Evacuee Doesn't Know Where He Will Go

WLTX ^ | 11/16/2005 | Jocelyn Maner

[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.

[LA Woman3]

[libstripper]

Why not just get a job and look for an apartment??

[gondramB]

Fema is going to pay for their apartments and they have two weeks to find one. Am I the only one who doesn't feel overwhelmed with sympathy? I'm all for giving a hand up when people are down but it's time to move on and not live in a hotel for the rest of your life.

[cyborg]

Yes it's that easy to do when you've lost EVERYTHING.

[CajunConservative]

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[gondramB]

And I do feel sympathy for anyone hwo loses their children - of course that;s terrible- I meant a lack of sympathy on having to move to an apartment.

[kstewskis]

Why doesn't he go to his family? Wife? Doesn't make sense.

[hoosierboy]

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.

So his wife is in another state and he has made no effort to reunite with her? Get off your a$$ you lazy *&#%$#!!! Sorry no sympathy from me.

[LasVegasMac]

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.

In two weeks, Larry hopes to have a plan.

Something tells me that good 'ol Larry was on the dole in NO - having kids.

"oh Lordy, someone please hep me - I can't find my 8 children - months after the storm. Someone hep me!!!!"

Loser material? YES.

Glad Larry is not in my family tree.

Any bets he talks sh!t about GWB?

LVM

[ncountylee]

Poor Larry. Any FReeper want a house mate? LOL

[libstripper]

Come on, quit making excuses. If he's lost everything he ought to be out looking for a job so he can replace some of it instead of sitting on his behind waiting for the rest of us to do for him what he should be doing for himslef.

[WasDougsLamb]

, "We were told they would cover our expenses until we found a personal residence."


Has he accomplished anything?

----Priorities
1.Find children
2.Find job
3.Find home.

[SoDak]

I've never been in this sort of position, but I just can't imagine spending days on end in a hotel waiting for something to happen. I'd have had to be out earning some dough, and trying to lay a foundation for getting back on my feet.

[riri]

Why not just get a job and look for an apartment??

Apparently, this is some outmoded concept.

[LA Woman3]

Add this one to the list....

But Larry still hasn't found his picket fence, and he says FEMA isn't doing much to help him look.

[Smittie]

Why not just get a job and look for an apartment??

I just wish all the refugees in my area would go back home and rebuild their cesspool...I mean city.

[Ellesu]

http://www.wltx.com/video/player.aspx?aid=17364&bw=

video of poor Larry

[Figment]

"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"



How many of those children are undreage dependants? Was Larry paying support for any of them before the storm? If so, I think they might have found him before now to resume child support payments. Sounds like Larry is a lifelong deadbeat looking to continue his trade.

[alnick]

Down here in the outskirts of New Orleans, minimum wage jobs are now paying $8.75, $9.00 an hour. There are help wanted signs everywhere. Wal-Mart is paying $8.75 and so is McDonald's. There are signs in front of Wendy's, BK, and McD's advertising their higher hourly wages as well as sign-on bonuses. Now, housing is hard to come by here, but anyone who can find a place to live can work, and have a number of options, and no one here has to work for min. wage, for the time being anyway.