The application deadline for the federal Blue Roof Program is quickly approaching for those still looking to protect their properties in 25 parishes after Hurricane Ida slammed southeast Louisiana.
“People have to sign up if they still need support through either the website at blueroof.us or the phone number 888-ROOF-BLU by this Thursday, ” said Lt. Colonel Robert Warren Green with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Green says contractors have already installed at least 10,000 blue Roofs in the parishes impacted by Ida, and have at least 40,000 more to go. Green says contractors are now fully mobilized.
“Soo over the last few days we’ve been averaging just under a thousand roofs a day and pretty soon we’ll be at our ten-thousandth roof we’ve had installed,” according to Green.
Colonel Green says the Blue Roof program doesn’t cost the affected homeowner anything to have installed.
“The big thing is that this is a free federal program, so if anybody is asking for any money to install a free roof on your house this is not part of the Blue Roof program and should not be associated with that,” said Green
Again, the deadline to apply to take part in the Blue Roof program is this Thursday, September 30th.
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