knew. they took mortgages out on top of their own home mortgages, trying to figure out how to stay afloat, surviving during covid and then now, having to figure out what to do after hurricane ian. i want you to hear from two of the owners as they try to process what s happening and what kind of help may be coming their way. right now starting to sink down that everything we worked all our life for and put everything we have into in order to have it up and running is gone. and we see no way out really. fema doesn t help any small businesses. so basically no help there. sba, they offer loans, but we already actually we start returning the eidl loan from covid, which we don t know how we ll pay back considering what s going on now. but what they re offering you is to take more loans on top of
fema assistance office and fema wasn t able to give her much help. take a listen . we have mortgages. we have a mortgage we need to return. we have no way to return it from. fema doesn t offer businesses anything and what the department of business is offering are just loans. on top of the loans we have, on top of the debt, we have no way to deal with that. we have to take more loans. i don t know how we re getting out of it. that s the situation small businesses are in right now. reporter: fema isn t offering much help to small business owners. they re told to go to the small business administration but they re offering loans on top of the loans to help small business owners stay afloat. they also had damage at their own homes, at their properties there. take a look at images of the
to describe it. it s like, we re mourning. first we were in denial, you know. now we are like it s just unbelievable what s going on. it s like right now, it s starting to sink down that everything we worked all our life for, everything is gone. and we see no way out really, you know? we see no we went to fema. we tried to see what we re hearing the news that they re providing help, you know, and millions are being raised to help survivors. but when we went there, we spent so many hours. fema doesn t help any small
begin? if you re fema and you come here, where do you begin? fema doesn t just show up, they re working with the state and governor. they ve been working, supporting the governor s requests in each of these states. for fema, it s what are the things that are going to be needed next. most of the search and rescue is being coordinated by state and local officials. fema starts thinking, okay, what do we need to be thinking about tomorrow and the next day and something is going to be coming a critical issue is going to be housing. where are people going to say? the red cross and others are opening up emergency shelters. but people won t be able to go back any time soon. their homes are destroyed. part of this will be also things like temporary housing, putting people up in hotels and motels in the area so they can get situated as they start that recovery process. right. they re going to need long-term housing. it s going to take a long time to recover. we know fema teams have begun to
we ask citizens to be prepared, to how we organize. fema doesn t only infrastructure that breaks, yet the american people points the finger at fema to get infrastructure that is privately owned. fema doesn t have control over a lot of that stuff. we have to make sure that we stop pointing the finger of blame at people. concentrate on working to stabilize the infrastructure, to stabilize the situation, help people out collectively. sandra: something that is making the storm on press intended, the speed at which it is moving. you look back at our conversation we had on friday. you were saying that this is all going to be about the forward speed before you can really determine the track. i know you have said that what has your attention right now is not 1 mile per hour at which it is moving northwest right now. look back at history, the other hurricanes that you went