Waveland man says MEMA deadline may leave him homeless - WLOX

09.01.09

By Al Showers - bio | email

WAVELAND, MS (WLOX) - Jimmy Bodden was living in a double-wide trailer in Hancock County before Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home. He received a FEMA trailer and then a Mississippi Cottage. But now, he and his fiancee are being forced to find other living arrangements, since MEMA will be pulling his cottage in a few days. His solution was a fifth wheel RV.

"We got the trailer one day. We felt good. My fiancee and I, the next morning, we had a knock on the door. 'You've got to move it in 30 days,'" Bodden said.

The area where Bodden and his fiancee, Mela Moquie, live no longer allows travel trailers or RVs.

"Since they annexed this area into the city of Waveland, they have changed the codes. They left us high and dry because we have $60,000 of dirt here that we can't use," Moquie said.

According to Waveland building official Brent Anderson, the city allows trailers only in designated mobile home parks. He said Bodden has had three and a half years to rebuild.

Source: WLOX, MS

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