The Ballincollig native estimated that between 60 per cent and 70 per cent of houses in the area have been destroyed

Originally from Irishtown and Ballyboden in Dublin, Declan came on a football scholarship to Alabama in 1986 and left with a degree in accountancy

Bladhana Richardson told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show that they had moved the 70 people from the coastal area to central Florida and they were in constant contact.