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Seeking government relief and assistance from the affects of the COVID-19 pandemic? Doris Brown and other lower-income survivors of the Hurricane Harvey disaster are offering a word of warning.
According to Ms. Brown, her home was uninhabitable for 26 months after the hurricane. She and her neighbors bailed two feet of water out of the home that came in through a 3-foot wide hole in the roof. It took more than a few months for the walls to dry out on their own and as a result mold took over.
All that is really bad, but what made things even worse was the FEMA assessor who inspected the home. The assessor said just the opposite of everyone else who had looked at her home; it was inhabitable as far as the assessor was concerned.
In August of 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped an estimated one trillion gallons of water on the City of Houston, the largest recorded rainfall in U.S. history. Her house wasn’t the only one under water and then inundated with mold. Hers was just one of the ones that FEMA said was still functional and required no government assistance.
This is a disabled senior lady who uses a breathing machine to survive and whose house that was infested with mold.
Natural disasters can strike everyone, rich or poor. Americans think that their government will take care of its citizens in a disaster’s aftermath. Ms. Brown and her neighbors say it doesn’t always work out that way. During times of economic crisis, real assistance doesn’t always reach the people who need it the most. The last thing you should do is to rely on government assistance alone.
The same thing goes as we start to come out from under economic problems caused by the CoronaVirus pandemic. Water Mold Fire Restoration of Houston wants you to know that we stand ready to help our friends and fellow citizens of the Houston area in any way we can. We never closed our doors and our emergency teams stand ready to respond to any emergency situation that you may have. Call us 24/7 at (713) 496-2066. Don’t sit around waiting for some “alphabet soup” agency of the state or local government to come to your aid.
