WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:10.3900000" NOTE recognizability:0.931 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.136 One of the more important parts of the NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:02.136 --> 00:00:04.455 impacts that we saw from Ida in Jefferson NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:04.455 --> 00:00:06.369 Parish was really everyone outside of NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:06.369 --> 00:00:08.129 the hurricane risk reduction system. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:08.130 --> 00:00:10.216 So I joined now by Parish President NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:10.216 --> 00:00:12.465 Cynthia Lee Shang and we are in Jean NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:12.465 --> 00:00:14.710 Lafitte almost about as far north as you NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:14.710 --> 00:00:16.796 would get before you have the protection NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:18.540 of the hurricane risk reduction system. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:18.540 --> 00:00:20.268 So obviously what we see now, NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:20.270 --> 00:00:22.286 we would like to be farther along, NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:22.290 --> 00:00:23.414 but realistically speaking and NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:23.414 --> 00:00:25.100 this is about where you expected NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:25.154 --> 00:00:26.629 the recovering the parish debate. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:26.630 --> 00:00:27.940 Yeah, in Jefferson Parish you NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:27.940 --> 00:00:29.656 know if you were within the NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:29.656 --> 00:00:31.080 hurricane risk reduction system. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:31.080 --> 00:00:32.688 Largely, you were trying to get NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:32.688 --> 00:00:34.049 your electricity back trying to NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:34.049 --> 00:00:35.465 get your cable your Internet back. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:35.470 --> 00:00:37.094 Although we did have a lot of NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:37.094 --> 00:00:38.403 people who lost everything because NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:38.403 --> 00:00:40.363 of the roof caved in or there, NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:40.370 --> 00:00:42.106 there was a hole in the roof NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:42.106 --> 00:00:43.724 here in Grand Isle, la feed, NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:43.724 --> 00:00:44.238 lower Lafitte, NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:44.238 --> 00:00:45.523 Barataria crown point completely different. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:45.530 --> 00:00:46.562 Story for these folks. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:46.562 --> 00:00:48.110 This is people who lost everything. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:48.110 --> 00:00:50.513 What I say is, in Grand Isle it its NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:50.513 --> 00:00:51.977 destruction just as bad as this. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:51.980 --> 00:00:52.751 It looks different. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:52.751 --> 00:00:54.293 This is a lot of mud. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:54.300 --> 00:00:55.555 This was houses that took NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:55.555 --> 00:00:57.400 on a lot of water in grand. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:57.400 --> 00:00:58.780 All you just have maybe the NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:00:58.780 --> 00:01:00.053 top of the structures just NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:01:00.053 --> 00:01:01.578 completely gone so very different. NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:01:01.580 --> 00:01:03.516 Story for the folks down here in a NOTE Confidence: 0.91637254 00:01:03.516 --> 00:01:05.417 much longer road to recovery for these NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:05.420 --> 00:01:06.608 people, and so the needs really NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:06.608 --> 00:01:08.138 as you go from Grand Island NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:08.138 --> 00:01:09.518 northward are completely different. NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:11.032 Are the folks from Crown Point NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:11.032 --> 00:01:12.330 South getting what they need? NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:12.330 --> 00:01:14.115 Well, it's not as fast as we NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:15.400 would want it to be. NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:16.926 When you have to look at people NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:16.926 --> 00:01:18.479 who are really taking everything, NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:19.760 they lost all their possessions. NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:20.796 They lost their home. NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:20.796 --> 00:01:22.350 We really want the trailers for NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:22.408 --> 00:01:24.372 the folks you know, this is a FEMA. NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:24.372 --> 00:01:25.662 FEMA will be managing this NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:25.662 --> 00:01:26.990 program along with the state NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:26.990 --> 00:01:28.720 along with us trying to help it, NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:30.148 but that's what they need is NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:30.148 --> 00:01:31.660 to be on their property. NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:31.660 --> 00:01:32.636 Again, rebuilding their lives, NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:32.636 --> 00:01:33.368 reclaiming their lives, NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:33.370 --> 00:01:36.050 and they need to be close to home to do that, NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:36.050 --> 00:01:37.292 and I think that's what the NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:37.292 --> 00:01:38.750 real need is for those people NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:38.750 --> 00:01:40.195 who lost everything they want. NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:41.664 The trailers and and to be NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:41.664 --> 00:01:42.640 back on their property. NOTE Confidence: 0.9442244 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:42.880 And NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:43.872 you're saying that need? NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:43.872 --> 00:01:45.360 Are you getting the help from NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:45.407 --> 00:01:47.045 the state and from FEMA to to NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:47.045 --> 00:01:48.010 accomplish that? There's a NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:48.010 --> 00:01:49.230 lot of discussions going on. NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:49.230 --> 00:01:50.450 Obviously. It's a huge project, NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:50.450 --> 00:01:52.158 but it's not going as quick as NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:52.158 --> 00:01:53.586 anybody would like, because when you NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:53.586 --> 00:01:55.515 don't have a house and you and you NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:55.515 --> 00:01:57.039 just you just want that trailer, NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:57.040 --> 00:01:58.888 you want to be back on your property NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:01:58.888 --> 00:02:00.701 so things are moving. But of course, NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:02:00.701 --> 00:02:02.900 for those of us here on the ground. NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:02:02.900 --> 00:02:04.244 It's always too slow because you NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:02:04.244 --> 00:02:06.019 know the need is just so immediate. NOTE Confidence: 0.9486165 00:02:06.020 --> 00:02:06.500 Thank you NOTE Confidence: 0.92733306 00:02:06.500 --> 00:02:08.236 so much for joining us and good luck NOTE Confidence: 0.92733306 00:02:08.236 --> 00:02:10.386 for a long road ahead for these folks.