"Good Neighbors," Indeed.

Just as I was posting the previous, I got a call from my Good Neighbors at State Farm. Evidently when the nice new adjuster confirmed that there was more damage from wind and rain than had been previously recorded, he then suggested that maybe there wasn't as much flood damage to the house as they had already paid us for. So they CANCELLED PAYMENT on our check, and want to send out another adjuster to review the flood claim.

This is strictly punitive because we insisted on the second adjuster and have pursued the errors and omissions claim. I have contractors estimates to show that the flood damage is at least $100K more than the settlement in question. Long and short, I'll jump through their hoops, they can be on fire for all I care.

We're not trying to get anything that wasn't covered under the policies our agent's representative told us we had. We just want to fix our damn house, or at least get out of the mortgage.

Meanwhile, we still don't have trailer keys. We found out that they were being held until we got a temporary acccount from the electric company. The electric company tells us we can't set up an account until we give them a permit number. The guy that hooked the thing up says that the city was supposed to come inspect the trailer, issue the permit, and give it to Entergy. Also, the sewer pipe is connected to the storm drain, so they have to fix that before we could be allowed to take occupancy. I predict a trip to City Hall, to wait in line at Safety and Permits, in the future.

YOUR tax dollars at work friends. While they're passing the buck from office to office, the trailer FEMA paid $60,000 for is sitting useless in my driveway. Fair market value for such a trailer is about $20K, by the way. Meanwhile FEMA is supposed to be reimbursing our rent payments until the trailer can be occupied.

I need a drink. STAT.