{"id":444256,"date":"2026-09-22T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444256\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T18:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:02:10","slug":"houston-county-board-declares-state-of-emergency-following-severe-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444256\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston County board declares state of emergency following severe storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HOUSTON COUNTY, Minn. (KTTC) \u2013 On Tuesday, the Houston County board declared a state of emergency for the county at its morning board meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The resolution cites heavy rains and flooding having created debris and roadway damage as the reason for the declaration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston County Sheriff Brian Swedberg told KTTC that most of the damage had to deal with washed-out roadways and debris stuck in culverts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Houston County declares state of emergency following recent flooding\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PHRG3IKEMZE6LHKELQNA2NHNKY.jfif.jpeg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1306\" \/>Houston County declares state of emergency following recent flooding(KTTC)WHAT THIS DECLARATION DOES<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Declaring a state of emergency like this at the county level activates a few state statutes that are designed to help streamline the arrival of assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to MN statute 12.29, the state of emergency \u201cinvokes necessary portions of the response and recovery aspects of applicable local or interjurisdictional disaster plans and may authorize aid and assistance under those plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It also opens the way for the state of Minnesota (along with federal partners) to offer financial or personnel support to aid in cleanup efforts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Find stories like this and more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kttc.com\/page\/kttc-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTTC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON COUNTY, Minn. (KTTC) \u2013 On Tuesday, the Houston County board declared a state of emergency for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-444256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}