Grand Forks received approximately $165 million dollars within the first three months of their flood back in 1998. To date, Cedar Rapids has only received $40 million dollars and it's been more than 6 months since the flood waters swept through. Cedar Rapids (above) had 10 square miles of flood water and was much more substantially damaged than Grand Forks (a city half the size of CR). What little funding allocated is held up by HUD. And even the dollars allocated amounts to a grand total of $70 million. Our estimated damages could be as much as $5 billion dollars.
Senators and Congressmen (women) need to know the regulations and restrictions are preventing critical funds from getting to the people who need it.
Your help would be appreciated. Write your Congresswoman (man) and Senators. Send them a link to this post and tell these elected officials, PEOPLE NEED HELP IN CEDAR RAPIDS!!! FIX HUD!!! Find a better solution for disaster relief than FEMA Funding and Community Development Bock Grants (CDBG is not designed for disaster relief and way too restrictive).
Thanks!
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