Quoted from biaggio

The junction is doomed!!!!! The people say it will never be the same, it was in rough shape before and  is just going to fall apart now....terrible terrible terrible....Hope the smell goes away and no one ends up sick. FEMA isn't going to savethe day...

it's not doomed....it will be different.....and OF COURSE THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T SAVE THE DAY...people have the SAVING in themselves....

being eligible for the help doesn't make it easy.....folks cant wait for the SLOW government machine....move on....you can....dont let them tell you...'Waite, waite, waite for it, we're coming.'.....no wonder the economy is stagnation...so we
have become stagnated.....

humans have SURVIVAL in them.....the system isn't our 'godhead'......

In this case the system is the only thing that will save the junction. Those people have NO chance without it's assistance. No MONEY......NO Cleanup....they have no money!!!!! They need to be led by the hand, they dont know any better and the town can't let it become worse than it was before...cause it was bad. I can't believe no one is concerned with the health issues..

  

I cant imagine and I wont pretend to....but, there is one thing I am sure of.....people have survival, tenacity and will........will it be the same for them....no.....adaptation has served us well over these millenia....even our structures and
systems come up very very short of keeping us......we have improved them...but, one thing we dont have to improve on, we just need to let it live is our human spirit......the health issues....if folks feel like it is unsafe, it probably is...
dont wait for the government 'beef recall' to make yourself safe....dont deny the feeling of being unsafe....follow it.....

The mud and water during the flood was toxic, filled with sewage, manure, oil, and gas and just the smell alone has made people sick.

Just like war. People will survive it.

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FEMA help or not, most flood victims will never be the same

    Re Sept. 15 Carl Strock column, “The lingering disaster of Schoharie fl ood”: Many thanks to Carl Strock for visiting our flood-ruined community and giving some insight into the horror of it all.
    I am one of the handful of village residents fortunate enough to have been spared, but my church, my friends and neighbors were not so fortunate. My daughter’s home was flooded several inches into the second story. Most of the village has no power (for safety reasons), no one can live in their homes, nor will they be able to for months. Houses need to be gutted and dried out before rebuilding can start. The enormity of the devastation is hard to grasp.
    As Mr. Strock mentioned, many people do not have flood insurance. Yet think of the cost to replace household appliances and goods, not to mention building materials to restore structures. I don’t have a solution — it just seems so overwhelming.
    I did do some math with the FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] figures given in the Sept. 15 Gazette, and I think the money, if equally distributed, would come to [approximately] $1,760 per request (dividing $38,166,518 by the 21,686 statewide registrations for FEMA assistance). That barely scratches the surface. Plus I’m hearing that some folks are getting $20,000-plus and $30,000, so that would seem to say that some will get nothing.
    The voice of reason tells me that our government can’t rescue all the many people affected by natural disasters in our country this year, but I do have great empathy for those who have, in effect, lost everything. The ripple effect on our schools and local governments will be severe as well when taxes come due.
    Our village will never be the same, but we are resilient. We have been so blessed by many volunteers, many of whom are strangers to us, who have labored in the muck alongside us and who have fed and clothed us and let us use their showers to help us feel clean again.
    I ask those of you who, a bit like me, are going about their “normal” lives, to say a little prayer for all your neighbors who are dealing with a life-changing event. Having been a front-row spectator to this will definitely make us more aware of other folks when calamities arise.

    ETHEL ROBINSON
    Schoharie

http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01102&AppName=1

there's always the Amish way.....

That is a PERFECT picture for ANY government party or agency......either way sh!t happens and hearing  the phrase "Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help." certainly WILL NOT bring back CLOSE to what
a person had...it's always the 'atleast this/atleast that' conversation and then it turns into the 'god is watching over me/I am blessed' blah blah blah.......

it's IN US....

BTW...even without a flood, ol' granny on the roof feels like that on a normal, even in a nursing home