natural disaster

“There is a dry ice shortage, so we're fighting through that as well,” Broome County Executive Jason Garnar said. “We're doing everything we can to get extra dry ice.”

While the county can use FEMA public assistance to repair schools and other publicly-funded institutions, its residential neighbors are not eligible.

Stacy Mulford grabbed two bins of supplies the Lodi Fire Department was distributing for people affected by the flood. She wasn't home when the flood hit Tuesday, but her daughter was until folks came by banging on the door. "Get out! Get out, now!"