This trigger has been hijacked for my own selfish purpose. Finally, as we near the 1 year mark, when Hurricane Irene caused my Family home to collapse, I received a phone call from Home Depot today, August 6th, 2012, informing me that the Home Depot Foundation has approved our
(more) request for assistance.
Within 2 months, my Parents will finally be able to go home again!
As some of you may know, on August 27th, 2011, at 1:00am (making it officially August 28th) Hurricane Irene roared through New Jersey. The combination of rain, wind, and flood waters caused the foundation wall to collapse causing a chain of events that resulted in leaving my Mom and Dad, both in their 80's, homeless.
Filed under the category of an Act Of Nature, the insurance company refused to pay for anything.
Due to the current state of the economy, banks were unwilling to loan an elderly couple on a fixed income anything at all. They said the house couldn't be used for collateral because of the damage, and the damage couldn't be fixed without money.
A never-ending circle of agony without any beauty.
FEMA helped as much as they could, a benefit was held for my family with some neighborhood rock stars including Dave Snake Sabo from Skid Row.
All organized by a wonderful angel of a neighbor, aptly named Angel, and a local contractor who donated all the labor, we were able to rebuild the foundation wall but have been stuck in a holding pattern for months.
Today is my Parents 63rd Wedding Anniversary.
I have spent every day since the disaster doing anything and everything I could do, receiving help from local politicians up to Governor Christie himself.
Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad, you really can go home again,sooner, rather than later.(less)
