Comments on: Are FEMA Trailers Making Residents Sick?

CBS News: Homes For Those Displaced By Katrina Can Contain High Toxin Levels

[proudla]

To all the people who think we should be out of FEMA trailers and shouldn't complain about them.

I lived in a house that was over 50% damaged. We lived in our gutted home from the end of September until Thanksgiving Day. The reason being the FEMA trailer didn't arrive until that day. Please, put yourself in our shoes for a change. Unless you have lived it, YOU have no right to judge us. They have elderly people who are living in tents and have died due to this massive hurricane. You have to stay somewhere to put your lives together or to finish your business to move on. People do not want to take us in and the ones who have are complaining about it, so we choose to live in whatever.

Most of the towns we live are GONE!!!! Where do you want us to live? God bless the volunteers who are living in churches in the regional areas and sleeping on cots. Why don't you guys take a trip down here and then maybe your eyes will awaken to the horror which has been our lives.

[sunshie25]

my bad, tucanofulano, sorry to mess up your name....

[sunshie25]

Are you kidding, tulanofulano? You should work for the government, using one story to fuel another.....

[tucano2]

It seems obvious the FEMA trailers are made of the same poisonous chemicals used to make the so-called mobile school rooms Americans children are forced to use instead of safer regular schoolbuildings due the overcrowding resulting from millions and millions of Illegal Aliens sucking the school monies out of every school district's budgets. At least part of the solution is to deport those criminal invaders immediately.

[marcodele]

P.S. to dragonmouse: The "deferred" credit payments you cite were for 3 months with creditors and 6 months with mortgage lenders. After that time, the ENTIRE past due balance was due, and all the so called "deferred" payments were placed on Credit Bureau records as "past due."

Welcome to reality. Again, hopefully someday you'll be capable of understanding that bad things happen to good people - it doesn't mean they are evil liberals sucking off the government teet. In fact, they are victims of the government as much as a natural disaster.

[marcodele]

dragonmouse:

When you lose all your possessions, all your savings, all your clothes, furniture, roof, and you still have to make a mortgage payment on a slab while fighting your insurance company for coverage you were paying for; when you have to pull your kids out of school or college; when you have to pay triple price for home renovation repairs while assistance programs keep denying you aid based on errors; when your President never makes good on the promises he made to help you, but shows up occasionally to be photographed with a black family; when your job is in danger of moving because the population hasn't come back; when you have to pay quadruple price for furniture and clothing; well my friend, that's when living in a FEMA trailer for two years becomes a necessity, not a government handout.

Hopefully it will all happen to you someday - that's the only way neocons can understand things - if it flies right up their butts.

[strefo-2009]

First, I should apologize for not saying this in my first post...God Bless those that lived through Katrina and those who didn't make it rest in peace.

Second, thanks for the well thought out response, nolalou. I appreciate educated debate and comment. I agree the Federal government should have had certain safeguards in place for the levees. I don't know at what point the safeguards wouldn't have made any difference anyway. Unfortunately, sometimes these things just happen no matter the preparation.

I absolutely believe the people affected should be helped. I wonder when it stops being labelled "help" and starts being a "handout". Everyone I know has struggled and sacrificed to have what they do and be where they are. I don't know anyone who hasn't said when X happens I will do Y. I suspect this is the case in a lot of FEMA trailers. It is unfortunate that this happened to you and your neighbors. My message (to those still in the trailers) is stop waiting for X to happen and, if necessary, really do what ever to get out of this ongoing, harmful situation before it is too late. Peace to all in the process it takes to take the next step.

[tronix7787]

I feel sorry for these people who have to live in these conditions. I was praying that by now things would be back to normal. It's been two years now and most houses can be built back up within months. I just can't understand the delays these poor people are going through.

Mark Geuy

[dinocards42]

This person lives in Mississippi. There could be other causes for the problem. Like mold from the high humitdy there, poor cleaning etc. Don't blame the trailers only. But they should be out of them by now, if just into housing somewhere. I thought there was a limit of time you can live in a fema trailer.

[jdubs63]

I really feel for the children and the elderly. Education is needed as how tomove on and recovery in our life.And what are we all doing about this?Educate educate.