Posted on 11/16/2005 5:23:43 PM PST by LA Woman3
(West Columbia)-Larry Young read, "The last night FEMA will pay for hotel costs is November 30."
It's the letter Larry received Tuesday night. The lines were still unbelievable to him Wednesday morning.
Young said, "We were told they would cover our expenses until we found a personal residence."
But Larry still hasn't found his picket fence, and he says FEMA isn't doing much to help him look.
Young said, "I don't know where I'm going from here. I don't know what I'll do from here."
Larry has called Columbia home for a month and a half. He's located his wife, sister and brother in other states. He still he has yet to find his eight children.
"It hurts but I know they're safe," said Young.
So each day he fishes through an ocean of papers, trying to get the assistance he needs, but he can't get a bite.
Young said, "I need some help from whoever can help me."
In two weeks, Larry hopes to have a plan. He said, "If I can survive that hurricane, I can survive anything."
He just hopes he won't have to survive the streets.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has granted exceptions to evacuees in hotels in Louisiana and Mississippi, where there's a shortage of housing.
Evacuees in those states have until January seventh to find homes. FEMA estimates that 53,000 families remain in hotels, mostly in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi.
The South Carolina Evacuee Assistance Center is open to help people in need. Call 1-800-590-6395.
That's also the number to call if you have housing you want to donate.
A lot of folks want to go home and help with the rebuilding.
I know that, at least not the ones I've known. We had friends in Metarie, and enoyed the visiting & hospitality. The Ford agency didn't even try to screw the out of towner on the service visit, either.
I suspect Larry was even too lazy to hustle tourists.
Hurricane evacuees worry aid will run outShe's living in what to her is luxury, she has a housekeeper, free food and she doesn't have to even cook it, swimming pool, airconditioning, CableTV, live in boyfriend, and she even says that she doesn't have any worries except "how long it will last". No mention of she or the boy friend looking for work in the many stores and fastfood places along that road within walking distance who are hiring.By CRAIG SCHNEIDER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/23/05
Every few weeks, Ralonda Cain fears that she and her year-old daughter, having made it through the hurricane that swamped their New Orleans home, will be homeless.
Cain is among the thousands of storm evacuees living in hotel rooms in Georgia, with the federal government paying the bill. Every two weeks or so, the evacuees have received an extension of their stay. But the more time that passes, the more they worry that they'll be told the program is over — that they have to leave.
Hurricane evacuees Ralonda Cain, daughter Ayanna and boyfriend Stephen Davis have lived in an Atlanta motel room for almost two months.
"I'd have no place to go," said Cain, 26, who is staying at the Comfort Inn on Fulton Industrial Boulevard in Atlanta, along with about 300 other evacuees. "We have a place to stay. We have food. The only worry is how long it will last." (read the rest)
A real issue could be he's illiterate. Orleans parish is the worst school district in the state. That is a big problem.
I don't know what his circumstances are, but the trailers are just now showing up and unless you have private property there have been no locations for trailer cities as far as I know. There are jobs in New Orleans but no housing, it is a very difficult situation. Even if apartments start becoming available after renovations, I would imagine that they will be very expensive, I'm not trying to make excuses but it is very difficult. I have my own huge difficulties I am trying to deal with right now due to Katrina.
A lot of good-for-nothings are enabled by sluts on the dole. Turn your stomach if you let it...
Yes, isn't that pathetic? Everyone knows that it's up to government agents to go out looking for apartments and jobs.
This man's search seems to be entirely devoted to finding someone that is willing to do something for him instead of doing it for himself. To quote C.S. Lewis in "A Horse and His Boy":
"One of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself."
His depencency upon the government has forced him to do NOTHING for so long that he is now capable of nothing.
He still has his life and his health. When I was 18 I left home with basically the clothes on my back and nothing more.
You're right. I just don't want to be hasty in judgment having never been in the situation.
Yes, he can and he will. But if you notice, the 'Rats make sure that those living in public housing don't have to go further than the end of the street to vote because if they had to put out an effort, they wouldn't bother.
This is one of the reasons I would like a law passed that forces the couties to completely destroy all voter's registration every four years (about a year and a half before the presidential elections). To re-register you must show up IN PERSON and WITH ID and somehting that proves your citizenship. If you can't do that once every four years, you don't deserve to vote.
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