Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Three Years Waiting for Home Elevation Grants

We elevated our home in October of 2007. You can actually see it go up up up in this video:


My government, as part of a Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), claimed they would reimburse us for the costs. It cost a lot, about $90K. But the thinking is that it wouldn't flood again and thus would potentially save the tax payers hard-earned money in the long run.

That was three years ago. We got reimbursed about half of the costs in May of 2009. We're still waiting for the rest.

2 comments:

David said...

Your video is blocked.

Michael Homan said...

Leadbelly's peops didn't like us using his song, so we revised it. I put up the original because I thought it was unblocked.