Wet, Weary and Wary : Damage: Hard-hit Leisure World in Seal Beach begins repairs and hopes the worst is over.

Federal and state officials on Monday surveyed flood damage at Leisure World, where nearly 200 homes are uninhabitable and residents are readying for another round of rain.

But barring a second record-breaking rainstorm, city officials expect no additional flooding at the 8,600-resident retirement community.

“We’re getting a lot of the places stripped out, dried out and cleaned out,” said Seal Beach Mayor George Brown, a Leisure World resident. “Unless we have 5 inches (of rain) in four hours like we did the other day, we should be OK.”

A team from the Federal Emergency Management Agency inspected flood damage at Leisure World on Monday afternoon, which Brown estimates at more than $3 million.

Officials from the federal Small Business Administration and the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services were also assessing the damage to the retirement community and downtown areas of the city.

“They’re trying to determine if there is enough damage in Orange County to go to the president and ask for federal assistance,” Brown said.

Federal aid could provide low-interest loans and grants for flood victims who had up to four feet of water in their homes during last week’s downpour.

The homeowner’s insurance provided to Leisure World residents does not cover floods, according to Seal Beach City Councilman William J. Doane, a Leisure World resident who said it was the worst flooding in the 33-year history of the retirement community.

“This is definitely the only time that the flood-control channel here overflowed,” Doane said. “If we don’t get this next rain all in one day, we should be able to handle it.”

County flood-control officials are reassuring Leisure World residents that flood-control channels should be able to handle coming storms.

But residents were not taking any chances on Monday, putting additional sandbags around their homes and the community’s medical center, where computer systems are still inoperable due to flood damage.

Brown said the retirement community has no contingency plan to deal with another rainstorm of the same magnitude.

“If the flood-control channel backs up again, we’ll have a repeat of what happened last Wednesday,” Brown said. “I think it was a freak storm, but you never know.”

The Red Cross continues to operate an emergency shelter at a Leisure World clubhouse, though most of the 300 residents who were evacuated last week are now staying with relatives, according to Brown.

The Los Alamitos Medical Center has provided hospital beds and hot meals for the elderly evacuees. And the Los Alamitos Unified School District donated the services of a school bus with wheelchair access to transport residents from the Red Cross shelter to a nearby school, where the only shower facilities were available.