Nix Bits

That Insurance companies have been playing games with claims on the Gulf Coast is fairly well known and widely reported. Of course this is making rebuilding a real challenge. And if you’re trying to buy a house, obtaining homeowner’s insurance is also proving difficult and expensive. Private insurers may be writing one day and not […]

Or that this “part of the world”, is, you know, right next to that big ole state he used to be Governor of. Oyster dissects president Bush’s recent speaches on the Gulf Coast, noting just how often he refers to the region as “that part of the world”. This is one of the things that […]

Has it really only been one year? It feels a whole lot longer. It’s been a particularly rough weekend, but today doesn’t seem like the day to complain or to rant. Today is the day to count off some blessings. Jennifer and I are alive and we have one another. We will be celebrating our […]

Much as we might want to get away from it, we simply can’t. The onslaught of documentaries and news overviews has begun. And so my wife and I sit down and watch this stuff if for no other reason than to see what the rest of the U.S. is seeing. Our hope is that with […]

Monday and Tuesday night, Jennifer and I sat down to watch Spike Lee’s documentary, When The Levees Broke, on HBO. We watched it through the eyes of locals who are living through the experience. The quick story is is that the it was excellent and well worth watching for its four hour time frame. It […]

Per this SFgate interview and based on the first two hours that I’ve seen so far, I think Spike gets it pretty much right: Do you think the errors and mismanagement in New Orleans have been adequately redressed?If it was up to me, somebody’d be in prison. But it’s not up to me. Who? Give […]

Over at Wet Bank Guide, Markus has an excellent post concerning the rising storm with the insurance industry. In the face of record profits, insurers are scrambling to pull out of Louisiana and Mississippi just as they did in Florida after the 2004 hurricanes. The state governments will do what they can, but utlimately fixing […]

Last night on WWL, Phil Capo did an action report on a blind St Bernard Parish woman and her husband who had been living in the garage of their gutted home. They couldn’t get FEMA to deliver a trailer. So parish president Junior Rodriguez went and pulled a trailer from another house where it was […]

Yep. This handy flowchart explains everything you need to know about the recovery process. Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans » The Recovery Process Explained. Really funny. enjoy! He forgot to include one important group at the bottom running away with our dollars — the insurance companies.

There is an interesting and thought-provoking piece over at TPMCafe by Boyd Blundell about New Orleanians perception of their place in America. It brought to mind a discussion I had recently regarding whether or not the federal government has a moral obligation to the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast at large. This […]