Your county is in the disaster declaration

A seven-step play for a disaster-loan packager or small-business accountant. It starts from FEMA, stacks NOAA Storm Events and Google Maps on top, and ends in a message to the business owner that is useful before anyone replies.

Deploy in Glider

Installs this workflow, five project tables and a draft campaign. Source access and any external outputs are checked before research.

Category: Public records
Sources: 3
Steps: 7

The workflow

TriggerFEMADisaster declarations by county
Evidence
NOAA Storm EventsThe storm and its damage area Google MapsBusinesses that closed after the storm
Artifact
What you hand overAn application checklist for the SBA economic injury loan, with the deadline and the records a business like theirs will need.
Contact
GliderFinds the business owner, with a verified work email and a phone
Message
Send itFrom your own mailboxes, evidence attached

Why it earns attention

After a storm, owners are cleaning up, not reading federal notices. A business that closed for days in a county that just qualified for SBA disaster loans may not know it can apply.

The play in seven steps

01
Catch the declaration
FEMA
What you pull
New disaster declarations: the incident, the counties included, the incident period and the date.
Why it matters
Inclusion in a declaration is what makes businesses in a county eligible for disaster help, including SBA economic injury loans.
Example
Severe storms and flooding · declared Oct 28 · 9 counties added
02
Pin down where the damage was
NOAA Storm Events
What you pull
Storm event reports for those counties: type, date, and the places named in the reports.
Why it matters
It tells you which towns were actually hit, so you write to the businesses most likely affected.
Example
Flash flood Oct 11 · Main St corridor · 6 inches in 3 hours
03
Find businesses that had to close
Google Maps
What you pull
Listings in the affected areas marked temporarily closed after the event, or with reviews mentioning flooding or closure.
Why it matters
Lost days of revenue are exactly what an economic injury loan is for. A closure is the strongest sign they qualify.
Example
Café on Main St · temporarily closed Oct 12 to 20 · reopened
04
Build the checklist
Your artifact
What you build
The application deadline, what the loan covers, and the records to gather first, in order, for a business their size.
Why it works
The application stalls on paperwork. A checklist that names the documents gets it started this week.
Example
Apply by next July · covers working capital · gather: 2 years of tax returns, monthly sales, a debt schedule
05
Check before you send
Confirm the county is on the declaration and which programs it covers, since some declarations include only some assistance types. Never imply the loan is guaranteed or a grant.
06
Find the business owner in Glider
Glider
Search for
OwnerGeneral managerBookkeeper
Why them
The owner decides whether to borrow. The bookkeeper will gather the records, so the checklist helps them directly.
What you get
A work email and a direct phone, with the email verified before it goes into a sequence.
07
Send the evidence, then run the first test
To: the business ownerEvery line comes from a step above
Your county was added to the October 28 disaster declaration.¹ The October 11 flood hit the Main Street corridor,² and your listing shows you closed for nine days afterward.³ Businesses there can apply for SBA economic injury loans until next July. I put together the checklist and the records to pull first.⁴ Want it?
- Facts from the data (the number is the step)
- What you built for them
- One small ask
Why it works
It connects their own closure to money they may not know exists, with a deadline. The checklist is useful whether or not they hire anyone.
First test
One declaration, forty businesses with a confirmed temporary closure.
Success looks like
Six checklists requested out of forty businesses, and two application engagements.