Your officemate has been lucky. Not alot of people got things taken care of like that. It took me 8 months to get a fema trailer. This person says this and that person says something else. And fema taking me off the waiting list 3 times didnt help. Had to sign up again and be at the bottom all over. I fianlly did get my trailer, then got sick living in it. lol

You gotta have your mom call the St. Bernard Project.
This is the website and it lists a phone number. I know its only for St. Bernard, but still have her call. They will help her anyway they can. The people associated with this organization do wonders.
http://www.stbernardproject.org/v158/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=43

This is Camp Hope. Have her call them to. Volunteers and organizations come in from all over the world and stay here. Its one of the main volunteer camps. She can talk to someone and they can guide her for who to speak too.
http://www.habitat-nola.org/projects/st_bernard.php

I bet your mom would get help.

Yeah the water. St Bernard is pretty much in Lake Borgne and the gulf now. At least we finally after all these years got the MRGO closed to any more traffic. They are suppose to build some barriers in the MRGO in a few different places. Its suppose to keep the water from the outlet going into that cone and into the industrail canal. This way it will only flood St. Bernard and the 9th again. But New Orleans wont get any water. At least thats what they say. Doesnt help us any, but does others.

Yeah, i know. 'da Parish just ain't 'da Parish no more. It ain't 'dere no more. Every single family has been broken up its no longer got the 'home' feeling.

I think if i had at least one of my friends still here i'd feel a little better, but it just didnt work out that way. They had to do what they had to do.

I'm not sure what i'm goig to do in the future, but for now i'm stuck. Don't hate me for saying this, but i honestly wish another storm would come and wipe St. Bernard out. I am the only one here for my parents and i feel obligated to stay with them since they are up in age. If we get it again, there wont be a st Bernard to come home to. So moving for sure would be in the picture and i could get them out in Picayune near there friends.

I'm going to Florida to see a friend in October. My first real trip out of the da parish since the storm. Iv'e contacted two video editing houses where she lives and they've shown interest in me. Sent a reel to one of them. Don't know, but i might just stay there. But i would need a job and this anxiety has to go way way lower to hold a job. But video editing, being a passion of mine, I think it wouldnt be so hard. Just a thought.

Thanks so much Dinah. Its great talking to someone with the connection to home here.

hugs
chalmette