In Arkansas, the storm killed 13 people in six counties, the state Emergency Management Agency said.
The state Emergency Operations Center in Albany was activated at noon Friday to monitor storm response.
It includes embedding FEMA officials in state emergency centers so that that communication is immediate.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Thursday morning and activated the State Emergency Operations Center.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said state emergency officials were monitoring the quake, felt in parts of the state.
McCHESNEY: Driver said the call was from the state emergency center in Austin.
While the state Emergency Management Agency had not received reports of casualties, the fire prompted the evacuation of about 150 people.
In Mississippi, 4, 937 people have been displaced by flooding so far, said Jeff Rent, a spokesman for the state Emergency Management Agency.
At the state's request, a FEMA liaison officer was on site at the Florida state emergency operations center, according to the White House.
The state emergency management agency said seven counties have reported damage.
"We're preparing for what we call level three flood operations, which is the major flood event, " a regional State Emergency Service operations controller, Darren Winkler, told ABC.
Oil has hit barrier islands off Mississippi and Alabama, and was only six miles off the Florida Panhandle on Thursday morning, state emergency management officials have reported.
The damage in Arkansas included some 15 homes damaged in Izard County, said state emergency management official Tommy Jackson, and overturned vehicles spotted along U.S. 65, north of Clinton.
It is also not hard to imagine what the reaction of the West would have been to the creation of a new "State Emergency Committee" with a human face.
Currently, over 2, 300 FEMA personnel are deployed to affected states up and down the East Coast, and that includes 14 Incident Management Assistant Teams, as well as FEMA liaisons embedded in state emergency operation centers.
To give you some idea of how fast this occurred, the rivers and the flooding were so intense that the Vermont Emergency Operations Center, their state emergency operations center, had to evacuate last night and relocate.
"If we get the amount of snow that is forecast, the recovery will be slow and people should prepare for that, " Mr. Patrick said at a televised briefing midday Friday from a state emergency bunker in Framingham, a Boston suburb.
I'm the safety manager for a company of over 400 staff and we were informed by the state emergency services that the surrounding areas were expected to flood once the Wivenhoe Dam released excess water around 0200 local time (1600 GMT).
Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency, state police extended shifts and National Guard called up 100 troops for snow duty as inches of wet, heavy snow fell across parts of the state -- knocking out power to nearly 180, 000 people.
President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency for the state, allowing federal aid to be used in recovery.
Mr Thein Sein declared a state of emergency in Rakhine state on June 10th, thus putting the army back in control there.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee declared a state of emergency, and nonessential state workers were sent home Friday afternoon.
Irene is forecasted to hit the New York Metropolitan area early Sunday, forcing Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg to declare a state of emergency for the city and state of New York.
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Activists have criticised the state of emergency, saying it hands control of Rakhine state to the military.
Malloy declared a state of emergency and deployed National Guard troops around the state Friday for rescues or other emergencies.
In an acknowledgement of the seriousness of the situation, Thein Sein declared a state of emergency in Meikhtila in an announcement broadcast on state television.
The state of emergency allows local governments to call on aid from the state.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency for Santa Barbara County, giving local firefighters additional state resources.
In Minnesota, Governor Mark Dayton declared a state of emergency after communities in the south-west of the state - already struggling to restore power from an earlier ice storm - were buried under heavy snow.
He also declared a state of emergency for hard-hit Chemung County in the southwestern part of the state.
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