Yorkiemom1 | 12-01-2012 08:18 AM | As I had said immediately after this event, while all the politicians were walking around, all grim faced and determined to make it look like everything is working great.....Obama's quip about that useless entity FEMA, "they work for me".....I said back then, all those poor souls that have lost almost everything they have, PLUS the ones that have NOTHING left.....your problems are just beginning! YOU WILL GET NO HELP FROM FEMA....like that man on TV said, you fill out tons and tons of paperwork...they told us they would pay for stuff the insurance companies did not pay for....WRONG!!! We STILL have poor, financially broke people with blue tarps on their roofs....not many, but there are still people fighting for life as they knew it, pre-Ike. FEMA did not wnt to repeat the same mistakes they made in La after Katrina, leaving people in FEMA trailers for 4* years, so they came in here after Ike and pulled out these trailers after 6-8 months.... It was a huge, long fight at every corner you turned...with insurance companies (I was on a first name basis with the Insurance Board in Austin, dragging MY insurance company Nationwide by the collar, in order to get them to pay what they were supposed to be paying, what I had paid for in premiums with NEVER a claim, for 35+ years)....you all are in for the fight of your lives......there are some things you can claim as losses on your income tax...but if you are ACTUALLY thinking Obama and FEMA are going to make you whole again.......you are going to be devastated with THAT outcome! Gird up your loins gang, and prepare for the fight of your lives....OH....and then after all is said and done, maybe 2-3 years from now, you will be getting your notice that your insurance company is no longer insuring homes on the water against these events!!! And the rest of the Nation is going to tell you like they told US...."YOU choose to live on the coast, by the water, YOU should pay for your own damage out of your pockets....why should the rest of the country foot the bill for higher insurance premiums, just to cover YOU"??? THAT is the empathy we all heard down here on the Gulf Coast.....I watch all these people, justifiably so, so angry about not getting any help, all the red tape, etc.....it is just starting for you...... |