On this Thanksgiving Day, some three months after Hurricane Ida, places like Terrebonne Parish remain in recovery mode. A snapshot of the situation there from parish president Gordon Dove shows “people are still doing roofs, the recovery is coming along nicely”, but says it will be a tough Thanksgiving for a lot of folks.
He says electricity is back on to everyone who can be connected, as well as water and gas. And, a lot of people, about 2300, still aren’t able to move back into their damaged homes.
Dove says as far as those unable to get into their damaged homes on this Thanksgiving, travel trailers brought in by the state are providing some shelter for Ida victims in Terrebonne. “We’re trying to get travel trailers to them. We have about 400 of them in place which is done through the state through GOHSEP and then we have about a couple hundred in place from FEMA itself,” says Dove.
According to Dove, it seems that getting more and more people back in their homes after Ida is the number one goal. “You know we’re trying to get homes for most of these people, cause there are people in hotels spread out that’s still spread out through Louisiana, but all in all the recovery is coming along nicely,” according to Dove.
Dove says thankfully there was no loss of life from Ida in Terrebonne and that 95 percent of the homes survived with damages that can be repaired thanks to building codes adopted during the Blanco administration. Otherwise, Dove wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving.
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