How Many In Wyandot County Were Prepared For The Flood?
Release Date: September 28, 2007 Release Number: 1720-058 ยป More Information on Ohio Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes As the flood waters rose in Wyandot County only 26 of the 550 victims-to-be were properly prepared, according to what applicants told state and federal disaster assistance officials. “From our records as of Oct. 26 – one month after the disaster declaration – only 4.7 percent of the households in Wyandot County said they had flood insurance when they called us,” said Federal Coordinating Officer Jesse Munoz of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In all eight counties declared for disaster assistance, only 522, or 6.6 percent, of the 7,869 renters, homeowners and businesses who registered said they had flood insurance. “In this area of the state it is not a matter of if it will flood, it is a matter of when it will happen again,” said State Coordinating Officer Nancy Dragani, executive director of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency. “That is why we strongly
