This does not even include the money for personal property losses, the cost of ash clean-up, or the loss of tourism in the area immediately after. A supplemental appropriation of $951 million for disaster relief was voted by Congress, of which the larges share went to the Small Business Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. There were also indirect and intangible costs of the eruption with unemployment in the immediate region of Mount St. Helens rising tenfold in the weeks immediately following the eruption. Counties in the region began funding mental health programs to assist residents who reported suffering stress and emotional problems even after coping successfully during the crisis
This does not even include the money for personal property losses, the cost of ash clean-up, or the loss of tourism in the area immediately after. A supplemental appropriation of $951 million for disaster relief was voted by Congress, of which the larges share went to the Small Business Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. There were also indirect and intangible costs of the eruption with unemployment in the immediate region of Mount St. Helens rising tenfold in the weeks immediately following the eruption. Counties in the region began funding mental health programs to assist residents who reported suffering stress and emotional problems even after coping successfully during the crisis