The city of Norfolk has prepared a storm damage assessment and have handed it over to the Virginia Department of Emergency Management and FEMA.
They will take these numbers and determine if this area gets federal assistance.
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management and FEMA are walking through Oceanview and looking at the damage left by last week's nor'easter. They are taking notes on how some homeowners are still pumping water out of basements.
When state and local officials met Samantha Hart she could not hold her tears back.
"I am coming up out of a homeless situation of six years, me and my kids," she said.
Samantha, a single mother who bounced back after being homeless for six years, finally got her own apartment and brand new furniture. Last week's storm wiped it all away.
"I am staying from a neighbor's house that I really don't know, to a friend's, I'm confused about where me and my children go from here," said Samantha.
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management and FEMA walked through Oceanview and the Willoughby areas, some of the hardest hit areas. Six hundred seventy-seven private property buildings suffered 25 million dollars worth of damage. Eight were destroyed, 39 have major damage, 290 with minor damage, and 353 were affected but liveable.
Federal inspectors are even talking with flooded out renters and homeowners.
"Get all of that information back to the governor and then he has to make a decision on whether the criteria is met for him to make a request. Then go to regional offices of FEMA in Philadephia, and then go up to the President," said Mike Wade, FEMA spokesperson.
"They ask me what I lost, was I able to gain anything and keep anything. No, I haven't," Samantha said.
For people like Samantha, FEMA is her only hope in getting back on her feet.
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management and FEMA are walking through Oceanview and looking at the damage left by last week's nor'easter. They are taking notes on how some homeowners are still pumping water out of basements.
When state and local officials met Samantha Hart she could not hold her tears back.
"I am coming up out of a homeless situation of six years, me and my kids," she said.
Samantha, a single mother who bounced back after being homeless for six years, finally got her own apartment and brand new furniture. Last week's storm wiped it all away.
"I am staying from a neighbor's house that I really don't know, to a friend's, I'm confused about where me and my children go from here," said Samantha.
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management and FEMA walked through Oceanview and the Willoughby areas, some of the hardest hit areas. Six hundred seventy-seven private property buildings suffered 25 million dollars worth of damage. Eight were destroyed, 39 have major damage, 290 with minor damage, and 353 were affected but liveable.
Federal inspectors are even talking with flooded out renters and homeowners.
"Get all of that information back to the governor and then he has to make a decision on whether the criteria is met for him to make a request. Then go to regional offices of FEMA in Philadephia, and then go up to the President," said Mike Wade, FEMA spokesperson.
"They ask me what I lost, was I able to gain anything and keep anything. No, I haven't," Samantha said.
For people like Samantha, FEMA is her only hope in getting back on her feet.
