• FLOODS of '08 VIDEO
Fema officials now say some flood relief is being rejected. Fourteen fema homes sit empty here at marion village mobile home park. Fema officials say they're having a hard time finding flood victims who are interested in the homes.
Campers at the Hawkeye Down's say about 75 percent of them are flood victims. Flood victims who are not interested in a fema home.
Albert Rammelsberg is one flood victim who was offered a FEMA mobile home but turned it down, "At that time we made up our mind we were going to move down to St. Louis, so we turned it down."
SO Rammelsberg and his family are sleeping in a camper until the big move, saving up money to get out of dodge. And Remmelsberg says he's not the only one.
" I went to my bank the other day and he told me they had two to three people a week that just throw their keys on the desk and say that's it. So a lot of people are just giving up and leaving."
Others camping at the Hawkeye Down's say they are in the middle of rebuilding and hope to return home soon, saying there was no need for them to get a FEMA home. Others say most of the available FEMA homes are in Marion, too far away from their work. And then there is a few who say they want a home but for them assistance is out of reach.
"FEMA is fine with giving us a trailer. But it's the trailer courts who wont let us in. Because we've got a past history or criminal record," says Bob Wicher.
Regardless, for everyone, time at the Down's is running out.
The water is being shut off at the camp ground on October 15th and everyone has to have their campers off the Down's grounds by the first of November.
Meanwhile the longer FEMA homes sit vacant, FEMA officials say the more likely the mobile homes are going to be shipped out of Linn County for good.FEMA Assistance Rejected
