By Larry Agee | Co-Founder & Executive Director
DAUSA arrived the day after the storm and stayed through the end of the year, and recently went back in late Jan to check on certain neighborhoods and help the local Rotary district hand out 7000 sheets of drywall for free.
Our team leads trained local volunteers and Rotarians on proper Muck and Gut procedures and then trained some to be team leads. This allowed for 2 to 8 teams to be working in the field. Our chainsaw and backhoe teams worked the first 20 days doing at least 2 jobs a day.
DAUSA and the trained local teams leads thru Rotary, muck and gutted or help demo and moved valuables on over 300 homes. At an average retail cost of $10,000 if a contractor had been hired, we saved the survivors over 3 million dollars. The vast majority of the people we helped had no flood insurance. Most of the chainsaw and backhoe work would not have been covered even if the survivors had homeowners insurance.
The Rotary District 6960 signed an official MOU with DAUSA to keep response trailers and trained people ion the area and on call as a partnership for their community.
Hurricane IAN ws a huge response by DAUSA and we still have projects, including rebuild projects and grants to Churches, Rotary clubs, and community center with verified needs.
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