El Reno, Okla., Aug. 20, 2007 – Talia Hubbard looks at her flooded home that she had to leave in the middle of the night when flood waters rose rapidly from Tropical Storm Erin. Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo
More than $120 million in federal disaster aid has been approved so far in 2007 for storm-battered Oklahoma.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), more than 4,500 Oklahoma residents affected by storms between June 10 and July 25 have applied for assistance.
There is an Oct. 5 deadline to report damage from the June 10 and July 25 storms to FEMA.
Federal assistance does not cover damages already covered by private insurance.
The $120 million includes aid for the June and July disasters, as well as that for two declarations made before that in the aftermath of severe ice storms.
In addition, on Sept. 17, the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management (OEM) and FEMA announced that 12 additional counties had been approved for individual disaster assistance and 20 counties for public disaster assistance as the result of damages from the severe storms, flooding and tornadoes occurring August 18 – September 12. With those declarations, federal assistance to the state is likely to rise.
Records show that the Small Business Administration has approved more than $11.5 million this year in loans for business owners, homeowners and ranchers in Oklahoma.
About $11.8 million has been approved for local governments in eastern Oklahoma to pay for repairs of infrastructure damage, according to the OEM.
More than $8.2 million of that amount is headed toward Ottawa County, which was especially hard-hit by flooding.
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