The small community of Lafitte in Jefferson Parish is still struggling to recover from Hurricane Ida. Mayor Tim Kerner said this morning that the town’s housing stock suffered a major loss when Ida roared ashore more than a month ago.
Cut 3 (07) “…destroyed major damage.”
He says about 50 to 60 percent of the residents won’t be able to live in their homes for about a year because of the destruction. But, he’s taken steps to get 300 temporary housing units to the town as soon as possible.
In an effort to get those still without shelter in some of the hardest-hit areas of Ida, the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness is working in conjunction with FEMA to speed up the process. GOHSEP Deputy Director Casey Tingle says they hope to have trailers installed as soon as this weekend. He says FEMA is still working on their program of direct housing that includes travel trailers, mobile homes, and certain types of leases.
When waiting on a liver or kidney transplant, time is of the essence when a match is located. Right now, you have to receive that organ within four hours for it to remain viable. But LSU Mechanical Engineer Professor Ram Devireddy (Dev-ah-ready) says they are researching ways to freeze an organ so it can remain viable longer
Monday’s Facebook outage, along with the other social media platforms owned by the company, has many asking what happened and was the company hacked. Host of Tech Gumbo Haggai Davis says the company was doing a system upgrade and the Border Gate Protocol which acts like the post office sending you to a proper address in this case facebook.com and that’s when things went dark shortly before noon.
Cut 6 (10) “…six and a half hours.”