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Stan's Roll Call (Not a Military Blog)Roll call #21
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:50 PM
Hi All,
Just got back on-line. The puter I am networked too had a HD failure.
My son tried to use Norton Ghost to save his data. After all I read about
putting the HD in the freezer, it really worked after about 5 tries.
He modified the procedure by putting a fan on HD after freezing it.
As to my status, I received a downer, when my application for an NFCU "Equity Loan" (Line of Credit Loan) was turned down after a 12 day delay because their "Inspector" said the house was "un-inhabitable". According to my son, she drove up, took a picture from about 90 feet away and told him she was heading to Eden Isles to work on her home.
The next day I received several letters (each was duplicated) from our "good friends" at FEMA telling me I was ineligible for assistance because I had insurance and ineligible for something else because my house did not receive enough damage.
Their inspector had told me I would be getting a trailer because my house was unlivable.
Esther received 2 automated response calls about 2 weeks ago, saying I would be getting a couple of forms to be filled out and returned to them for further assistance. Their response time has already run out and I have received nothing.
My Flood Insurance people told me that the prelim report was received and it was sent back for a Final Report. The adjustor told me that the Company had lost it and it had to start over. The only good news was that instead of covering only 4 feet they would cover the full 8 ft of wall (sheetrock). So if and when I get the check it should really help.
Well, everyone tells me to hang on, things will get better.
Stan
Not much to pass on, except for the fact that the Roll Call Blog is up and running.
Hi Stan:
Woke up about 2AM local, and couldn't sleep, so I went to work, and now all of your roll calls have been posted. Please feel free to post directly to the Blog by sending your Roll Calls to:
The only thing to remember is that the Subject field becomes the Title of the posting.
You might wish to keep sending them to me for me to post. That way, I can remove the email addresses, addresses and telephone numbers before posting them. Your decision. Also, your friends my post directly by using the email address. Also, your decision. If you want them to do so, caution them not to post email addresses, addresses (city & state are OK) and telephone numbers. I think that the way that you are doing it now is just fine.
At any rate, I have caught up now, so you can use it, and the postings will remain in reverse (most recent first) chronological order.
If you do use the above email address to automatically post, please send me a copy as usual. I have it set so that I have to release them for posting - even my own emails. I will check once a day for new postings, and release all that have been received after screening. That is just in case some loose cannon gets the email address, and sends something that shouldn't be posted anywhere. I had a forum that is now closed, and it does happen.
Regards,
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Hey Stan, Hope you are progressing, I know it was rough with your son going home. There are plenty of people down here still helping and if you need help just ask. We have people coming today from Washington State that are with the Forestry Dept. They are cutting trees that are too large for our chainsaw. It is so good to hear about everyone. We went to Sams funeral and it was probably one of the saddest funerals I have ever attended. The rest of this email is one that I sent to Pat Salts, he was nice enough to forward me your roll calls. Randy and I retired as of Oct 1. We took early outs. Had we known this was going to happen I don't know if I would still have retired but we work all day around here, sleep and start all over again the next day. We had damage to our house, gutted 4+ rooms due to roof loss. A tornado hit the house across from us and took to entire roof down to the bricks and then came across and hit the corner of our house and then swung around and hit the backside of the other part of our house. Our house is L shaped. There were 15 people at the house across the street and thank goodness noone was hurt. we had 30 trees down. Downtown Long Beach south of the tracks is gone. Pass is total devastation. If you had a dollar to spend, you couldn't. It is very depressing. I have not been to the East and haven't been to the Bay or Waveland but they are gone also. Went to Pearlington with Marie Reynolds a week after the storm and everything there is destroyed or gutted. Joe Matt and Lois Nutwell were down for the week of Oct 7-13 and stayed with us. They still own a house here and the roof was pretty much gone from it. For those of you that live in the DC area Lois took video of Long Beach and the Pass. I attended the first of town meetings yesterday on rebuilding the coast and it is very encouraging. there were 400+ people there. I encourage everyone to attend one of these meetings and get involved. They have a website you can go to and it is www.governorscommission.com We still don't have land line phone, noone in our neighborhood does. We got cable and Internet use back last week. With the amount of devastation in the area I think that is pretty fast. I have to say that for the most part the people that lost everything are coping quite well and have a good attitude. The people on the MS Gulf Coast are pretty resilient. Keep in touch. Carol (Herr)
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Hi Stan:
As of this writing here are the visitor stats for Mr. Worchel's Ravaged Neighborhood:
From the Ad at the top of webpages: 28 (Starting about 11AM on the 18th)
Total - all sources 42 (Starting about 7AM on the 20th)
That isn't very many, but, you can expect the Total visitors to increase fairly fast, as the search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc) have found the blog, and have started crawling it every time we make a posting. Also, I have about 20 blog syndicators that I am notifying everytime that you post, and they are crawling it to add the new entries in their syndication databases..
Regards,
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Melissa,
I had to do something here so I tryed to find some EPA contact. Here is what seemed right so I sent them and email. We all need to be calling Trent Lotts office about what was done to protect our environment and why this is being done. I head that other dumps are now not getting debris because this has opened. There are lots of industrial areas and already approved solid disposal areas in Hancock that do not pose such a hazard. I will let you know what I hear back. Others may want to write similar letters or make calls.
I have a good photo of the farm flooded in July when the little storm went way over to Alabama.
TS Cindy - July 6 - I think it was. I will find it and send it out. Should help make the case that this is wrong.
Terry Towles
TO:Office of Water Resource Center (OWRC)
202-566-1729, 202-566-1736 (fax), 1-800-832-7828 (Wetlands Helpline)
email: center.water-resource@epa.gov
202-566-1729, 202-566-1736 (fax), 1-800-832-7828 (Wetlands Helpline)
email: center.water-resource@epa.gov
From: Terry Towles
Bay Saint Louis, MS
It is sure hard to find contract information for the EPA in the phone book and government listing.
I hope this is the right place to start and if not you can send me to the right placed.
On top of the Hurricane damage we suffered from Katrina we are about to see another in the middle of our residential community. A dump is being started in a wetland/farm in the middle of a community of homes and waterfront (non-industrial) where I just lost my house. This area is subject to winter and storm flood and debris is now being brought in containing who knows what.
The area is at the end of Washington Street or on Jordan River Road in Hancock county, Mississippi near Bay Saint Louis,MS 39520.
From you web page. "EPA serves as the lead Agency for the cleanup of hazardous materials"
What information do you have on any approvals for this mis-use of this area and what is being done to protect the surrounding wetlands and communities.
Help us to prevent another disaster on top of the one we just had.
Use of this area is not needed for the clean-up and is a very unwise environmental move.
Terry Towles
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