A majority of evacuees from both Laura and Delta, those being housed in mega shelters and hotels in Louisiana and Texas, are returning to their homes this week. Emergency Preparedness Director with DCFS Ricky Montet says they have been communicating with evacuees whose homes are now safe to return.
“And their assessments show that their home was either minor damage or just effected, or less. These are folks that their homes should be livable based on the first assessment,” says Montet.
Montet says with both power and water restored to the affected areas and stores reopening, evacuees are cleared by parish officials to return to livable housing. For those whose homes are not safe…
“If their homes came back with a major or destroyed assessment, those folks will remain in shelters until a longer-term solution is available,” says Montet.
For evacuees without transportation Montet says they made arrangements with DOTD to assist and even the Department of Agriculture to transport large animals.
“We called all those individuals that said they needed transportation assistance, that we’d have buses ready for them to bring them back,” says Montet.
Montet anticipates a few thousand evacuees will continue to be housed in hotels and shelters, awaiting a long-term solution, either direct housing or FEMA trailer.
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