Hurricane Ida Relief Remains For Horsham Residents

HORSHAM TOWNSHIP, PA —Residents are still receiving relief two years after a tornado ripped through the township.

At the recent Township Council meeting, Township Manager Bill Walker said that three property owners received $6,474 as part of the Hurricane Ida Relief Fund.

That raises the tally to $429,00 for the 149 property owners who sought assistance to recoup money that their insurance companies didn't cover from the tornado that touched down in Horsham and Upper Dublin townships in September 2021.

There's still time to seek funds for those who suffered damage to their home or business.

Walker said that $90,000 in funding remains and that the program will continue until June.

Walker has said that the average payout to residents is $3,000, but some are getting the maximum amount of $3,500.

It is financed by a $1.5 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development.

In September 2021, a tornado caused "extensive damage" in a section of the township as an EF-2 tornado touched down in Montgomery County, traveling from Fort Washington and Upper Dublin Township up to Horsham Township.

The damaged area in Horsham included neighborhoods near Carl Kohler Park and Samuel Carpenter Park, neighborhoods west of Limekin Pike between Norristown Road and Prospectville, and neighborhoods southeast of County Line Road between Keith Valley Road and Park Road.