As expected, the state's cost for Hurricane Gustav continus to rise. Commissioner of Administration Angele Davis estimates Louisiana's expenditures at $383.9 million. The state is seeking 100 percent federal cost share for all the categories of FEMA assistance. Here's how that price tag breaks down:
Evacuation transportation: $21 million
Emergency communications: $400 K
Road and bridge repair: $36 million
Traffic signal and sign repair: $5 million
Ferries and ferry landings: $5 million
Debris removal: $50 million
Firefighting: $300 K
Emergency management: $300 K
Shelters: $6.3 million
Veterans care: $800 K
Generators: $11.9 million
Public health and medical services: $17.9 million
Search and rescue: $700 K
Agriculture (fuel): $5.1 million
Public safety and security: $18.7 million
Levee protection: $1.5 million
Satellite phones: $224 K
MREs: $19.7 million
Animal carriers and supplies: $713 K
Water: $2.1 million
Ice: $5.3 million
Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC): $50.1 million
Military support: $7.5 million
Disaster food stamps: $19.4 million
Also, estimates for the cost of damage to state facilities in 35 parishes, is $100.4 million.
A preliminary price tag for Hurricane Ike is expected to be released later this week.
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Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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