FEMA Denies Request for Assistance

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Originally posted by KathyH

Still a shame. I wonder if FEMA looks mainly at infrastructure damage stats like bridges destroyed, highways, and structures with damage, loss of life (for severity, even though it can't be fixed), rating of storm.

They probably can't comprehend what it's like to have endless numbers of huge fallen trees in the way of everything. The trees are not a value loss, or a structure loss, but yet they must be dealt with.

I don't know what FEMA's criteria are, but I feel there must be a culture gap in play somewhere in the denial.

Kathy

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Bobbie Jean told me that FEMA wanted the GPS location of each tree that fell. She was pretty disgusted with the bureaucracy. I jokingly said to her to give them the GPS at top and GPS at bottom and say approx 8 miles of trees.