[StBernard] moving the FEMA trailer

[Westley Annis]

One of the television stations did a story last week about evacuation and
FEMA trailers. The FEMA spokesman told the reporter that it is illegal to
move a FEMA trailer so they can't be towed out of town by the resident.  He
also said that there was no way FEMA would have time to send their
contractors to unhook the trailers from their utilities and haul them
elsewhere. Then he said something quickly about people not being allowed to
remain in the trailers during a storm. He said that hauling trailers on the
interstate evacuation routes will hamper evacuation, so maybe they plan to
have State police pull you over.
 
So without saying it directly, it sounds like FEMA's hurricane plan is that
government will mandate that we leave the trailers where they are. If the
winds are high, they'll be a lot of white boxes tossed around the metro area
with the rest of our belongings inside. 
 
Sounds like anyone now in a FEMA trailer needs to be ready to grab the
personal belongings and find somewhere else to ride out a storm, and be
ready to evacuate the metro area for anything serious.
 
My suggestion if you haven't done so already-have a safe deposit box for
your valuables at a bank where the ground is high, get a well-built storage
facility that has an interior cubicle and is not on the first floor for your
clothes and sentimental belongings, etc. , have your financial and insurance
papers and all the Katrina paperwork that you've accumulated in a plastic
container to take with you or store somewhere safe,  And finally, plan early
and leave early. Better to just end up leaving for a false alarm, than go
through the evacuation chaos of last August. Consider the false alarms a
much needed vacation.

Ddk