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When I got hit by the tornado in 98, we got some decent FEMA assistance. But in hindsight, it’s cause I knew how the system worked. I don’t know how the average guy made out.
We also did OK from hurricane Sandy up north in Jersey and by Manhattan, but for the opposite reason, that everybody else knew the system, and fortunately we were caught in the wave so to speak
When we helped out in North Carolina last year, it was obvious that it was 180° to what I experienced. There was some help available if you were involved with the right politics, and you were avoided if you were not with the right politics. What was absolutely astounding was how the local communities pulled together and helped each other and worked as a team to work out of it. We were happy to assist with that, but it was a drop in the bucket.
A joke a lot, but I like to think I am a man of God and a man of prayer. Prayer does work. If you can’t get your boots dirty, get your knees dirty. Pray for them, all of them.