them about $100,000 to elevate that concrete slab and lift it up to the higher base foot elevation. do the math. you're talking about $200,000, over $200,000, just to get themselves back to where they were the day before these storms. i'm going to say it again, mr. speaker. this is happening in south louisiana. and while the water has receded, their lives remain upside down. hundreds of thousands of households. this is a parochial issue to me. it's my hometown. it's my community, it's my neighbors, it's my relatives. but the next disaster, whether it's next week, next year, next month, next decade, it's going to be in your town. the going to be at your home, the going to be your relatives, your neighbors. and the american people need to know that when we have a catastrophic disaster like this, that the country is there to offer a hand up. let me lay out this financial scenario. i talked about the $200,000. for this one homeowner. not including the other business owners and others that are affected by this disaster. because of h.u.d. rules and some of the rules put in place by the mortgage compa