I frankly can't believe that her neighbors didn't at least find someone amongst them who could help this lady! Did she not TELL anyone she no longer had power? Did NO neighbor ever wonder why there were no lights on at night?
She was probably too embarrassed ... poor thing. People were traumatized and involved for years with their own rebuilding and recovery, if they stayed to deal with it.
Since she was getting some electricity with an extension cord, one of her neighbors almost certainly knew of her situation. It's amazing to me that nobody offered any help over the past 15 years.
I'm sure she was able to get down to the polls and vote for algore though.
That house is worth about 500K, she could have gotten a loan anytime to have put the power on.
Shes just crazy.
I was in Hurricane Andrew. I was stationed @ Homestead AFB (8th Air Wing, which is now closed because of the hurricane. I don't care what people think about a hurricane 15 years ago... I was there, and it was terrifying! It was practically a 30-50 mile wide lawnmower that went east to west for 100 miles across Florida... ironically Homestead AFB was dead center in the eye. I remember that Turkey Point had a crack in it's insulating concrete (Turkey Point was a nuclear reactor about 3 miles southeast of Homestead AFB)... and the only buildings still left stand (on base) were pretty much the dorms (barracks).... but even they were annihilated on the inside.
I have much sympathy for this woman (she was elderly) and I can understand her embarrassment.. living in an upper price range of property (Cutler Ridge)... FEMA screwed us over then... The insurance companies tried in all their power to say that Hurricanes/flooding wasn't in the agreement... and eventually many went bankrupt (goes with the territory, I guess)...
Anyway, I am glad, even after 15 years, she finally got something better ;)