I got them after I went grocery
shopping.
Me being disabled, I'm disabled,
like legally disabled.
I usually walk with a cane and a
walker.
I had to go down to the
building down here
around the corner on, but I
think 68th or something like that.
Okay, so let me ask you just a
couple questions.
So tell me about the
the flood damage extent.
How bad was the damage?
It was extremely bad.
I know the water in
the back, it was rising
like in a creek. It was rising
extremely high and
it was just, it's really bad.
We lost groceries, we lost
a lot of things and then we
try to throw out the trash.
But we can't even throw out our
trash because we got garbage man
won't even come down here no more.
It's like a ducked off block and
don't nobody have problems
around here.
You know, one from the little storm,
if the storm wouldn't have came, we
probably wouldn't even seen nobody.
You know? It's quiet around here.
Homeowners for the most down the
block.
And everybody, like right
here, it's like
basically family-oriented.
Everybody's cool. So it's been
raining.
Since the
big flood.
What are your thoughts when it
starts raining again?
Hope it don't flood again.
Hope that we do get help from
the first flood and don't just leave
us hanging like this.
You know what I'm saying?
It's crazy that we gotta get
left hanging. I'm 49 years old.
I've never seen that much trash
in my life. I've ever seen that many
storming in my live.
You know I'm sayin'?
Except for Hurricane Katrina and
that's where my people from.
But it's bad
and we still dealing with things
around here.
All around this entire neighborhood,
this entire neighborhood.
Even like the little garbage out,
I mean, people bringing out all this
stuff that got ruined and so we
never had this much trash on our
block like from neighbors bringing
out their stuff from getting
destroyed from the flood to
the garbage can
getting overflowed with garbage now
the garbage man don't want even come
down the street and then
you can tell you go from house all
the way down the streets and you
just see something happen to
somebody from that flood so
we just how to deal with it
and do the most of it as we can.
As a community.
Have you applied for any assistance
or help from government?
What's that like?
They're slow as ever,
they're slow, as ever.
I heard my daughter just got her
stamps back cuz our fool stamps,
our fool got damaged from the flood.
So at the same time when
I go down around
the corner and let these people know
that, hey, I don't got no more
stamps. I'm disabled, I need help.
And they said, well, it's gonna take
time. It's gonna to take time, don't
fill out the paper if you did the
thing over the phone.
Like when it happened,
my fiance, she did it over the
phones.
And she did everything what she's
supposed to do.
And to this day, there's still no
help.
And I got my stamps on the 8th and
the flood happened like on the 9th
or 10th.
So, so I called
it the worst.
And it's sad cause nobody won't come
down here and help us like,
we even got.
We've got lead in
our pipes. They tell us don't drink
the water.
Don't drink. It's just messed up
over here now.
Like the plumbing, including
with the storm,
and all that mixed together,
it's bad.
It is extremely bad.
Well, thank you so much for your
time.
And last name for me?
T-Y-R-O-N-E R-O
B-E-R T-S Tyrone Roberts.
Thank you so much again.
Thank you, so much. You, too.