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Sonya Black and her family live in an RV behind their house. They boil water for cooking and bathing. Their power comes from drop cords connected to a breaker box on a specially installed power pole in their backyard.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sonya Black and her family have lived in an RV since 2019. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Black and her family of five lived in a hotel for eight months after Hurricane Florence. When that became infeasible financially and logistically, the family moved into an RV that friends donated to them. They have been living there ever since. \u201cWe were preparing to go to a homeless shelter because we ran out of money,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s like camping. We\u2019re living out of suitcases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to see what we can do to get things moving ahead,\u201d Rep. Phil Shepard said as he listened to the Blacks\u2019 experience in the storm and since. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s just people realizing that people are watching what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Blacks had evacuated before the storm, but its evidence was abundant. Sonya said, \u201cWe came back two weeks later, and everything had already mildewed and molded over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sonya and her husband together described the damage from the storm. \u201cIt rained hard for a complete week,\u201d she said. \u201cThe shingles never blew off, but the rain went under the shingles, saturated everything inside.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt never broke the shingles; they laid back down,\u201d her husband James added. \u201cThere was no physical or visual damage you could see to the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen the ceilings fell,\u201d Sonya continued. \u201cCeilings fell in the sewing\/craft room, the living room, and the kitchen. The den had gotten wet from where the water had permeated through, and it flooded five feet in the basement. The sump pump went out because the power went out. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They tore down walls themselves and hired a rapid-response disaster company to dry out the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A contractor they hired to do repairs took the money and left the house unfinished. The Blacks learned that the contractors were fraudulent, but they ultimately decided not to sue. Instead, Sonya and James started a GoFundMe page to replace the insulation and the floors in their home and simultaneously applied to the ReBuild NC program. Once approved, they were told they had to stop working on their home. Now, almost three years later, they are still waiting for their repair work to go to bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The (now) six members of the family are doing what they can to manage until work begins on their home and they are eligible for Temporary Relocation Assistance. Two sons live with Sonya and James in the RV, and one of them took a job at Chick-fil-A to help with finances. Their daughter and grandson are living in Virginia because there\u2019s no room in the RV. Sonya is operating her soap-making business out of a shed on their property. \u201cIt\u2019s half the size of the basement I used to work in,\u201d she said. \u201cPlus, I lost the room in the house I used as a store.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sonya is clearly exasperated. \u201cThere needs to be better organization when it comes to ReBuild NC,\u201d she said. \u201cWe kept calling, and we would only get \u2018waiting on approval.\u2019 Give me something better than that. What are you waiting on? It\u2019s things like that that have us frustrated and have lost trust because we\u2019re a family of six doing everything that we can, and it\u2019s hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added: \u201cI\u2019m ready for it to be over. All we\u2019re waiting on is sheetrock. Why is it taking so long? They have floors and materials from their GoFundMe, all we need is help to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There needs to be better organization <\/p>

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Sonya Black and her family live in an RV behind their house. They boil water for cooking and bathing. Their power comes from drop cords connected to a breaker box on a specially installed power pole in their backyard. Black and her family of five lived in a hotel for eight months after Hurricane Florence. 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