What Would You Do?

What would you do if your city/town flooded?
Your home was under 14ft of water?
Everything you had was destroyed?
You couldn't go to work, because your work was flooded/destroyed?
So you can't get a paycheck to feed your family.
You didn't have the deed to your home, it was at the courthouse, that's now flooded?
So, your home, you cannot defend, there's nothing proving it's your home.
You couldn't get your birth certificate, it's in the court house that flooded?
So you can't prove you are who you are, everything you had is destroyed.
You couldn't get help, because help hadn't arrived?

Everything you've ever known is under water and is about to be destroyed?

I've talked with family after family over the course of my trip, each telling almost the exact same story; the last 3 years of their lives has been a complete and utter struggle. Did you know that the first group of people to come down to Louisiana and help were not even Americans? It was a group from Canada! And they had to fight their way through barricades to get to people to help?

This entire trip has been an experience. I watched the 6 o clock news tonight. Headlining all stories was that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of an Insurance Company instead of home owners. What was the fight over? Should the insurance company pay out to homeowners for a flood damages, if the homeowner only had homeowners insurance, no flood insurance?

The levies put in place to withstand hurricanes had engineering flaws in them, therefore, the flood in the city I'm currently volunteering in was created due to human error. These same homeowners were told they didn't need flood insurance because they were in a particular region that is "flood resistant". When they inquired about getting flood insurance, they were told they didn't need it.

Read here at:
http://www.nola.com/news
Click on Supreme Court Rules story

I cannot say more. It's so frustrating to hear over and over from family after family the same story. No discrepancy, it's all the same.

I leave tomorrow evening to head back to Minnesota. It's so true how volunteers come down here for a week and end up staying for months, even years. I am already planning my next trip down, hopefully in August. I hope to share more with you soon, today has been a mentally exhausting day.