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Matt Van Swol
@matt_vanswol
FEMA seems to be very confused about why #WNC residents receiving the “maximum” payout are still upset.
Let me explain:
a) You’re living in your retirement home in Chimney Rock at age 68 with your wife, you both saved up forever for this home.
b) Helene comes in and carries that home down into the lake below, your whole life savings along with it.
c) You barely escape with your life and a few weeks later submit a “housing assistance” form on FEMA’s website.
d) FEMA shows up and takes a look at where your home used to be and says, “Yep, that sucks, you qualify!”
e) You feel lucky, many of your neighbors didn’t qualify so you wait on FEMA to get back to you.
f) A few days later you receive a payout into your bank account of $42,500.
g) You turn to your wife and say… wait a minute, we still have $120,000 left on our mortgage, but we don’t have a house!
h) You call FEMA and say, “Hey, I’m grateful for the $42,500, but I don’t have a home and I still owe 6 figures on the one that doesn’t exist. What do I do now?”
i) FEMA says, totally get it, we can put you up in a hotel for 31 days.
j) You say, I don’t need a hotel, I need a plan to rebuild my home and get my life back together!
k) FEMA says, “Oh right, about that… you can’t actually build on the land your house once existed on because it’s in a flood plain now.”
l) You sit there in silence. Finally you respond, “So my home is in a lake, I only have $42,500 to my name, I owe $120,000 on my mortgage, and the land I currently own, I can’t even build on?”
m) FEMA goes, “That’s correct, here’s a 31 day hotel voucher.
That’s why people are pissed.
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