Last week we introduced Terry Andrewin, Emilio Rivera and Marlon Robinson. They are the men who lived right on the seafront in the Yabra area whose homes were set adrift by the storm surge and wrecked by Richard's raging winds.
They resorted to living in tents when they were told that their homes could not be repaired because they were squatting in the street.
Sounded like another case of the hurricane blues, but today when we visited the tent trio - instead of shivering form the cold front, we found them packing up and moving out. Here's more:…
Today in the tent colony, only a dog was chilling out as the tarpaulin was pulled back - and the owners were dismantling these makeshift structures that had served them for eight nights.
Emilio Rivera, living in a tent
"Well right now the man gave me $300 to rent a room until he find a spot to relocate and to build a house for us."
Victim of Hurricane Richard
"Well the quicker he can locate us to somewhere the better it will be for us because we are not really convenient at the place where we are staying."
And while they are expecting a new lot and a new home - they know it won't be on the seafront like this one
Victim of Hurricane Richard
"If we can get the papers for the land and the house it will be much more better than to live anywhere else because you own that right."
Emilio Rivera, living in a tent
"The main thing is our own house like how we were living first like normal, to have our own things in our house, we know we don't have that again so like how Boots is helping and looking out for us hopefully the man go all the way."
And so today as they took down these iconic tents - they say nine days after the storm, they are doing ok
Jules Vasquez
"But for the time being you all are level off?"
Terry Andrewin, living in a tent
"We are all right for right now."
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