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Disaster Assistance Available for July Flood Survivors in Texas

Published: 9 July 2025
Categories: FEMA News

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AUSTIN, Texas – Disaster assistance is now available to eligible survivors in Kerr County affected by the severe storms, straight-line winds and flooding that began July 2, 2025.

Under Individual Assistance, FEMA and the State may be able to provide several types of financial and direct assistance to individuals and families. Assistance may include funding for residents and non-residents in Kerr County who sustained damage. For example, non-residents may include out-of-state survivors who may have been visiting or staying in Kerr County at the time of the disaster. 

Survivors may be eligible for:

Other Needs Assistance (ONA)Medical/Dental: Money to help cover expenses related to disaster-caused injuries or illnesses. This funding can also be used to help replace medical/dental equipment, breastfeeding equipment or prescribed medicine damaged or lost due to disaster. (Also available to non-residents)Transportation: Money to repair or replace a vehicle damaged by the disaster when you don’t have another vehicle to use. (Also available to non-residents)Funeral Expenses: Money for eligible disaster-caused funeral expenses such as cost of transfer of remains, casket or urn, funeral services, death certificates, burial plot, cremation, interment, cost of reinterment if disinterment is caused by the disaster, and/or occurs in a family cemetery on private property. (Also available to non-residents)Displacement: Money for housing needs if you cannot return to your home because of the disaster.Serious Needs Assistance: Money for essential items

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NSF Graduate Research Fellow contribution to flight could aid disaster relief

Published: 9 July 2025
Categories: National Science Foundation

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With the devastating hurricanes that swept the southeastern United States at the end of 2024, new and better ways to get critical supplies to disaster zones and rural areas are essential. U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow Garrett Asper is devoting his research during his fellowship to advancing flight control systems for electric or hybrid vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs), which can move people and cargo “more quickly, quietly and cost-effectively than traditional helicopters or ground transportation” according to this article from Virginia Tech.

EVTOLs, which combine the vertical takeoff of helicopters with the ability to transition to horizontal flight like airplanes, are being called “the future of flight.” However, the controls during transitioning from horizontal to vertical flight still need improvement before they can be deployed during disasters. Asper’s research focuses on developing and flight-testing new control algorithms to ensure the safety, speed and efficacy of eVTOL transport. He aims to make the tools he’s creating open source, allowing other researchers to use them to test their work. By doing so, he hopes to advance the entire field and bring us closer to the day when critical supplies and aid can be quickly airlifted to disaster zones.

An aerospace engineering doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech, Asper is a researcher in the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory and the NSF-funded Uncrewed Systems Laboratory. He

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