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Originally Posted by fintstone
Imagine that this is your house and your car (photos from my hometown). You are lucky to be alive. You had almost no money and a minimum wage job....and neither now. You have a small mortgage and a small car payment that you still owe on (property taxes were just due and required on the value of the property last Jan). Your employer is defunct. Insurance will not allow a claim as your damage was flood related. FEMA has rejected your claims (they came late and are leaving early). There were few rentals in the area even before the flooding and they were all expensive and require large fees to move in. Your family is sheltering in a small motel room in a city about 30 miles from where you lived. It is cold and wet (fresh snow) and temps are in the teens. There are no jobs (that you qualify for) and you have a high school education or less and no real experience ither than service work. You are in a city that is somewhat spread out and where there is no real public transportation to where the few possible jobs (and grocery stores) are not within walking distance of either your destroyed rural home (where you could primitive camp) or your motel room and your vehicle was destroyed. You can't buy another because you are still making payments on the one the storm destroyed. You are too old (or otherwise not qualified to join he military). Most of your extended family, friends, and neighbors lived nearby and are in the same situation as you and really cannot help. What do you do?
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Some people risk their lives hiking a thousand miles through dangerous, unfamiliar territory while being preyed on by thieves, rapists, and kidnappers in order to find a better life. We call
them criminals.