Officials from federal and state emergency management agencies are prepping to begin touring the damage left from disastrous flooding in SE Wisconsin this week.
The floods that rolled through Racine, Walworth and Kenosha counties a few weeks ago is still certainly fresh on the minds of affected families.
FEMA officials say they received the request from Gov. Scott Walker last week. Now they’re here along with other agencies to begin the process of seeing if federal money is needed to help these counties bounce back.
For resident David Fiegel recovering from the Flood damage has been a long road.
“An awful a lot of work yes,” said Fiegel.
Fiegel along with many other families in southeast Wisconsin have been affected. Water damaged carpeting, drywall, furniture and electronics and he’s without flood insurance.
“We need help that’s all there is to it,” he said.
That help may be on the way. On Monday afternoon emergency crews from the federal and state levels had a meeting prepping for all hands on deck tours of damage beginning Tuesday morning.
“We’re hoping for them to start right here and look over the situation,” said Siegel.
Six teams of FEMA and Wisconsin Emergency Management and other agencies will be looking at flood damage to public infrastructure and personal property and businesses.
“We’ll be here as long as it takes to see all the damage they want to show us,” said Cassie Ringsdorf with FEMA.
Since the floods local county officials have been doing damage assessments and the bigger agencies are to fact find everything that’s already been documented.
“Now we just need to make sure we validate it and make sure the numbers are accurate so we can see where we go from here,” said
Leaving homeowners like Fiegel Hopeful that FEMA can open up the door for extra funds.
Tours throughout each county will begin at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning. There’s no timetable for how long they’ll be doing tours.
