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County Office of Emergency Services offers guidance on reporting flood and other damage from storm
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – As expected, last week’s storm brought heavy rains, strong winds, localized flooding and power outages, resulting in widespread damage throughout Lake County.
You may have experienced flooding in your home or business, become inundated with debris, or had your daily routine changed by damage to public infrastructure.
The Lake County Office of Emergency Services, or Lake OES, is working to compile damage information from all municipalities, businesses, and home owners.
If your property has sustained damage related to the flooding, here is a short list of what to do to report these damages:
• Take pictures of everything – before you begin to cleanup or make repairs, during clean up and repair, and after.
• Document all items that were damaged that you had to dispose of.
• Save written quotes, estimates or receipts for repairs.
• Contact your insurance company or the property owner (rentals) – contacting Lake OES or your local government is not a substitute for those contacts.
• Complete any cleanup or repairs you can. Don’t wait for “FEMA funding” to do your repairs because, at this time, we have no information that we will be given assistance.
Please report damages to your respective municipality – within the city of Clearlake, contact 707-994-8201; within the city of Lakeport, contact 707-263-5615; and within the unincorporated areas of Lake County, contact 707-263-2382.
Please include quotes/estimates/receipts for damages and any other information you would like to share along with your name, home address (location of the damaged property), and contact information.
You may also post your storm photos to the Lake OES Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lake-County-OES/307452049434603 .
At this time, Lake OES is simply collecting this information so that it may create files and report to local and state officials. There is no promise of reimbursement from FEMA or any other entity.
Lake OES said that, if by chance it is able to procure financial assistance, those who have reported damage and information to the OES office will be the first to be notified.