it was devastating. watermarks over people s heads and show where water had gotten. i told them that help was on the way. since then, fema processed assistance applications for nearly 30,000 new jerseyans and approved $150 million of replacement and rental assistance and other names. between 2010 and 2020, has had 24 extreme weather events, 24. extreme weather cost taxpayers over 100 billion a year. our plan is going to build our roads higher, our levee stronger, power grids more durable all to withstand the ever-increasing ferocity and intensity of extreme weather and with my build back better plan, we are going to address the root cause of ever-increasing destruction, the climate crisis. we have a climate crisis. i have flown all over this nation this year and
we re going to create jobs laying thousands of miles of transmission lines to build an energy grid and we re going to invest in strengthening our infrastructure against the impacts of climate change and the governor and i were talking a little bit earlier, just this year we ve global warming has caused over $1 trillion. excuse me, $100 billion. $100 billion in damage. i visit the new jersey, the governor mentioned after the hurricane ida came through. the governor and several of you were with me. in manville, we met people put out of their homes by flooding and it was dech stating. water marks over people s heads and they would show me where the water had gotten to. i told them that help was on the way. since then, fema processed assistance applications for nearly 30,000 new jerseyans.
get off their lot? we re going to create thousands of miles of transmission lines to build a modern and resilient energy grid and we re going to invest in strengthening our infrastructure against the impacts of climate change. the governor and i were talking earlier, just this year we ve global warming has caused over $1 trillion excuse me, $100 billion, $100 billion in damage. i visited new jersey after hurricane ida came through. the governor and several of you were with me. in manville we met people who had been put out of their homes by flooding, it was devastating. water marks over people s heads. they would show me where the water had gotten to. i told them that help is on the way. since then, fema processed assistance applications for nearly 30,000 new jerseyans and
but look, new jersey like many places is really hurting. 23 new jerseyans lost their lives. there may be more out there. lots and lots of people are also missing. that may just be confusion from all of this. but there may be other people they are looking for. we ve seen emergency crews moving around this area and throughout new jersey looking for others who may be trapped, may be in cars like this, may be in homes, still looking. one problem that they had here is that they had both the flash floods and tornadoes at the same time. so as those tornado warnings came in, people went to their basements and in some cases may have been trapped in the basements as that water started to come in. in one place four people were killed in garden apartments when they flooded. so it was that sort of just massive storm with tornadoes. i mean, tornadoes in new jersey. unheard of. that sort of stuff that just
first of all. and therefore if there is a shelter in need or any support, that is coming to us in spades, where we re just getting so much offers for that. that will be our focus and we have that coordinated locally from a township perspective and then it becomes about these homes and the damage to them and the digging out, cleaning up and rebuilding. and, look, that is where americans, new jerseyans, quintessential shally come together and we saw it last night and we re seeing it right now. everybody supports one another, the help is there. we ll clean up and dig out and rebuild. i want to make one final comment, the governor and again i cannot thank enough the fact that the levels of support from all levels of government. i got my congressman, from a different district, by the way, congressman who crosses here and i have my district, legislative district representatives here, my good friends senate president