Some in Katrina-trashed community still looking for trailers

It has been 11 months since Hurricane Katrina hit and Janice Tambrella still does not have a home. She doesn’t even have a trailer of her own. Tambrella is currently jammed in with 10 other relatives in a single trailer delivered to a luckier relative. Sleeping on the floor, living out of cars surrounded by overgrown grass and storm-felled trees, she sighs, “I need a place to stay.”

Nearly 1,200 St. Bernard Parish families are still waiting to get into trailers that sit locked on their home sites but need utilities or other services; another 400 families waiting for trailers have none at all, FEMA said. St. Bernard Parish President Henry “Junior” Rodriguez is often the one people ask for help. While he doesn’t have the authority to get them trailers, they figure it’s worth asking him since countless calls to the Federal Emergency Management Agency have failed to help. “The trailer situation is ridiculous,” he said.

from the Boston Herald