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Written by Dave Blanks
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Monday, 23 April 2007 07:16 |
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Governor
Mike Easley has requested the U.S. Department of Agriculture to designate 56
counties across North Carolina as
disaster areas due to the freezing
temperatures the state experienced during Easter weekend. The preliminary
estimate on crop loss across the state is 111 million dollars. Among the
counties in which the governor requested to have disaster
designation:
Ashe, Avery, Burke, Mitchell, Watauga and Yadkin. Easley also sent four teams
of emergency management personnel to assess storm damage in 5 counties this
week. Caldwell and McDowell were included in that group.
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