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Turns out Virginia, which took on quite a bit of damage during August’s unprecedented earthquake–hurricane doubleheader, is apparently having some difficultly convincing the federal government to give it some emergency aid. (FEMA must be run by a bunch of snooty Californians or something.)

On Friday, Governor Bob McDonnell said that there was about $15 million in damage around the state which was not covered by insurance, and was unhappy that the feds were unable to provide low-interest loans, grants, unemployment assistance, disaster housing assistance and crisis counseling to his residents. “Federal assistance is critical in helping people who suffered significant losses,” said McDonnell, announcing he’d appeal the decision.

But not all is lost: the town of Mineral, epicenter of the earthquake that rattled the entire east coast, just won a free concert from country singer Alan Jackson, whose magical guitar which is able to miraculously fix roofs and console natural disaster victims will probably render moot McDonnell’s request for federal assistance.