people affected in florida that can't work and need help - The Hull Truth

AGULHAS · 09-09-2004, 06:51 PM

what are you people doing in florida besides sitting this out. anybody need little things that can be sent or any help that can be given. especially after ivan. make the rest of us feel that we can help even if its something small and you have no one else out of florida.

there may be info that would help. someone may be in insurance with some info or construction. etc.

Glen E · 09-09-2004, 06:59 PM

find a pharmacist or an MD and send valium..people down here are numb - dazed and confused - tempers are short and the local psyche is very shaken...no one down here can believe what's happening..I have a MD friend that runs an urg med care facility and the amount of mental problems/breakdowns/anxiety is up 10 fold...

ReelWork · 09-09-2004, 07:45 PM

Good post Agulhas..

I think you and I come from the same tree as you pretty much stated the same motto I have of "I'd like to help out, REALLY! Just say the word.. "

In Too Deep · 09-10-2004, 08:00 AM

Apparently we're not the only ones feeling helpless in these storms. My sister just told me that my whole family wants to come down from Ohio to help but doesn't know what to do, and I'm sure many feel the same way. Right now the best things to do are pray and make a donation to the Red Cross. After Charley the Red Cross has been down here helping everyone that they can and I'm sure they could use the financial help as they now have been spread across almost the entire state. With Ivan threatening Fl I know they will be here even longer.
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp

Chris
Hoping Ivan swings and misses.

slickster · 09-10-2004, 08:36 AM

I live in st sugustine and we are getting ready for #3, I have found most folks to be calm and the community is pulling together, we were without power for only 3 days and did the best we could, we aren't mad or confused, just tired, sleeping in the heat and eating out of warm cans gets old, we came through better than the people 1-2 hundred miles south of here, they don't have much to go back to....now probably isn't the time to come down and try to help, contact the red cross and see what they need, contact friends or family of friends that live in florida and see what they need, rebuild time is later....bottom line....this really screws up the fishing.....thanks for the concern....Mick

ave8er · 09-10-2004, 11:48 AM

Tempers are short only on those with no power, which includes me. No power in my house also means no running water. No A/C in a house that is as hot as hades, no phone, no TV, no cable, Ice is scarse. My brain is fried! I put the wrong contact's in my eyes i.e. right in left and spent half the day thinking I was going blind. I cooked on the gas grill, and forgot to shut it off, walked out the next morning to walk the dog and realized the grill was still hot! There goes a tank of hard to get Propane! I stood in line for a Generator at Lowes, got almost to the front and a big fight broke out and the Police shut the store down and sent everyone home. I wasn't fighting

: I just feel like I am in a daze. Then when you call FPL they say "you should have power on the 19th at 11:45 pm" I wanted scream! But it could be worse, I do have a house that is not destroyed, and I can come to work and use the internet and I can use the greasy mecanics shower to at least clean up a little, I have a car charger for the cell phone. We are going to spend the weekend in a motel if we can find one, just to get away.

KevinM · 09-10-2004, 12:39 PM

Got the eye wall from Francis, some businesses and homeowners still no power in Palm Bch County. Friends who own business have told me that FEMA has some type of compensation for lost business and work time. Can't verify this but that is what I have heard.

diver dave · 09-10-2004, 02:34 PM

That's too funny. I'm also without power, since sat 1pm. My wife is going nuts, for real. She yelled at the 4 y/o for not wearing "matching" shirt and pants 1st thing this am. I suppose sleeping with me in a 90 deg 90% RH swamp of a bed with no fan doesn't help the psychi. We are on a canal, and all nite we hear a honda 13 hp, a POS techumsha 10hp, a unknown gen across the canal, and one pallatized diesel, all running 24/7. Everyone has there genset exhaust aimed away from their own home, meaning their aimed at their neighbors home. Its like everyone is mowing there lawn at the same time, all nite. Two nites ago, i tried earplugs; i slept, but 8 hours later i had sore ears. Last nite, was so tired even the POS techumasha couldn't keep me awake. My boat is trapped in Ft. Lauderdale, 'cause in my canal all the big in-water boats are still tied across. oh, one last thing. I have a empty lot directly across the street. THe neighborhood has been using it for all the busted up trees. If Ivan hits, I'll have the beginnings of a rainforest in my living room, since the debris trucks are no where to be seen...

Wet-n-Wiley · 09-10-2004, 04:09 PM

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Wet-n-Wiley · 09-10-2004, 10:23 PM

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KevinM - 9/10/2004 12:39 PM

Got the eye wall from Francis, some businesses and homeowners still no power in Palm Bch County. Friends who own business have told me that FEMA has some type of compensation for lost business and work time. Can't verify this but that is what I have heard.

We heard this too and really need help so we called FEMA. The woman from FEMA sounded untrained. She stated we could opt for $25/day unemployment benefits or a low interest rate loan from the SBA. We're not quite sure if these were the options we needed and decided not to do anything right then.

