(12 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Ashland, Louisiana – 12 September 2024
1. Flooded yard
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Wilson Garner, Property damaged during hurricane:
"I lost the roof on the shop. I had a lot of strong winds. Lot of water as you can see."
3. Garner’s flooded property
++FULLY COVERED BY SHOT 3++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Wilson Garner, Property damaged during hurricane:
"Worst of it was two years ago, almost three years ago. Ida."
++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 6-8++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Wilson Garner, Property damaged during hurricane:
"Ida tore this trailer up and tore the back house up so we didn’t come out. We still trying to get everything straight with FEMA and restore Louisiana to a place to have a home again, and it costs me money I don’t have. I don’t understand how they expect me to pay stuff when I was in a disaster and don’t have money."
6. Wilson and friend work on trailer
7. Back of Garner’s home surrounded by floodwaters
8. Garner walks through flooded property
STORYLINE:
When Hurricane Francine blew through, Wilson Garner’s entire property in the southern Louisiana town of Ashland had flooded. Water rose up to the bumpers of the broken down cars the retired 73-year-old fixed to supplement his social security income. He stood on steps of the FEMA trailer he had been living in after his old home was destroyed by Hurricane Ida in 2021, and he had been fighting for years to get sufficient funding to fix it up before the latest Hurricane arrived.
“It’s costing me money I don’t have,” he said. “I don’t understand how they expect me to pay stuff when I was in a disaster and don’t have money.”
Garner stood on his steps with a plastic bag wrapped around one foot because he had no boots to wade through the muck. He said all he could do was pray now that his property flooded again, and he needed dirt to cover up the shin high water all around his trailer.
“If we don’t get dirt to lift it up, this is the way it’s gonna be,” Garner said.
Even before the latest flooding, he faced the pressure of a November deadline to leave his FEMA trailer. Garner had been trying to move out of the damaged property for years, but the $1,000 a month rental stipend from FEMA was not enough, he said.
“You find a place for $1,000 man, you’re very lucky,” he said. “We just haven’t had no success. Where am I going to go? I don’t know.”
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