Hurricane Ida

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about recovery efforts in Lake Charles two years after two hurricanes swept through the city. Also, we revisit a conversation with Tulane history professor and award-winning biographer Walter Isaacson.

On today’s episode of Louisiana Considered, the WWNO/WRKF Coastal Desk reports on this year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season, and commemorates Hurricane Ida’s landfall one year ago.

Louisianans are fed up with insurance companies, speaking of their frustrations caused by slow-moving processes, struggles to contact providers and too-small insurance payouts after two years of severe storms.

Monday, Nov. 29, is the final day for south Louisiana residents who were affected by Hurricane Ida to apply for disaster relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

FEMA disaster relief applications have been extended for Hurricane Ida victims in 25 parishes after Gov. John Bel Edwards’ request was approved. The new deadline is Nov. 29.

Hurricane Ida could be Louisiana’s most expensive hurricane in the state’s history, said Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon in a Tuesday interview with WWNO/WRKF.

Louisiana insurance policyholders in 25 parishes are subject to cancellation and non-renewal of their policies starting Monday.

Louisiana, despite being well accustomed to hurricanes, has no policies in place to help public schools recover from a disaster financially.

The Louisiana Oyster Task Force hopes to revive a state-run program created after Hurricane Katrina that would help oyster harvesters rehabilitate their fishing grounds and save the state from poor harvests in the next few years.

FEMA isn’t expected to start taking applications for temporary shelters from the thousands of Hurricane Ida victims who lost homes until mid-November, so state officials are getting the ball rolling with a first-of-its-kind sheltering program.