But FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate gave assurances that the temporary units won’t be the old FEMA travel trailers – a reference to the ones brought in after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that were found to have toxic levels of formaldehyde. Obama received the briefing while in Martha’s Vineyard, a MA island.
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More than 15,000 people have been rescued from floodwaters in the parish since the storms began Friday and more were still ongoing Monday even as the water was draining in some areas.
Heavy rainfall forced Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards to declare a state of emergency.
The order is effective retroactively to last Friday and lasts until September 9.
People in numerous areas that remain underwater weren’t considered in a high-risk flooding area and weren’t required to carry flood insurance by mortgage lenders.
The extent of damage is coming into clearer view.
Since Friday, about two feet (60 centimeters) of rain slammed southern Louisiana for 48 hours, inundating local homes and businesses with floodwaters that have yet to recede in the vast majority of areas.
Devin George, the state registrar for vital records, said the storm-related deaths include two people in East Baton Rouge Parish, two in St. Helena Parish and two in Tangipahoa Parish as of Monday. There’s been at least 11 deaths so far because of the floods, the Weather Channel reports, and that number is unfortunately expected to rise.
The designation frees up federal money to aid with rescue operations and emergency housing, among other things. The site has links to federal, state and nonprofit agencies offering assistance for water-damaged companies. Twenty parishes were included in the federal disaster declaration. The SBA provides loans of up to $2 million to fix and replace damaged equipment, inventory and property. Deadly floods killed at least eight along with damaging homes and leaving thousands stranded. Key, an insurance adjuster, fled his home as the flood water was rising with his wife and three children and re.
Donations to assist with the flood relief efforts are being taken.
Flooded areas of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are seen from the air. “I care about my animals more than anything in this world”. Her representatives didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Flood recovery will take millions of dollars, and Taylor Swift has already chipped in million.
“My father’s owned this place for 70 years”. Water was in the yard. The Brownsfield Fire Department notified the Sheriff’s Office of a vehicle discovered Sunday afternoon in deep water.
Officials in Livingston Parish have estimated that 75 percent of the homes were a total loss.
By 6 p.m. Monday more than 31,000 people had registered from designated and undesignated parishes.
“I want everyone to understand: Nobody has been forgotten”, Edwards reassured.
Amid disastrous flooding, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued 3 people from the roof of a home in Baton Rouge on Saturday, Aug. 13.
Across the flood-stricken area, many residents said they weren’t required to have flood insurance and didn’t have it, since nothing remotely like this had ever happened before.
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Additional downpours could aggravate flooding in Louisiana into this weekend. There’s also the option to volunteer if you live close enough.
