Murals on the livery building located on Second Street in Lebanon’s downtown district were damaged from Saturday’s hail, Downtown Director Sarah Angst says.
Photo courtesy of Sarah Angst, Downtown Lebanon Executive Director.
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JACK SILBERBERG • REPORTER@LACLEDERECORD.COM
Following recent ststorms, Laclede County Office of Emergency Management Director Randy Rowe reported ongoing storm assessment efforts and asked residents to submit any property damage resulting from the March 14 storm.
Rowe reported that last Friday, OEM managed a tour between FEMA, SEMA, Small Business Administration and OEM officials along with Nebo/Falcon Fire Chief Doug Christlieb to the site of March 14’s tornado in the Nebo, Falcon and Competition area. This tour involved on-site inspections to supplement the National Weather Service’s confirmation of a tornado touchdown in the area.
The tour visited areas where damage occurred, but Rowe stressed that this was a preliminary and not exhaustive investigation before a federal disaster declaration is approved.
Rowe said that if the tour missed a property on Friday, county residents can call OEM (417-532-6992) or the Laclede County Commission (417-532-4897) to have their properties placed on a secondary evaluation list to be assessed by FEMA following the approval of a federal disaster declaration.
“So what you’ll need to do is take pictures and keep receipts and all that for repairs and damage and cleanup and what have you,” Rowe said. “And there may be a public assessment involved and attached to this same storm.”
Public entities may be able to recover some of their spent recovery monies from the later public assessment, Rowe said, which he foresaw taking place in the next month with the caveat that the federal disaster declaration was approved.
For more on this story, see Wednesday's LCR.
