Alabama town hit by tornadoes bans FEMA trailers.

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Ala. town hit by tornadoes bans FEMA trailers

By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Jay Reeves, Associated Press – Sun May 29, 7:40 pm ET
CORDOVA, Ala. – James Ruston's house was knocked off its foundation by tornadoes that barreled through town last month and is still uninhabitable. He thought help had finally arrived when a truck pulled up to his property with a mobile home from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Then he got the call: Single-wide mobile homes, like the FEMA one, are illegal in the city of Cordova.

The city's refusal to let homeless residents occupy temporary housing provided by FEMA has sparked outrage in this central Alabama town of 2,000, with angry citizens filling a meeting last week and circulating petitions to remove the man many blame for the decision, Mayor Jack Scott.

Ruston and many others view the city's decision as heartless, a sign that leaders don't care that some people are barely surviving in the rubble of a blue-collar town.

"People have to live somewhere. What's it matter if it's in a trailer?" asked Felicia Boston, standing on the debris-strewn lot where a friend has lived in a tent since a tornado destroyed his home on April 27.

Scott has heard all the complaints, and he isn't apologizing. He said he doesn't want run-down mobile homes parked all over town years from now.

"I don't feel guilty," he said. "I can look anyone in the eye."

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[valerief]

1. What an asshole. nt

[janet118]

2. What is it about elected officials . . .

With the word "Scott" in their name?

Gov. Rick Scott
Sen. Scott Brown
Gov. Scott Walker

. . . and now, Mayor Jack Scott.

Just sayin'

[TheDebbieDee]

3. When I read the headline, I assumed that the FEMA trailers

were banned because they were toxic like the FEMA trailers in Louisiana.

But this a$$hole banned the trailers because they MIGHT be eyesores in the future?

Any building could be an eyesore in the future!

[pepperbear]

4. something to campaign against come election year.

[Viking 1]

5. Looks like Scotty is a Beckerhead

Moron!

[krispos42]

6. They should line the city border with a line of FEMA trailers

So the entire town is surrounded by single-wide trailers that are inches past the city council's jurisdiction.

[Jamastiene]

8. I like that idea. n/t

[krispos42]

9. And paint them gaudy, clashing colors with "Regulate THIS" spelled out on the side facing town

:evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

10. And get people to donate pink flamingos to put on top of them too.

:evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

7. I was outraged when I read about that.

Notice the local City Hall, police department, and a bank are using trailers just like the ones they ban for the rest of the citizens.

The citizens of that community deserve way better than that. That mayor is an asshole.