Governor John Bel Edwards and officials from the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) are doing flyovers of areas damaged by Wednesday’s tornados in southeast Louisiana. Edwards is asking those who received property damage to register online at DamageLA.gov.
“That’s important because we need to know the full extent of the damage. I do want to also make sure that we’re managing expectations. At this point we have no reason to believe that we will meet the requirements for assistance from the federal government,” said Edwards.
Edwards said the state is going to do what it can to quantify damage for Federal assistance and if eligible the state will make an application for aid.
“If we don’t have $8.2 million in damages across the state we don’t qualify and secondly there’s a requirement that the parish actually meets the threshold as well before the parish can qualify,” said Edwards.
Edwards said they are going to compile as much information as possible and try to qualify for federal aid, if possible, but most likely the state and local governments will have to fund response efforts.
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