SOUTHEASTERN, N.C. — Federal disaster relief programs can’t completely undo the damage of Hurricane Florence; they just aren’t designed to bring homeowners back to their pre-disaster condition. “We can’t make you whole,” Darrell Habisch, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) spokesperson, said. “That’s not the function of FEMA.”  RELATED: North Carolina floodplain maps are drawn ‘looking backward.’ … Continue reading FEMA ‘can’t make you whole,’ and receiving federal recovery funding can mean going into debt