[Yorkiemom1]

I remember sitting in a gas line for almost 2 hours....and they ran out of gas....4 hours later, the tanker arrived and dropped gasoline.....alot of the cars had left and I had managed to end up second in line to the pump....car in front filled up with just dropped gasoline, and then filled up gas cans for their generator, and it was my turn....I just needed gas for the generator.....as I was filling up my cans, that first car that had JUST filled up, had pulled out onto the street and their car had gone about 50 feet and DIED!!!! I didnt think anything about it, took my own gas cans home filled up my BRAND NEW, $2000.00 GENERAC GENERATOR, AND COME TO FIND OUT, IT WAS BAD GASOLINE WE HAD JUST GOTTEN AT THE SERVICE STATION!!!! Which is why that car had died in the middle of the street as it was leaving the station.....it ruined my generator.....thank God I had not put it into my car.....this was 12 days into no electricity, no phones....I just sat and cried, as more of my rain soaked ceiling and isulation fell down into the bedroom......FEMA was absolutely useless to me....they were supposed to cover what insurance did not pay for....I got zip, nada, zilch, zero from FEMA......Have your insurance companies told you they are not covering any damage caused by the storm surge??? We all got THAT news when they started assessing damage on the handful of homes that were not washed completely away on Boliver by the 22 foot storm surge...damage not covered by homeowners (not wind driven rain)NOR by flood insurance (not rising water).....we all empathsize with you up there....we have also lived the nightmare you are living now....it takes forever to get back to a point where you can start to get back to some kind of "normal". Gird up your loins....you have yet to encounter all those insurance adjusters.....if you believe you are getting rooked by your insurance company, here in Texas we contacted the State Board of Insurance in Austin....they really did put their noses to the grindstone and help people get what they were due to get from insurance adjusters, who were called in from all over the country, given a 2 day course in adjustments, and sent down here with a little book, "to look stuff up as they went along", and use us as "on the job training".....TIP: If the wind lifted your shingle up off the decking on your roof, the integrity of the roof and shingles has been comprimised and you are entitled to a new roof....not just tacking down the dislodged shingles....they will try to get out of replacing your roof by just repairing the peeld back shingles....NOT GOOD!!! NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!