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How Long Will It Take to Rebuild the Sandy-Impacted Areas? Who will Remain?
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Following Hurricane Ike, many towns in Southeastern Texas were destroyed or significantly damaged, in ways similar to Sandy-impacted areas in New Jersey. Inhabitants that had been in these beach communities for generations no longer could afford to rebuild under the economic burdens of new federal and state guidelines. The homes that were rebuilt cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the homes that were there before.
Five years later, towns are beginning to re-emerge in Southeastern Texas, but with different demographics and new cultures. The attached story and video hint at what is emerging in Southeastern Texas, but say nothing about who was displaced, where they are, and how they are doing today.
This story raises questions about how long it will take for the Sandy-impacted areas along the New Jersey coastline to recover. Who will remain and who will move into the recovered communities? If it takes five to ten years for the Sandy-impacted communities to reach a new normal state with structures able to withstand future storms, what must be done in the interim to maintain the health and human security of the New Jersey coastal community inhabitants during this difficult and long transition? What are the provisions to improve health, human security, resilience, and sustainability for those that must relocate? Where will they go? Will they lose entirely the benefits of community in their transition into a new location?
How are the federal, state, and local authorities helping the impacted individuals and families? If the various authorities were given a scorecard for their work to date on their response, relief, and recovery efforts, how would the people and communities most impacted rate their assistance?
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12newsnow.com - by Vanessa Holmes - May 14, 2013
September 13, 2008 is an unpleasant memory for homeowners along the Gulf Coast. In the overnight hours, Hurricane Ike, knocked on Bolivar Peninsula's door at 110 miles per hour.
This potent, un welcomed guest knocked multi-story beach cabins down to ground zero.
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Re: How Long to Rebuild? - Who Will Remain?
It is important to note that Texas has implemented a plan to evacuate any residents needing and wanting to do so, who do not have the means to evacuate themselves (Call 2-1-1).
http://emergency.portal.texas.gov/en/Pages/Evacuating-to-Safety.aspx
Residents who had the physical strength, energy, and desire to return did so. The elderly, infirmed, or people who decided they could not bear the stresses of recovery did not return.
It is also important to note that in some areas the evacuation for Hurricane Ike came just two weeks after another Hurricane evacuation for Hurricane Gustav. Many people who evacuated for Gustav had grown weary of the evacuation process, or had used up all their evacuation resources and chose not to evacuate for Ike (which ended up being a bad decision for most).
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The following information is from an article written one year post-Ike:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/us/21galveston.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
About 20 percent of the 58,000 people who lived in the city [Galveston] before the hurricane have not returned, and one-quarter of the families whose homes were damaged by floods — about 4,000 households — are still unable to live in them.
Thousands of people are still staying with relatives or living in campers and government-provided trailers next to their ruined homes. About 3,000 are staying on the mainland in temporary apartments subsidized by the government. Many of these families are still waiting for more than $160 million in federal housing grants that have been approved but have yet to be disbursed because of bureaucratic delays in Austin, officials said.
“We have a lot of people who didn’t have insurance or who had some but not enough,” said Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas. “It’s just not fair. People are waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting.”
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In Orange County, Texas the rough draft of the new FEMA flood maps was not available until almost four years post-Ike . . .
Rough draft of new FEMA flood maps stirs up Orange Co. officials, residents
http://theexaminer.com/stories/news/rough-draft-new-fema-flood-maps-stirs-orange-co-officials-residents
The answers to many additional questions may be found in the links below:
Hurricane Ike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike
Effects of Hurricane Ike in Texas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Ike_in_Texas
Gilchrist, Texas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilchrist,_Texas
Lifts – for beach homes
http://www.beachhouselifts.com/
http://www.legacylifts.com/