UPDATE: Michael Stettler will be interviewed on the radio on Monday 3/26/07 in the third hour of Bob Kincaid’s show on Head-On. The show is on from 6-9pm Eastern time.
This article is cross posted at Political Teen Tidbits and the Texas Mission Site.
Pascagoula, Mississippi is one of those places that’s really hard to spell. Maybe that is why FEMA and the assistance organizations are having such a hard time finding it.
Or
maybe not.
Pascagoula is the county seat for Jackson County and had 26,200 people in 2000 according to its census. Here you can find the history of the city.
Michael Stettler is currently in Pascagoula, Mississippi as a volunteer with the Jackson County Community Services Coalition.
Michael is an electrician and a congressional candidate but a lot of what he is doing in Mississippi is assessing the housing needs of the clients Jim Yancey sees at Jackson County Community Services Coalition.
Some homeowners got some money from FEMA but they got ripped off by contractors and roofers. Some families have not gotten any money or not nearly enough money. Stetty reports that although 95% of homeowners have at least had their assessment done, he hasn’t seen any houses that are completely fixed from the hurricane’s wind and water. He has met many people whose houses still smell terrible from water damage and mold, and no one has cleaned up the mold or put in new carpets or floors.
Look at this map of Pascagoula.
The oval looking white area is where thousands and thousands of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina a year and a half ago still live in very unsafe trailer park. All of the blue squares are where people still have tarps instead of real roof for their houses.
More pix here (click to enlarge):
Please write to all of your representatives and senators in Washington and tell them that we can’t let Americans keep on living like this. It is unAmerican!
March 25, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Glad to help. I’ll do what I can.
March 25, 2007 at 10:02 pm
It’s understood that the FEMA, a government agency, did a shitty job with Katrina.
And we want to trust the government with our healthcare??
March 25, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Not the BUSH administration with all their cronyism and privatization. But a real, democratic government, with a real organization that isn’t aiming to screw people, YES I would trust them with healthcare. I already do!
March 26, 2007 at 6:25 pm
No of course, a real democratic government won’t screw people over. NEVER!
Universal healthcare combines the efficiency of the postal service with the compassion of the IRS.
It’s not the Bush administration that is to blame, but rather the huge, heartless monster known as government bureaucracy. I hate to break it to you, but no government cares about its people. Private companies, however, care about their paying customers.
March 28, 2007 at 6:57 am
[...] … this country is committing against the people of Mississippi. [...]