As many as 6,000 of flood victims are still staying in shelters and many more are taking refuge with family and friends. FEMA, the Governor and other agencies are working to develop a plan to house people currently and in the distant future. FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate says they don’t know if they will bring in trailers but if it comes to that, these aren’t the same travel trailers we saw after Katrina.
Cut 11 (07) “approved”

The Department of Children and Family Services is telling flood victims to pre-register for disaster food stamps. DCFS Deputy Assistant Secretary Sammy Guillory says DSNAP benefits will be available once the state gets approval from the federal government. He says they hope to have registration sites open next week but DCFS has a lot going on right now…
CUT 5 (07) “been flooded”

You can apply online on the D-C-F-S website or call 1-888-LA-HELP-U.

Celtic Media Studios in Baton Rouge opened their doors to flood victims as a shelter on Sunday morning. Director of Studio Operations Patrick Mulhearn says Saturday night the population of Celtic was zero and Sunday afternoon the population was about 4-thousand people. He says when buses of people started coming in, there were no volunteers so he turned to Facebook to find help…
CUT 7 (09) “everything else”

Many think the flood is over but Lake Arthur in Jefferson Davis Parish is still expected to get more flooding this week. Johnathan Brazzell with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles says this will lead to more homes flooding and road closures. He says the flooding concerns are far from over in some southwestern parishes..
cut 15 (09) “two weeks”