The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has toured the Houston area to assess the damage from last week’s deadly storms. Local officials are reassuring residents still without power that their lights will be back on and they can soon begin rebuilding their lives.
FILE - Workers clean out shattered glass at the Wells Fargo building as clean up from the previous week’s storm continues in downtown Houston , Monday, May 20, 2024. FILE - Glass falls from above as workers clean out shattered glass at the Wells Fargo building as clean up from the previous week’s storm continues in downtown Houston , Monday, May 20, 2024. Lisa Reed, a teacher, sits outside her home in the Harris County neighborhood of Cloverleaf near Houston on Sunday, May 19, 2024.
FEMA has approved small business loans and federal disaster assistance, which can help pay for temporary housing and repairs, for both weather events. Lisa Reed, a teacher who lives in the Cloverleaf neighborhood in east Harris County, had been without power for four days before finally getting it back Monday evening.But Reed said one of her daughters and her son, who both live nearby, were still without power on Tuesday. Even with the power back on, some of Reed’s neighbors were dealing with sparking wires and other electrical problems.
In one area in the Spring Branch neighborhood in northwest Harris County, many damaged apartment complexes are “completely unlivable” with damaged roofs and debris that is not being cleaned up by landlords or owners. Briones said many of the families in these complexes are living paycheck to paycheck.
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