Sheila Marie wrote:
> "StealthGoth Pan" <marcus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:1131036110.083258.237430@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>I'd like to get a roll call going, I'm quite curious as to who's left
>>in this dusty old place.
>>
>>===>StealthGoth PAN
>>Yes, Him Again
>>
>
> Oh no, not again. It hurts so much, I don't understand...
>
> I'm still here, some things have changed, others have not. Not many
would
> know the difference since I was never a "big gun" in these here parts...
>
> Sheila Marie, blew up the hole to install sky lights...
Well, I have to admit that I'm still curious as to how St Bernard Parish
-- you included -- is doing these days.
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110402131.html
<quote in-part>
FEMA Speeds Katrina Relief
Owners in Areas With Worst Damage To Receive $26,200
By Spencer S. Hsu
Wa****ngton Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 5, 2005; Page A01
Faced with the daunting task of inspecting hundreds
of thousands of damaged homes, federal officials have
decided to award the maximum relief aid possible
to people in neighborhoods presumed destroyed
by Hurricane Katrina.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun
notifying 60,000 renters and property owners
in nine Louisiana and Mississippi parishes and counties
that they will immediately receive as much as $26,200,
the most Congress has authorized for individual households
battered by Katrina. The determination of who gets
the money is being based on satellite imagery
of the worst flooding or wind damage, broken down by Zip code,
where individual inspections have not been done.
Although it may be possible that some homes in those areas
escaped serious damage and their owners do not require the aid,
FEMA has decided not to wait for case-by-case inspections.
"It is presumed these homes are uninhabitable, and
these persons will be eligible for the maximum amount
they can receive," said FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews.
"Basically if you lived here, ... if you lost
everything you owned, which is presumable,
you'll probably receive the $26,200," though
renters will receive less.
The move was not formally announced by FEMA but
will complete the agency's cash obligation
to a large number of victims of Katrina, which hit on Aug. 29.
With the onset of cold weather, officials have estimated that
as many as 600,000 families require long-term housing.
The agency's multibillion-dollar plans to tem****arily
place people aboard cruise ****ps, in hotels, mobile homes
or trailers have been criticized as wasteful and ill-conceived.
The aid would not be discounted by any money for
hotels FEMA is paying for 200,000 residents who
fled the storm. But it would be offset by
any other FEMA cash aid -- including rental assistance
for apartments -- those people may be receiving.
The affected nine-digit Zip codes are in Orleans,
Jefferson, St. Bernard, St. Charles and Plaquemines parishes
in Louisiana, and Jackson, Harrison and Hancock
counties in Mississippi.
FEMA said yesterday that its estimated cost in Louisiana alone
will be $41.4 billion, about five times what it spent
on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York.
The state's share would be $3.7 billion -- the equivalent
of about half of Louisiana's state annual general fund.
[ ... ]
</quote>
I strongly suspect that it's about time that President Bush fired Karl
Rove and got a lick of sense and raised taxes. Somebody's got to pay for
this, and we've got enough outstanding loans from the People's Republic
of China.
$26,000 ought to buy people enough of a trailer to live in while they
rebuild, as well as a chainsaw, a circular saw, a couple of hammers and
a tool-belt, and honkin' big box of nails. Supposedly 65% of
Mississippi's forest trees are lying on or near the ground and each town
ought to be able to pool some resources and buy one of those small-scale
log processing "mini sawmills" I saw on the news last night. That should
cover a source of board lumber.
Not yet announced is the bill for Hurricane Wilma.
--
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
--Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
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