HANNIBAL, MO. -- A day after FEMA denies Hannibal individual flood assistance, city officials still are extremely unhappy. Barry Louderman's the fourth ward councilman for Hannibal. He says while the news hit hard, he'd expected it ever since FEMA came to town about two weeks ago.
"They were pretty much told they'd get help, but you go back and look at that meeting, you would see that even Claire McCaskill had said that it wasn't a large enough event and that they might not get enough help or any at all, or it may take a long time. It ended up, they got none," said Louderman.
Now, Marion County's are left with mounds of damage, some unseen.
"All of these people are living in place that sooner or later the mold's gonna catch up to it," said Louderman.
It's a cost many residents can't handle alone.
"These are people living paycheck to paycheck, they're working people just like everybody else and they don't have thousands of dollars to shell out to fix things. All they were asking for was some help, from the Federal government, from the people they elect, from the people they trust to help them and they got nothing," said Louderman.
"The only person that's done anything is Rachel Bringer."
FEMA's asked oionsrganizat in Marion County to help in any way they can, but Louderman says it's not enough.
"The United way and churces, they don't have the money to help replace furnaces and things like that."
Louderman says many people ask him for advice on what to do next.
"I tell them the only thing they can do: register to vote. Come November, if these poeple aren't helping, vote them out."
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