You guys just can't comprehend how many individual stories there are about this. Everyone in a FEMA trailer is a different case.
Half of my employees had their houses, and all contents destroyed. No one quite understand what it's like to come home to nothing. The people that left at least had their cars. NOTHING is a word that I can't convey properly. I don't think the english language has a word that means "Not owning anything". The people who stayed, and got flooded out... they lost everything.
This was not a flood of nice blue aquarium water. It was filled with funk, filth, muck, and trash. Brown nasty gross water that left silt on everythign is touched. Imagine 12 feet of this saltwater in your home right now. Rising up... a foot or so every 5 mins. Then you survive that in the attic if you were lucky, or on the roof, or being blown across the neighborhood.... 100000001 stories about this as well.
After the water settles... you might have been able to wash your valuables off if you could find or get to them. .... Guns, Jewlry, car.... but theres not much you can do with no water, no tools, house colapsed....
My point is that due to the circumstances there was nothing you could do for your material posessions other then let them be ruined, and try to get some shelter, or food for your family. There was no going to work the next day, there was no going to walmart to buy something. these people had nothing for weeks. and when I say "these people" Im talking from the texas/louisiana border to Mobile Alabama.
Most of my employees took SBA loans, and rebuilt their houses.... One of them is caught up in limbo right now.... Heres an example of someone who is still in a FEMA trailer.
Originally lived in a Trailer....hurricane came... trailer is not there when he gets back to his property... hurricane obliterated it..... it's found wayy off in the woods.... Everything he owned except his pickup, dog, and a few guns are gone. Lives with inlaws for a few months... FINALLY gets a FEMA trailer... yay....
Gets approved for an SBA loan months after he first appplied... closing costs out the wazoo.... SBA says ok heres your first installment.... Uhh OK... what do I do with 15k? SBA says put a down payment on a new trailer... OK... thats done... no what...
long story short, this has been going on for months... He owns, and pays monthly on a trailer that the dealer wont deliver because the laws have changed since his first building permit was signed off on.... they say he has to go higher....(foundations) the contractors are backed up for a year on this sort of thing, it's going to cost 15k more than he has.....
