WA governor says December flooding caused historic damage. He has a price tag
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson announced Tuesday that the state is asking the federal government to declare a major disaster for infrastructure damages incurred during December’s historic flooding.
He also provided a preliminary cost estimate for the damages: $182.3 million.
The first-term Democrat delivered the update on the state’s petition to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at a news event in the Governor’s Conference Room ahead of the Wednesday deadline for that submission.
“In terms of damage assessments that we are submitting to FEMA, this historic flooding resulted in, we believe, the largest dollar amount of public infrastructure damage in Washington state in more than four decades,” Ferguson said, “and that’s accounting for inflation.”
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