So here are two rather telltale pictures of our current situation. The top is the pile of "what used to make up the insides of my house" and the bottom is a glimpse of what you can see while standing in my kitchen, which is thru the kitchen wall, across the living room, thru the stairway, thru the master closet and into the master bath (which is a diagonal from the one side of the bottom story into the far side of the top story). The mound of drywall and insulation and carpeting is staggering. It's about 10 ft tall and 30 ft long.
The good news in all of this...we will have an almost entirely brand new house. New roof, new walls, new ceilings, new paint, new flooring, new countertops, no more scary 80s wallpaper...and we get to choose all of the colors!
The bad news is...time...LOTS of time until we can go home. Probably at least two months. There are so many steps to the process and nothing is going quickly down here right now.
We have applied for FEMA aid with our housing situation and were approved for hotel assistance but there aren't any hotels for 60-100 miles available (all have 200 people on their waiting list) and it expires Oct 14th.
Other options like an apartment or a friend-of-a-friend who has an empty home haven't panned out as every available housing situation has been quickly scooped up by the other displaced Ike people. We are really struggling to stay here in town so we can keep the kids in their school which will resume next Monday after a 12 instruction day vacation courtesy of Ike.
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Down to the bones eh? wow!
You life is most certainly not normal right now is it?
Hang in there. And, yes, and new stuff is fun!
You guys are renting right? I keep getting lost on that point. For some reason I thought you had bought a house. Yet, you talked about a landlord so I'm wondering.
Yes we are renting. We are looking to buy something in the spring and one of our favorite options is this house, but we signed a 1yr lease when we got here so we have to ride that out. Now it looks like if we buy this house it will be darned brand new!
Well,then, I guess some gifts come in very wet packages my friend!:)
Reminds me of something I love about God. He can allready see the awesome makeover at the end of our struggles and he thinks "I know this looks like suck city, but you should see what I'm going to do with it on the other side!!!".
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