Winding Down:::::::::::::::
The powers that be have staked the end of October for closing up this place. It seems to have gone very smoothly compared to other disasters out here. The City and County are very cooperative and the money is flowing to the people to go ahead and start their lives over.
There is one community named Moade (and probably still spelled wrong) that is west of town that was incorporated into El Paso that is going to dissappear. The folk here do odd things compared to how we would think about owning things in other States. This is called a "Colonias" and is simply a community that sprang up without any regulation at all. None of the buildings are to code (some of the walls for instance are just propped up pallets with dry wall on them.. electricity is often done with expension cords...etc...) FEMA and the state and city/county are excercising 'eminent domian' and are going to condemn this entire neighborhood... I know I am missing some of the details of this transformation but these folk are all going to be offered buyouts... (and the implication is.. they will be forced buyouts if they refuse)... and they are going to turn the neighborhood into a flood plane for relief of future flooding. Things that are challenging here are things like a single mailing address on a street may have five or six 'houses' on it that all get mail from that same box.... it is very much like a foreign country here in some respects. Illegals are mixed with legals.. citizens in the same families with aliens... legal aliens owning property... holy cow what a mess. I have been very impressed though with the group here managing to cut through all that to the core issues and making the money flow and the people are making the best of it.
I am going to be here another week.. then home for ten days.. then back on oct 9th for the duration.. we are going to be breaking all this down starting the 16th for sure when all the application periods and paperwork demands are over... at some point this becomes a logistics building and mission and no one else is allowed.
There is one community named Moade (and probably still spelled wrong) that is west of town that was incorporated into El Paso that is going to dissappear. The folk here do odd things compared to how we would think about owning things in other States. This is called a "Colonias" and is simply a community that sprang up without any regulation at all. None of the buildings are to code (some of the walls for instance are just propped up pallets with dry wall on them.. electricity is often done with expension cords...etc...) FEMA and the state and city/county are excercising 'eminent domian' and are going to condemn this entire neighborhood... I know I am missing some of the details of this transformation but these folk are all going to be offered buyouts... (and the implication is.. they will be forced buyouts if they refuse)... and they are going to turn the neighborhood into a flood plane for relief of future flooding. Things that are challenging here are things like a single mailing address on a street may have five or six 'houses' on it that all get mail from that same box.... it is very much like a foreign country here in some respects. Illegals are mixed with legals.. citizens in the same families with aliens... legal aliens owning property... holy cow what a mess. I have been very impressed though with the group here managing to cut through all that to the core issues and making the money flow and the people are making the best of it.
I am going to be here another week.. then home for ten days.. then back on oct 9th for the duration.. we are going to be breaking all this down starting the 16th for sure when all the application periods and paperwork demands are over... at some point this becomes a logistics building and mission and no one else is allowed.
posted by Steve Morse- Adventures in Disasters at 8:50 AM
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Infestitation?? Hmmmm....makes ya wanna scratch an itch somewhere. Classic.
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