FEMA: LI homeowners so far have gotten $352M in Sandy aid
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Large piles of debris still sit on the front lawns of some of the homes in Ocean Beach before a major FEMA/Army Corps of Engineers debris clean-up of Fire Island. (Jan. 18, 2013)
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Long Island homeowners so far have received less than half the federal aid needed to cover their nearly $800 million in uninsured losses from superstorm Sandy.
About 47,500 households in Nassau and Suffolk have received grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, providing $352 million to offset the $796 million in damages not covered by flood insurance.
To make up the difference,...
