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alexpecot
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Joined: Oct 27, 2005
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Location: Atlanta, GA
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Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:32 am
Post subject: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: ARE THEY DOING ANYTHING? |
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[align=justify] I t is time for those of us who have been impacted by Hurricane Katrina to demand that our government do its job. I have been living in a hotel now for nearly two months thanks to the American Red Cross. We evacuated after the storm pursuant to mandatory evacuation. The day before Katrina hit, we were doing well. Financially, my partner and I had built up one company and were developing a second that were supporting a comfortable lifestyle. We owned a home in the fashionable, up-and-coming Warehouse District. The week of Hurricane Katrina, two days after she hit, we were about to close on our home in English Turn, a gated community on the Westbank that, despite being kind of stuffy, we had worked our asses off to put a deal together in order to get the house of our dreams. I admit we were not counted among the impoverished of New Orleans. We were approaching affluence and we had worked our asses off for it. I have lived in New Orleans for several years now and honestly, I foolishly disregarded the warnings to evacuate. I looked at it all as media hype that I was far too busy to deal with. My family founded Louisiana - and we survived without Doppler and evacuation for centuries. That storm scared the hell out of me. While our condo was unscathed, the city around us was destroyed. Words cannot describe the devastation I saw around me after Katrina had passed. Our condo was fine, but the street going to it was inaccessible - a three-story brick building collapsed and blocked it. The closing on our house never happened - a closing that was providing not only our dream home, but the funding to back a new business while boosting the sagging revenues of our current one. Months of planning - of anxious excitement in pursuit of the "American dream" - collapsed with the building across the street. Business came to a screeching halt - life as we knew it ceased - and we joined the diaspora Katrina created. And when you are self-employed, doing well but still too risky for even a bank to back you, this is scary as hell. But hey - our government is rich enough to fund a war costing twice as much as the total estimate for rebuilding the entire gulf south. FEMA promises relief and the SBA promises to back loans to save businesses built with the blood, sweat and toil of the Americans brave enough to still cling to that legendary dream. Three days after Katrina, when I finally had access to TV and the internet, I diligently began doing what we were told to do. And they haphazardly set out to screw me each step of the way. Where does it end? If you are having a similar experience, please share. Thank you, and god bless.
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