How to fix $150,000 in flood damages to car repair shop?
Like thousands of other south Louisiana residents, he had to deal with the malodorous muck left after torrential downpours swamped drainage systems, including rivers and streams.
An estimated 60,000 homes have been damaged, but assessments are continuing so the number may change, Mike Steele, spokesman for the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said Saturday afternoon.
For the first time since the flooding started, state offices will be open Monday in all parishes, Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne said Saturday.
Nguyen's shop got two feet of water — but it got into compressors, diagnostic computers, and other electrical and electronic machinery.
Four miles away in Sorrento, Giovanni DeCarlo needed a boat to get his mother-in-law's clothes, linens, mementos and curtains out of her house trailer.
Because of the volume of customers in the area, it could take a week or two.