We are going to research options further before calling back.

swamppro · 09-10-2004, 11:19 PM

My heart goes out for ya'll over there. Where I am at if we took one hit like ya'll had New orleans would be a big bowl of water still. I donated at a local bank just to try and do my part. Also, While I was at a marina we were talking to a gentleman that said his relatives came in town when they're gen. threw a rod. They wanted to get some things here, get some extra money together, and try and get they're heads cleared up alittle bit. I had an older gen. that used alittle oil that we never used since we got a new one before our last storm scare. Needless to say they went back with a gen. and alittle extra money since they did not have to buy a new one. If more people would do just alittle bit or just a small donation it could really help someone out that needs it. It also felt very good deep inside to know what a relief of stress I might have taken off they're back for alittle while. Take care and God bless!

Fisher-Price · 09-11-2004, 08:55 AM

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Wet-n-Wiley - 9/10/2004 10:23 PM

We heard this too and really need help so we called FEMA. The woman from FEMA sounded untrained. She stated we could opt for $25/day unemployment benefits or a low interest rate loan from the SBA. We're not quite sure if these were the options we needed and decided not to do anything right then.

We are going to research options further before calling back.

Good Luck,

We tried FEMA when we lost our house due to flooding from Floyd in 1999. The only way you can get the SBA loan is to be absolutely 0 broke. If you have anything in checking or god forbid a savings account you will not qualify for the loan. Also if you get an SBA loan any money you borrow in the future, is subject to FEMA's approval until their loan is paid. Also waiting on a FEMA loan will put you 6 months behind getting started on rebuilding or repairing. FEMA is for non working people who have not in the past and will not in the future support themselves.

I would like to mention that the Red Cross, NC Baptist Men, our local community and other churches across out state are the ones that pitch in to help immediately.

I also forgot to mention the best that FEMA has to offer. If your $5,000 trailer house gits tored up and your combined household income for the last 5 years wuz less than $15,000. You can git a $75,000 grant immediately that does not have to be paid back or considered as income.

Scott

Wet-n-Wiley · 09-11-2004, 11:14 AM

Yeah... we've basically given up on any type of assistance for being out of work.
Look for a lot of Wiley stuff on eBay soon.

ave8er · 09-13-2004, 08:31 AM

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sscottp - 9/11/2004 8:55 AM

Good Luck,

We tried FEMA when we lost our house due to flooding from Floyd in 1999. The only way you can get the SBA loan is to be absolutely 0 broke. If you have anything in checking or god forbid a savings account you will not qualify for the loan. Also if you get an SBA loan any money you borrow in the future, is subject to FEMA's approval until their loan is paid. Also waiting on a FEMA loan will put you 6 months behind getting started on rebuilding or repairing. FEMA is for non working people who have not in the past and will not in the future support themselves.

I would like to mention that the Red Cross, NC Baptist Men, our local community and other churches across out state are the ones that pitch in to help immediately.

I also forgot to mention the best that FEMA has to offer. If your $5,000 trailer house gits tored up and your combined household income for the last 5 years wuz less than $15,000. You can git a $75,000 grant immediately that does not have to be paid back or considered as income.

Scott

That is real funny! At this point I need a laugh. If your $5,000 house gets torn up you get 75K If your 225K house gets destroyed you are supposed to eat the $4500.00 deductable and the generator and the chainsaw and 300.00 for gass for the damn Gen. etc. Because you have a little money

Just because I have a few nice things doesn't mean I am not broke! After all, since I am not a minority and I make a decent wage, I have to PAY for my kids to go to college!

I think they need to come up with a program where if you pay a butt load of taxes and something like this happens the funds are given back proportionaly based on what you paid in.

Fisher-Price · 09-13-2004, 02:59 PM

ave8er,

You haven't heard the funniest part. The people still living in those $5,000 trailers that received the $75,000 grants didn't upgrade their dwellings. They got brand new Navigators and Escalades to park outside. Meanwhile some of them that I know personally are trying to sue FEMA to buy out their trailers because of the mold and mildew problems associated with not cleaning up (cloroxing and replacing belly pans and flooring) or replacing the $5,000 particle board mansions way back in 1999.

As I said before you have to have no money to qualify for an SBA loan. Then when you start construction you have to pay the bills as they come in and them submit them to SBA for reimbursement to you. If you have no money how can you pay the bill while waiting for SBA reimbursement?

The last person at FEMA we spoke to told us to make yourself a problem then you can get assistance. She explained to us how to make ourselves a problem. With no money in the bank go out and rent an apartment (with no money) and then come back and show us that you have rented an apartment (with no money) and have no money and then we can get started on your assistance.

Scott

neckbone · 09-13-2004, 04:24 PM

How are everyones insurance companies handling the claims? Have claims been paid? How are your deductibles working? Are you required to pay a deductible for Charley and another for Frances? I know this is a hard time for everyone, but you will get through it.