Recovery Update For Oct. 16, 2002
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Release Number: 1437-53
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Baton Rouge, LA --Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness (LOEP) officials continue response and recovery efforts for those affected by Tropical Storm Isidore and Hurricane Lili.
As of noon Wednesday, Oct.16, efforts include:
- Registrations for assistance through FEMA's toll-free registration line for Tropical Storm Isidore and Hurricane Lili total 84,908 and include the following parishes:
- Acadia, 2,329
- Ascension, 441
- Assumption, 602
- Avoyelles, 308
- Beauregard, 8
- Calcasieu, 45
- Cameron, 10
- Evangeline, 966
- Iberia, 4,725
- Iberville, 264
- Jefferson, 8,538
- Jefferson Davis, 380
- Lafayette, 3,982
- Lafourche 811
- Livingston, 357
- Orleans, 34,172
- Plaquemines, 791
- St.Bernard, 1,644
- St. Charles, 1,185
- St. James, 440
- St. John The Baptist, 1,556
- St. Landry, 2,106
- St. Martin, 1,963
- St. Mary, 2,760
- St. Tammany, 2,160
- Tangipahoa, 3,185
- Terrebonne, 3,290
- Vermilion, 4,660
- The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved $2,280,000 for home and business loans.
- A total of more than $17 million for housing assistance has been approved. Housing assistance may include lodging expense reimbursement, emergency minimal repair assistance, temporary rental assistance, and mortgage and rental assistance.
- There have been 39,695 home inspections done and returned to FEMA.
- A total of $12,480,391 has been approved for Individual Family Grants (IFG) administered by the state of Louisiana.
- Total assistance from SBA, housing assistance and IFG is $31.9 million.
- As of today, nine fixed-site Disaster Recovery Centers (DRC) are open in Slidell, Houma, St. Bernard, New Iberia, Jennings, Rayne, Abbeville, Lafayette and New Orleans.
- Mobile DRCs are open today in Plattenville and Lafitte. The Lafitte DRC will remain open through tomorrow, Oct. 17. One of the mobile DRCs will move to Gramercy on Saturday, Oct. 17 and remain through Monday. Also Oct. 19 a mobile DRC will be in the Community Center on Highway 1 in Grand Isle through Oct. 21.
- Other DRCs may be opened in affected parishes. DRCs are designed to provide applicants with an opportunity to discuss their needs with personnel from state, federal and voluntary organizations who can answer questions and provide recovery information about various programs available to individuals and business owners.
Last Modified: Tuesday, 22-Apr-2003 14:00:40