Hey Chucklenuts, while you're in that part of the world, why not visit these trailer homes and take some really deep breaths?
"WASHINGTON — About a year after she moved into a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer, Teresa Coggins, a diabetic, lapsed into a coma. When she woke up in an Ocean Springs, Miss., hospital eight days later, she blamed the trailer she'd been living in.
Coggins, 48, is one of thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims who moved into FEMA trailers after Hurricane Katrina struck Aug. 29, 2005. FEMA spent nearly $1.8 billion buying about 120,000 trailers and millions more maintaining them. Once storm victims began moving out of the trailers, FEMA had no use for them. But now the agency can't reuse, sell or even give the trailers away because of complaints they emit hazardous levels of formaldehyde.
Coggins, who began living in her trailer in February 2006, is bitter not just about her $100,000 hospital bill but also about what she described as FEMA's lack of response when she asked that her trailer be tested.
"I could have died and nobody would know it was formaldehyde," Coggins said.
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FEMA has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to come up with a plan to test the trailers for formaldehyde.
But more than 15 months after the Sierra Club found excessive levels of formaldehyde in trailers on the Gulf Coast, the federal government has yet to begin testing any of the thousands of trailers that still house victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita...** Be sure to read the part about the government auctioning off 10,000 of these toxic tin cans. :grr:
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070828/NEWS01/708280317