[StBernard] List-NOW: Moving Forward

[Westley Annis]

Thank you, Sue, for saying pretty much what has been going through my mind
for the past year.

One thing that bothers me even more, is all of the "got-mines" busy minding
everybody else's' business.  If I hear/read one more know-it-all telling me
how bad a person I am for starting my life over here in Texas.
Unfortunately, my insurance and financial situations do not allow me to
rebuild and come back to a going-nowhere job.  At least here in Texas, I got
an opportunity I never would have had in Louisiana, and a chance to actually
do something with my life.

We will be back at the end of June to have our house gutted, and if
necessary, have it torn down.  I am hopeful that it is sound enough to sell,
but if it isn't, c'est la guerre.  I'll make an appointment with a
bulldozer, and sell the property.

And for the record, I am damn proud to have graduated from Chalmette High
School, and proud to have been a part of the (formerly) friendly community
of Chalmette.

Sam Costanza


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> Thank you Paul, once again I feel betrayed. We were led to believe 

> that all these list was for was just to know our intentions. Who was 

> coming back and who wasn't. Out of the blue we get this notice about 

> August 29, GEE thanks a lot guys. Here we are sitting on a gutting 

> list, with no way of having a house gutted and given a notice that 

> cannot be possibly met. LRA money has not even passed yet. All I have 

> done is cry since this came out. Our parish has betrayed us since the 

> first week of the hurricane, I remember sitting in Texas and hearing 

> our officials state that we would not have a school in the parish for 

> at least a year if then. I panicked then saying they are killing us by 

> saying this because people are going not going to waste a year of 

> their children's life. Everything we heard was negative. Most of the 

> parish would have to be taken down. Has any of this been true, NO 

> there was a school there in no time and there were only 3000 house's 

> on the demolitions list and most of them because the people had 

> settled elsewhere and did not want to be bothered, not because they 

> needed to be taken down. All of you officials take credit for running 

> our community away and here you seem to be finishing off the job by 

> imposing this impossible deadline even if we wanted to their is no way 

> for most of us to order the windows (if we had the money)and have them 

> installed in time. Especially when this is the only place I have seen 

> this posted. How many people still do not know about this ?  I have 

> personally been thoroughly  betrayed by the Army core of engineers, 

> the federal government, My insurance company, and once again by my own 

> parish . Thanks a lot. I will be in before the 9th to sign up for the 

> demolition, so make it 3001 now. My family will be happy because they 

> did not want me going back by myself. But make no mistake that I am find

with this I have shed many tears over this and I know their are a lot more
to come.

> Not afraid to sign my name

> Sue

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