A Look at 2008 FEMA Numbers...

FEMA released its 2008 End-of-Year Highlights. Here are the numbers ...

US Disasters:

• 75 Major Disaster Declarations
• 16 Emergency Declarations

Individual Assistance:
-$913 million to assist applicants for damaged or destroyed property
-$216 million to assist individuals with other needs, including disaster unemployment and crisis counseling
-1.5 million applications

Major Operations:
- Midwest Floods - 3 million liters of water & 190,000 MREs
- Hurricane Gustav - 11 million liters of water & 13 million emergency meals
- Hurricane Ike - 28 million liters of water & 28 million emergency meals, 32 million people provided with life-saving commodities

(from http://www.fema.gov/)