BY THE NUMBERS: Twilight Tornado

Palm Coast Observer
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UPDATED at 5:04 p.m. Tuesday with video.

It’s been almost six weeks since the Twilight Tornado ripped through Palm Coast, and city officials say the numbers are still being crunched.

City staff provided another update at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

Heading into the current fiscal year, the city had about $2.2 million in its disaster reserve fund. Finance Director Chris Quinn said the various city departments are going to “play it by ear” throughout the rest of the fiscal year before determining exactly how much money will need to be restored to the city’s disaster reserves.

“If they are able to absorb those costs within the current year, that’d be the best-case scenario,” Quinn said. “Then we wouldn’t have to tap into the reserve funds.”

Costs to date due to the tornado, which damaged more than 240 homes and destroyed seven, is more than $186,000, city officials said.

“And growing to date,” Quinn added.

BY THE NUMBERS
$17,123.75 — public works labor

$34,468.75 — public works equipment

$15,180 — Palm Coast debris

$25,553.42 — Waste Pro

$89,254.75 — Flagler County Sheriff’s Office

$2,697.87— Flagler Emergency Management staff

$758.65 — Flagler Emergency Management equipment

$1,000 — Flagler County debris

$186,037.19 — TOTAL of all costs

241 — homes damaged

7 — homes destroyed

97— permits issued for repairs (including roofs, screen enclosures, garage doors, windows, fences)

*Source: city of Palm Coast