Finally
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Remember last February when I was talking about the tornado that came through town and totaled the van I was driving? Well, the van that got destroyed belongs to my mother-in-law. She contacted FEMA right away about getting help replacing it. They, being the government, just gave her a check for the van a few days ago.
Four months to process a claim isn’t bad enough, I guess, because the check came with a letter saying not to cash the check until she’d received another letter detailing what she was and was not allowed to buy with the money. Presumably, things like a vehicle, tags and auto insurance are fine, but they’re tring to discurage people from spending FEMA checks on stuff like PowerBall tickets.
I’m just glad they finally did something and now she is free to sell off the Dodge Caravan-shaped hunk of scrap metal in her yard. Honestly, even though there was no way I could have kept that from happening, there’s still something inside me that feels guilr every time I look at that van.
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LMAO, and they would spend them on them too. I ran a gas station by nearby “ghetto” housing that the put a bunch of Katrina Refugees in after Hurricane Katrina. And Fema gave these people credit cards loaded with cash that would reload everymonth, and they spent them completely on cigarettes, beer, and cigars (You know to roll their mary jane in). Seriously. FEMA even gave them like 5G’s worth of furniture that all of them sold when their fema ran out because they had no more money, couldn’t stay, and needed bus money back home to new orleans.
Sad really.