FEMA Offers Katrina Survivors Federal Trailers for $1

After they were done tearing them trailers up they probably aren't worth a dollar.

 

But what will the lot rent be and who will pay that ?

 

about time noone wants to live in the trailers anyway.All the govt. will do is crush em anyway.Might as well give em to the people.Duh they are living in them now and intend to stay in them. Govt needs to remove their heads from the lower opening and stop wasting money.let em have em.we don't want em

 

I'm sorry but most of you need to get your heads out your rear end.

Sure, what they show on tv in New Orleans are a bunch of lazy, ungratefull..
SOB's that won't help themselves but they are not the whole picture.

I live in South Louisiana and although my home was not damaged further
south just about everything was. ENTIRE neighborhoods are GONE all that
is left are electic poles and concrete slabs. Sure most people have rebuilt
and by now they have had plenty time to do so but there are still entire
communities that are GONE. Lots of people DID rebulid after Katrina but then
along comes Rita and tears up what you just rebuilt.

To Rick G who asked who is going to pay the lot rent. They are on no ones
lot. Those little campers are parked next to concrete slabs on which their
homes USED to be. COSTING NO ONE!!!!!!!!!

And to all the people who say "yeah but you choose to live where you live
and no one makes you stay there". Why do people live where there are
tornados, ice storms, blizzards, volcanoes, etc? Can you tell me why?
Most people live where they were raised and yeah we may have hurricanes
but everyone else deals with the challenges of THEIR region.

 

And one more thing, why not sell them to the residents for $1. It's better
than driving along the interstate in Mississippi and seeing thousands and
thousands of those very trailers ROT.

 

Well....I don't live down there, but I spent a year out of my life working on the Gulf Coast from Gautier MS to NOLA and beyond.
The differences between how the folks in Mississippi handled the hurricanes and those in Louisiana is like the difference between night and day. It took the people of Mississippi less than 5 months to get all the debris cleaned up, houses torn down and those who wished to rebuild had started rebuilding.
I worked the next 7 months in Louisiana and those people sat around BMWing because the "Government" wasn't sending money fast enough. To hell with helping themselves......they wanted it all done for them.
After 7 months in Louisiana (October 2006), work had progressed about 25% of what had been done in only 5 months in Mississippi.
So for the most part, those in Louisiana were responsible for their own misery, because many of them refused to do anything for themselves and were pissed off that others weren't doing it fast enough.

Oh....and Mississippi suffered the BRUNT of the storm, The eye of the hurricane passed just west of Bay St Louis, with a 70ft storm surge in Waveland/Bay St Louis; a 50 ft storm surge in Gulfport and a 35 ft storm surge in Buloxi.

Waveland was completely wiped off the map, only house foundations was left in the entire town.

 

Like the ones that the Parish Presidents and mayors refused to allow the government set up?

 

While some are on private propery , I delivered many of them directly to the parks where they were set up . Many of the homeless had been renters that didn't own property .