FEMA owned temporary housing units are returning to Louisiana for flood victims who are in the process of rebuilding their homes. Governor John Bel Edwards says these trailer units are different from what we saw after Hurricane Katrina…:
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He sys flood victims who suffered over 17-thousand dollars in damages to their homes are eligible for a trailer. And also renters who lost everything.

The tropical wave moving west over the Leeward Islands and about 100 miles north of Puerto Rico continues to lack a well-defined center, according to the National Hurricane Center. They say the system could still become a tropical cyclone during the next couple of days, but without a defined center of circulation forecasting the storm’s path is difficult. It’s still too far away to determine exactly what this system will do.

State leaders are at the Capitol today to discuss storm recovery. State Sen. Bodi White of Central says they hope to shed more light on what worked and didn’t work during this disaster. He says the more information they can push out to the public, the better…:
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He says the public will be able to make comments at next week’s meeting.

The historic floods in north Louisiana in Monroe, and the ongoing situation in South Louisiana hit five months apart, but are very different events.
Halen Doughty has more…:
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