SBP Hurricane Ida Response

Now more than ever, home is an essential and lifesaving component of the human experience. After Hurricane Ida tore through Louisiana on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, your support allowed SBP to immediately deploy its Disaster Corps to provide direct relief to hard hit communities in New Orleans. Thanks to you, SBP successfully led post-Ida response efforts, including providing water, PPE and other critical supplies to hundreds of survivors, and completing over 300 immediate recovery projects. Additionally, you helped SBP begin laying the critical groundwork for its long-term recovery and post-disaster rebuilding work, which is set to return 85 families to the safety and security of their homes by the end of 2022.

SBP knows that, in the face of increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events, time and predictability matter. With your investment, 321 families have been served through SBP’s Initial response to Hurricane Ida in Southeast Louisiana to date. Through the end of the year, SBP will continue with immediate work like muck/gut and mold remediation, and will complete post-Ida home rebuilding for 7 families. Additionally, your commitment to the prompt recovery of Ida-impacted families allowed SBP’s team to strengthen communities via post-disaster webinars. To date, these webinars have reached 508 disaster-impacted individuals, speeding their recovery and supporting their future resilience. 

Your support helped people like Chester, a retired veteran. During Hurricane Ida, 78-year-old Chester pushed against his patio door in Houma, Louisiana, praying for it to stay in place against the 150 mph winds on the other side. “This was worse than the war,” he says. “When [Hurricane Ida] was over, I was just glad to be alive.” That’s a lot coming from an Air Force veteran who served several tours in Vietnam. Because his street was cut off from the main roads by a series of downed power lines and trees, neighbors were the only connections available in the first few days after Ida. Those with multiple generators washed clothes and shared food. Like hundreds of other neighborhoods and communities in southeast Louisiana, people have supported each other with what they have. Thanks to your support and commitment to speeding recovery for Ida-impacted families, SBP was able to quickly activate teams to muck and gut Chester’s home and remediate for mold. We are so grateful.