{"id":215,"date":"2008-03-30T19:17:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T00:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-03-30T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T00:17:04","slug":"chalk-another-house-up-to-katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/30\/chalk-another-house-up-to-katrina\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalk another house up to Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2005 Hurricane Katrina put four feet of water in our neighbor&#8217;s house, owned by Monica&#8217;s sister. The house has since been demolished.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can just make out our house in the upper left of the picture, about 250 feet from where I <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:12px;padding-top:7px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/BILDER\/katrina16.jpg\" title=\"missing house in Mobile\" alt=\"missing house in Mobile\" height=\"206\" width=\"275\" \/> was standing when I took this photo. The empty area right in front of me &ndash; in the front of the picture &ndash; is where the house stood. It was a small wooden frame house with 3 bedrooms. The back porch was just in front of the azalea bushes. FEMA claimed that the house could be &quot;repaired&quot; and paid a settlement. However, after the water receded the flooring of the house and all the interior walls were warped, so the whole house needed to be redone. Monica&#8217;s sister just wrote it off and had the house torn down last summer. They own the property &ndash; well, actually the bank still does until they finish paying off the mortgage. FEMA&#8217;s share &quot;kicks in&quot; when they have the mortgage paid off down to the amount that FEMA gave as a settlement. They want to build another house somewhere on this spot or nearby, but a little higher off the ground than the old house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2005 Hurricane Katrina put four feet of water in our neighbor&#8217;s house, owned by Monica&#8217;s sister. The house has since been demolished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katrina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}