The early morning storms that smacked the community on March 26 will cost the University more than $3.8 million, according to a damage report released Thursday by the Office of Facility Resources.The $3,893,535.60 price tag includes an estimated $300,000 to install a copper roof for the Chancellor’s Residence and more than $1.4 million for roof repairs to the football indoor practice facility.The damages left by the inclement weather were something Paul Favaloro, director of the Office of Facility Resources, said the University had not experienced twice in one academic year in his entire 17 years here.”It’s unusual for a storm of either [Hurricane] Gustav or this storm’s caliber to come through,” Favaloro said. “Much less in one fiscal year.”The Office of Facility Resources’ Major Damage Report deemed the Audubon Sugar Factory, the chancellor’s residence, Football Operations Center, football indoor practice facility, Life Sciences, Military Science, Jesse Coates or the New Chemical, Poultry Science, soccer field, LSU Systems and the University Student Recreation Complex tennis courts as the facilities sustaining damages. The report listed an additional $30,000 to clean damaged trees, hanging debris           removal and other general cleanup.The report included all major damage from the storm, but the estimates did not take into account all of the work orders in response to the storm. The damages will be covered by state insurance, according to Favaloro. Notes on the report indicate repairs to the roofs of Jesse Coates and the LSU Systems buildings are covered by the claim submitted after Gustav while roof repairs to Life Sciences are covered by state funding.Initial estimates indicated the University sustained $40 million in damages from Gustav.”It was less monetary damage caused by this storm than it was from Gustav,” Favaloro said. “It was not as extensive.”In the last 17 years, Hurricane Andrew in 1992, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Gustav in 2008 and the storm March 26 have been the worst to hit the campus, Favaloro said.But Favaloro said four times in 17 years is more than enough.”I hope it doesn’t happen that much more often than that,” Favaloro said.—-Contact Lindsey Meaux at [email protected]