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Sep 22, 2008 3:51 pm US/Central
Last Ike Evacuees In Dallas Heading Home
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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Samantha Aguilar, 6, (front left) holds the arm of Erick Castaneda, 7, as a registration armband is attached by Red Cross volunteer Michelle Tauzin (hands at far left). From back left, Francisco Castaneda, Jonathan Castaneda and Juan Carlos, holding Zimena
Pool photo by Melanie Burford/The Dallas Morning News
1400 Hurricane Ike evacuees stayed at the Dallas convention center while the storm was raging.
The last of them boarded buses back to Houston, Galveston and other Gulf Coast cities this morning.
The City of Dallas says shelter for Ike evacuees cost it $850,000. About $500,000 of that was for personnel, and another $300,000 for equipment and supplies.
All of it is money Dallas expects the federal and state governments to reimburse it for.
But city leaders may have to wait a while for the money. The reimbursement process hasn't even started for Hurricane Gustav. Dallas spent $500,000 dollars on shelter for those evacuees.
Even so, nothing beats the city's costs for Hurricane Katrina, in 2005. It cost Dallas $ 6.8 million to shelter those evacuees. But Dallas has received every penny of that money back from the federal and state governments.
The City of Arlington expects its total for Ike evacuees to be about half what Dallas spent--about $450,000.
Arlington also spent half what Dallas did on Katrina evacuees.
Fort Worth spent $13 million on Katrina and Rita. And the city is still waiting to be reimbursed for $2 million of that. Its costs for Ike have not come in yet.
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