Hurricane Ike aid to Texas reaches $1 billion - Houston Business Journal:

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The provided the funds to the stater and affected local communities through its Public Assistance Grant The federal governmentspent $1 billion evacuating operating shelters and cleaning up millions of cubic yardas of debris. Hurricane Ike hit Texas Sept. 13, 2008, causingb some Southeast Texas residents to flee to safer regions to escapethe storm. The federal aid also went toward repairinvg roadsand bridges, public buildings, and park and recreational areas. “Texanzs have worked incredibly hard to get their communitiez up and running sinc e thestorm hit,” said Brad Harris, FEMA’s federal coordinating officet for the Hurricane Ike recovery program.
Some of the biggerf ticket items paid for through FEMA fundainclude $103 million to the in Galveston to remove repair buildings and replace equipment at the medicall school, $35 million to the for restoratioh work and $10 millioj to the Trinity Bay Conservation District for debrixs removal. FEMA is the agency withihn the that is responsible for coordinatingvthe U.S. emergency responswe to natural disasters and actsof