I got them at that one grocery shop. Wow
so
Me being the disabled I'm disabled like legally disabled I usually walk with a cane or walker. I had to go down to the
The building down here around the corner on but
Think 68 something like that
Okay, so let me ask you just a couple questions. So tell me about 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 was really bad. We lost groceries. We lost a lot of things
And then we try to throw out the trash
But you know we can't even throw out our trash because we got guards 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 when it came
We probably wouldn't even see nobody, you know, it's quiet around your home owners for the most down the block and everybody
like right here
It's like
basically family oriented
You're right. So it's been it's been raining since the big flood. Yeah, what are your thoughts when it starts raining again?
Hope it don't flood again
Hope that 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 it's crazy that we got to get left hanging. I'm 49 years old
I've never seen that much trash in my life. I've never seen that much storming in my life
You know I'm saying 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 breaking out all the stuff that got ruined and stuff
We never had this much trash on our block like from neighbors bringing out their stuff and getting destroyed from the flood to the
Garbage can getting overflow with garbage now the garbage man
They want to even come down the street and then you can tell you go from house house all the way down the street
And you just see something happening to somebody from that flood
So we just got a deal with it and do the most as we can as a community
Have you applied for any assistance or help from the government? What's that like?
There's slow as ever
Just slow as ever. I heard my daughter just got her
Her her stance back because our full stance
Our food our damage 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
You know, I'm disabled I need help
And they said well, it's gonna take time. It's gonna take time
Don't fill out the paper if you did the thing over the phone like when it happened
My fiancee she did it over the phone
and she did everything what she's supposed to do and
To this age there's still no help
And I got my stamps on the a's and the flood happened like on the 9th of 10th, so
So I called it the worst
And it's sad because nobody won't come down here and help us like
We've got we've got
Lead in our pipes. They tell us don't drink the water
Don't drink easy to mess up over here now like the other I'd like to plumb it including with the
Storm and all that mixed together
It's bad is extremely bad. Well, thank you so much for your time
Could you spell your first and last name for me T Y R O N E R O B E R T S Tiberon Roberts?
Thank you so much again. Thank you so much. You so good. Take care. All right, appreciate