October 7, 2008
Hi,
I fled to Austin with my little boy before Ike, then returned on Saturday, Sept 27. It was late afternoon around 3PM when I reached our apartment on 417 church street. My husband was also with me. The apartment was standing, the roof appeared good. We went to our unit on the upstairs. A notice was on the door. It was dated Sept23, 2008 and said- "Your unit is severely damaged. Your lease with us has been terminated, you have 5 days from today to vacate or we will remove all the things."
We went inside, the unit was not damaged at all. The fridge was yucky with molds inside. All the things were as it is. On Sept 23, I called my apartment, my number worked and reached the voice mail. So I figured out there was power in my unit. I tried again after one hour, the phone rang and the voicemail did not work. I was puzzled.
So this is what happened, the apartment owners, had turned oof the power later, so people would be forced to go out. I wonder why they did this- for insurance or FEMA assistance? I myself registered with FEMA, but unable to contact them and neither my registration is showing in their system after 10 days.
Anyway, we had no place to go, we decided to go to houston and vacate our apartment on Sunday, the next day. On Sept 28, we entered again, I was surprised to see the door had two locks, while I had used only one lock the previous day. Then we found lot of things scattered and the closet was open. Later we discovered things were stolen from our unit. The house was not broken, so the thief enterd through the main door, he had the key. The following items were stolen
A canon digital camcorder
A minolta flash camera- with all our caseetes, our dear
little boy's birthday pictures and videos gone
A set of red screw drivers
A flash light
4 wrist watches
I called the police and made a complaint at about 7.30pm on sunday Sept28- 417 church street , carriage house apartments, unit 40. I heard some of the neighbors had items stolen too.
I called the owner few days back- she sounded rude, she told me got to the police. Well, whatever are they doing to the apartment complex. Hurricane Ike was not bad but post-Ike has been a disaster for us
If I find the thief, if the police helps me find, I will pardon him, let him have all the stuff- except please request him to return my child's picture tapes and films
Sincerely,
bhagavathi ramasubramanian
Temporary place in houston
