornados tore through the state On March 14 and 15, let seven people dead and hundreds of houses destroyed or damaged.

The statement would enable the State to gain access to a wide range of FEMA resources, including financial assistance for private individuals and for government agencies that still remove debris and restore infrastructure.

“We have no explanation yet. People still hurt,” says Royce McKee, director of emergency management for Walthall County, including Tylertown.

Mississippi’s request comes at a time of unrest for FEMA. The acting manager of the office, Cameron Hamilton, was recently expelled After he publicly disagreed with proposals to dismantle Fema, An idea that President Donald Trump came up By calling the desk ‘very bureaucratic’ and ‘very slow’.

David Richardson, the new acting manager of FEMA, committed to performing Trump’s vision in front of the desk. He also looked at an example of potential policy changes and said that there could be “more cost distribution with states” and that FEMA would coordinate federal help “When it is considered necessary.”

Walthall County was particularly hit hard by the massive storm system that destroyed destruction to several states. The storm produced two important tornadoes in the province, where four people died.

McKee said that the county has sunk an estimated $ 700,000 to clean up the damage, but it cannot afford to spend more and stopped operations until it receives federal help.

“We need federal help, and we desperately need it, and we need it now,” said Bobby McGinnis, a resident of Tylertown and fireman. “I know that President Trump said that – America first, we are going to help our American people first. But we have not seen the federal people here.”

While Mississippi has been waiting, a similar big request for disaster statement from Arkansas after the storms were refused, appealed by the Republican government Sarah Huckabee Sanders and finally approved on 13 May.