FEMA doesn't think bayou devastation enough for federal disaster

BATON ROUGE - The federal government denied the state's appeal for federal disaster assistance in areas recovering from tornadoes that tore apart bayou communities in February.FEMA said there was not enough wide-spread damage to force a disaster area, which makes federal assistance available for individual, business and government recovery. Among the areas requested to declared a disaster area was Assumption Parish where an EF3 destroyed homes and businesses. There are only two levels of more po