Originally Posted by Seven:
OK. I am gonna bow out of this conversation now. All I know is that these programs are available for anyone who wants to take advantage of them. Other than that I have no idea nor any opinion on people who use them. I don't understand why all the hostility over someone getting a storm shelter but there are lots of things I don't understand so no biggy there.
Y'all have a good one.
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Seven, it's hard to explain unless you "were here". Too many, that had very little or no damage, were running all over grabbing anything that anybody was giving away, just because it was free, or lying and saying they lost things they didn't lose. Believe it or not that was very easy to do. It was chaos and no one was checking on anybody's story. I cooked on a little gas stove that is used for camping, we had three coolers of ice, finally got the ice after about three days, it was hard to find until then. Until I got those coolers we rarely opened the refrigerators. Then as they got too warm to keep food we crammed what we could into the freezer compartments. Anything we could fit in those coolers is all I saved from three refrigerators and one freezer.
We lost most everything out of them. All anyone had to do was go down and show their drivers license proving they lived in the area and they would get a food voucher. We didn't to that because money wasn't our problem. But many that had NO damage and could well afford to buy their food did do just that, and then their insurance paid them back for lost food in their refrigerators. Ours did. We had a curfew and had until sundown to get anything we needed, and get back to our homes. We had to go all over to find things. The traffic was bumper to bumper, the gas lines, if places had gas, were unreal.
There was no gas to be found for my little camping stove, so i had to be very careful when I cooked, just things I could cook fast. No batteries, no gas to venture very far from home, no ice, no electricity unless you had a generator, which we finally got, ONE day before we got power back. But had we gotten it sooner we'd have had the problem of finding gas to keep it running. Now what I was saying, why should fema buy her a storm shelter? I can understand helping her find somewhere to live, food to eat, clothing, but she didn't even need that. Fema didn't buy US or anyone around here that I know of, a storm shelter. MOST people were wonderful. People were so kind and caring, neighbors helping neighbors. That is why someone that takes advantage like this woman ****** me off. If they give her a storm shelter they darn well should give EVERYBODY one.