Hundreds of volunteers from BayCounty and other areas impacted by HurricaneMichael have made their way or will make their way to SouthwestFlorida to offer what assistance and advice they can in hopes of helping their neighbors avoid those same mistakes.
to enrich themselves following the storm. Court documents filed by FBI agent Lawrence Borghini offer evidence that illegal activity extended even further than what is thus far being prosecuted.
Greenleaf took advantage of a flawed bidding process to obtain a lucrative contract to work for Lynn Haven before Michael. ECS was given an emergency contract by the city after the storm. Florida to offer what assistance and advice they can in hopes of helping their neighbors avoid those same mistakes.Bay County Deputy County Administrator Joel Schubert."Those guys just got punched in the mouth. This isn't about recovery for most people down there right now."
"Nobody within a municipality or jurisdiction should tell the hauler where to go with the debris," he said."You go to the closest pit." It's a saga Lucas knows well. She was in New Orleans in 2005 lending a voice to those in the impoverished Lower 9th Ward whose suffering went largely ignored following Hurricane Katrina.
Lucas said homes in many Bay County communities had passed from a deceased family member to their children, but that documentation didn't exist to meet FEMA's strict guidelines for providing proof of home ownership. While emergency officials regularly warn residents to prepare for a week without power or water following a hurricane, her clients are already living day to day.
She's working now to energize pastors and their churches to serve as"resilience hubs" in lower income communities.FEMA trailers long time coming, slow to leavewas acute. Hurricane Michael damaged an estimated 60,000 homes in 2018 and left thousands without a roof over their heads In April 2019, six months after the storm, Panama City City Manager Mark McQueen reported to city commissioners that city staff had sought to acquire FEMA trailers that had either been left vacant at the county fairgrounds, where community housing had been created, or sitting empty at a staging area in Marianna waiting to be deployed.
Once the county and cities impacted by Hurricane Michael finally got the temporary trailers in place, officials couldn't, it seemed, get rid of them. In September of 2021, Guy Pettis, president of the Central Panhandle Fair of Bay County, announced that the fair, held annually at the fairgrounds facility, had been postponed for the third straight year.
Bay County crews jumped in to expedite this process and ended up teaming with FEMA to clear"a lot of sites" and allow residents at least creature comforts as they sought to rebuild their lives.
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