This is somewhat a rant and I'm not looking for sympathy for me or my family and I know there are people way worse off but just helping to show a light on what happens to people after the 24/7 news coverage stops.
So as some of you know my Sister and her family's house was devastated in Hurricane Irma. She was already being hit by floods from rains beforehand. She lost some of her animals. All of her furniture, appliances, TVs and her clothes, flood and raw sewage. It's an older house and the raw sewage and water damage is in the foundation and walls. The adjuster couldn't even stay in the house for more than 10 minutes at a time doing his report. She lives in the Naples area. First FEMA offered her a hotel room, in Tallahassee. Thankfully a friend offered her one of her empty rentals. That lasted about two weeks when she started trying to get her to move out.
The city has been trying for years to buy her and her neighbors out because of the location and wanting to expand the area. Insurance nor FEMA has got back to them yet and probably won't for awhile, people here in Jax are still waiting on payments from last year. Anyways the city finally made them a buyout offer of 30k this week for their property. That's not even near enough to pay off their mortgage.
People say "why don't you just move" after this stuff and this is a big part of the reason why. This is the same shit that happened with Katrina and others and will continue to happen. They get trapped in between insurance/FEMA not paying out and the city swooping in like vultures when people are at their most vulnerable. It's really infuriating and she feels helpless and I'm at a loss of words to help her.
So as some of you know my Sister and her family's house was devastated in Hurricane Irma. She was already being hit by floods from rains beforehand. She lost some of her animals. All of her furniture, appliances, TVs and her clothes, flood and raw sewage. It's an older house and the raw sewage and water damage is in the foundation and walls. The adjuster couldn't even stay in the house for more than 10 minutes at a time doing his report. She lives in the Naples area. First FEMA offered her a hotel room, in Tallahassee. Thankfully a friend offered her one of her empty rentals. That lasted about two weeks when she started trying to get her to move out.
The city has been trying for years to buy her and her neighbors out because of the location and wanting to expand the area. Insurance nor FEMA has got back to them yet and probably won't for awhile, people here in Jax are still waiting on payments from last year. Anyways the city finally made them a buyout offer of 30k this week for their property. That's not even near enough to pay off their mortgage.
People say "why don't you just move" after this stuff and this is a big part of the reason why. This is the same shit that happened with Katrina and others and will continue to happen. They get trapped in between insurance/FEMA not paying out and the city swooping in like vultures when people are at their most vulnerable. It's really infuriating and she feels helpless and I'm at a loss of words to help her.
