Posted on 11/28/2005 5:29:01 AM PST by Calpernia
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"As of December 1, if you choose to remain in the hotel, you will be responsible for paying the bill with funds you have in hand, including any funds that FEMA has already provided to you," read the notice from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the evacuees of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
"What am I supposed to do, go out in the street?" asked Sanders, 65, a former airline customer service representative, as she sat on the edge of a bed in the Comfort Suites Newark room she shares with grandsons Brandon, 3, and Shandon, 2.
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FEMA said it would extended its deadline until Dec. 15 for evacuees to find less expensive housing in hotels in New Jersey and most of the nation. For displaced victims living in 10 southern and western states, the deadline was extended until Jan. 7.
Already, the government has picked up the tab for hurricane evacuees in more than 49,820 hotel rooms around the country. The cost has been estimated at $3 million per day.
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More than 7,000 people fled the Gulf states to New Jersey and are trying to rebuild their lives after the two storms. Most are staying in apartments or with family or friends. FEMA, however, said it is still paying for 57 hotel rooms across the state. The agency could not supply the number of people in those hotel rooms.
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Which is polar opposite of the majority of the people in those hotels.
Ok, Nov. 22 with an extension to Jan. 7 is workable (to me).
“The cutoff was rather sudden”
All of you who have religously paid your child support and you mothers who actually know who fathered your kids should appreciate the irony in this story. Hey, we breed 'em you feed 'em is more than a rap slogan. Its a way of life.
But what about the adult movie charges?
Probably, but it's only right to give adequate warning.
Do you have any thoughts as to whether the refugees voted in local elections where they were housed?
How much warning would be “adequate”? I would say 30 days. It had been publicized here for at least that long, but I guess if they ignore the news it might come as a suprise.
Based on the news stories, at least a couple weeks. It started with sob stories about how FEMA wouldn't continue paying apartment rents until the evacuees died of old age. This past week, the focus was morbidly obese single mothers complaining they'd be homeless after FEMA quit paying for their hotel rooms. Looked like their efforts were spent eating rather than job hunting. I suspect that these poster children for the welfare state were living on the government dime in Section 8 housing in New Orleans. Of course, the reporters didn't delve into these issues...the point was to make FEMA and Bush appear heartless.
I heard they weren't going to pay for hotel rooms but had alternative housing they were trying to get them into. Trailers, apartments. If that is true, what is the problem?
Gotta happen sometime and the only reasonable response is to use the time you have/had to set up alternatives for yourself.
30-45 days would be fine: Thirty days for getting your rent and deposit money up. Throw in an extra two weeks for finding the right place.
But I got the impression that well into the first week of November they gave notice that funding would be cut by December 1.
Thanks. I will take this news about 'no notice' with a grain of salt then.
where might be mom and dad?
Well, the local news here is indicating they are on their own for alternative housing too. But from what I'm hearing on this thread, I am taking that with a grain of salt now too.
Until we stop paying the bill.....
It is possible they could have been victims of the storm. No info was provided. That is just my assumption.
Maid service.
I've got no problem with that. None whatsoever.
But give them a little lead-time to get on.
With their tellies going full blast all day and no bills to pay, these reprobates have never had it so good.
Look for a job?
Never!
Where are all the daddies?
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