“It looks like a bomb went off.” After Hurricane Ida, 80% of homes in Pointe-aux-Chênes, La., are uninhabitable. For many residents, the choice to stay and rebuild or relocate elsewhere depends on what kind of aid FEMA offers.
the main utility in the area, and many lacked potable water. In other nearby river parishes, only a marginal number of customers had seen power restored as of Saturday.
After Katrina, Point-aux-Chênes residents raised their houses 12 feet off the ground to protect them from flooding. Hurricanes Gustav in 2008 and Isaac in 2012 prompted some to move further up the 10-mile main road, away from the marina, where the water doesn’t get up as high. Jason Hendon, a 33-year-old computer machinist, grew up in Pointe-aux-Chênes but moved further inland to the nearby city of Houma, La., 12 years ago because he said “something like this was bound to happen eventually.” Ida blew the roofs off the homes of his parents and grandparents.
“I don’t want to hear any mention of buyouts or relocation at all,” said Ms. Verdin, standing outside the tribe’s community center wearing a T-shirt with the words “I am Pointe-au-Chien” across the chest. She was referring to a FEMA grant program that allows local governments to buy and demolish homes that have seen repeated flooding, giving residents money to relocate elsewhere. Tens of thousands of such buyouts have taken place in locations including North Carolina and Houston.
The decision to offer buyouts is made by the state, a FEMA representative said, using grant money “to reduce future disaster losses.” As of Saturday, according to the representative, FEMA has provided the 25 parishes included in the Louisiana disaster declaration $271 million in direct grants to survivors in more than 242,000 households.
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