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I was up late last night and happened to catch a re-airing of CNN Presents: Saving My Town: The Fight for Bay St. Louis. This is CNN's Kathleen Koch's story about coming to her hometown of Bay St. Louis right after Katrina, and follows the residents' stories from the beginning to the present. It made me sick to hear some of the stories. It's coming on again tonight. I highly recommend watching this.

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I saw this in the HA Today.. The host is a graduate of USM and worked for WLOX TV.. IT comes on tonight at 7pm & 10 pm

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If you can, watch it. I had just gotten in bed and saw it on at 1:00 am, kept me wide awake until 2:00 am. Well worth it.

[Lylabean]

I think I had caught some of this special before...but will catch it tonight.

Thanks for the heads up. I noticed PBS has some Katrina show on today...just saw it listed in the tv guide for today and didn't watch it.

Lynn

[geezerjoe]

CNN program MAKE JOE MAD!

Seriously, I had to stop watching when the insurance woman started speaking political-speak where they answer a question with a diversion that doesn't amount to anything worthwhile. I can't afford to have an aneurism.

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How about the adjuster that told the doctor's wife he was having a bad day because he had to share a motel room with another adjuster and not to bother him anymore because he wasn't her adjuster? I would have climbed through that telephone and smacked him.

I didn't realize there was a 6-hour period between when they started getting the sustained winds and when the storm surge hit. Makes a BIG difference.

How the insurance industry can sleep at night, I don't understand. Hopefully the state's lawsuit against the insurance companies will help the people get what they should.

[Lylabean]

I hadn't seen this one before...

and Nationwide insurance is the one with the commercial where the husband and wife's house is destroyed and the agent tells them we'll get through this together.

I'm not for suing over everything..but glad to see this lawsuit against the insurance companies!!

[Conveyor Belt]

I think the Nationwide commercial is a tornado, not a hurricane.

[geezerjoe]

Yeah but it was also Nationwide who wouldn't give one of the couples featured in the news article any help with the couple's claim stating that there was no wind damage to the home, it was all flooding. Each of the homes to either side of that couple's home did have wind damage, but theirs was obviously skipped by the 125mph winds for 2 hours until the flood came?!? :smt011

My best friend's home was flooded during the storm and did have a little wind damage. When my friend was buying insurance he asked about flood insurace, and the agent told him "You really don't need flood insurance. As long as there's a point of entrance for the water such as a hole in the roof or a broken window (which he both had) then storm insurance covers the damage". So they didn't by flood insurance. Guess what? The agent lied. They DID get their claim for the wind damage but the flooding was completely uncovered. EVERYTHING they owned including their vehicles was either damaged or destroyed.

When adjusters won't even come to your house to inspect the damage and then tell you you were flooded I get ticked. What happens if your house is blown down and then flooded? Well if your insurance company is Nationwide (and many of these other companies) too bad, they will tell you that were flooded and they don't do flood insurance.

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My basic point is this, the Nationwide commecial is selling "We care. We really care", when the truth of the matter is "They couldn't care less".

[Conveyor Belt]

Anyone who thinks insurance comapnies "care" about anyone but themselves is misguided, at best. It's all fun and games, joking about insurnase not wanting to pay out claims, until it's your turn. They're in the business to make money, and giving it away is not on thier to-do list.

Didn't the government give grants up to $250,000 for people who's homes were not in the flood plain that got flooded?

[Lylabean]

Hurricane..tornado..it doesn't matter..the commercial portrays Nationwide as a caring company who will help their policy holders. They should be charged with false advertising. When you put a product(their caring staff) on TV and lie about what it does you should be punished.

Just like the guy said in the special last night "Nationwide is NOT on our side."