Democratic Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Monday announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied his state's request for disaster relief after a bomb cyclone hit the state last November.

Washington officials submitted the disaster relief form in January, which requested emergency relief funds to help repair approximately $34 million in damages. 

Ferguson said that he will appeal the agency's decision, which denies funding without explanation to repair state highways, public utilities, and electrical power systems. 

“There are very clear criteria to qualify for these emergency relief funds. Washington’s application met all of them," the governor said in a statement. "This is another troubling example of the federal government withholding funding. Washington communities have been waiting for months for the resources they need to fully recover from last winter’s devastating storms, and this decision will cause further delay."

The request comes after the state was hit by a series of storms last November, which included the bomb cyclone that killed two people. A bomb cyclone is a rapid intensification of a cyclone in a short period of time.

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