Jimmy Kendrick – the house has an area of 2300 square feet in Fulton, a small town in Texas.
Kendrick lives in the living room and the kitchen, as in the rest of the house roof leaks and still no electricity. However, the man said that his situation is still relatively good compared to those residents of Fulton, who lost their homes due to hurricane Harvey. Recall, he struck the state more than two months ago.
By the way, Jimmy Kendrick, mayor of Fulton. Now most of the working day he devotes to trying to help those who are homeless.
The mayors of several cities in the Southeast coast of Texas gathered at the state Capitol to talk about the problems of small communities in that time, almost all reconstruction funds sent to Houston.
So, 20 miles South of Fulton, on Mustang Island, the hurricane destroyed more than 75% of homes in the town of Port Aransas. Mayor Charles Buyan argues that the city has no funds to repair the damage.
«Our budget is $ 10 million. The damage from Harvey in the city was $ 43 million – and that’s just what comes to residential houses. Research center caused a damage in 100 million dollars. No need to be a mathematician to understand – we are not doing well,» says Buyan NBC News.
Federal emergency management Agency (FEMA) said that they can’t quickly fix all the damage, and people should have patience, because the recovery could take years.
«43 families from our town are still living in the Motel, dozens of tents,» says Patricio County judge Terry Simpson. «These people have become homeless over night, many have lost their jobs, Yes there are lost everything. It’s not their fault, and now they are asked to fill in millions of forms, and to rush between insurance agencies is wrong.»
Many coast residents say that bureaucratic delays have seriously undermined their mental health.
So, one of the residents of Fulton came to the mayor Kendrick and said he was ready to knock out the Windows the insurance company Windstorm in Austin that they «feel what it’s like to live in such conditions».
