It has been one year since floods hit Louisiana and Governor John Bel Edwards was in Washington this week asking for more money for flood assistance. $1.6 billion dollars has been approved for Louisiana but Washington hasn’t released that money to Louisiana for distribution.
Congressman Ralph Abraham thinks the process is taking too long.
“Everybody is frustrated on both the state and federal level that the money has not yet got into anybody’s hands.”
Abraham says the issue for north Louisiana is that we have seen two floods and we haven’t seen monies from the March floods which hit the area over a year ago. He says he doesn’t blame anyone for the process taking so long; he just wants to get the aid to the people who need it.
Congressman Abraham says that thousands of residents are still displaced from the flooding and he thinks that there is still a lot of work to be done.
