06:15 PM CDT on Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Bill Capo / WWL-TV Action Reporter

Behind Charlene Condoll’s Upper 9^th Ward gutted home, her van sits in the driveway. It’s currently where she, her common law husband, and two teenage children say they have been living since December, when FEMA called and said to come back to New Orleans because their trailer was ready.

The trailer has yet to arrive.

“Been like hell, like a nightmare. It’s just not right to call people back to New Orleans, and don’t give them a place to stay. Tell them to come here, and you got a trailer, but when you get here, its nothing here,” said Condoll.

If they need to go to the bathroom, they go inside of their gutted house.

They said FEMA has produced no action.

"Every time I call, it's a different story, they just hanging up on me,” said Condoll.

Across town, Keith Chaney said FEMA forced him out of his government paid hotel room in the beginning of January, even though he could not get the keys to the trailer he requested. Chaney has been living in his car since, showering at the homes of friends and neighbors.

"It's hell sleeping in a car, because guess what, I have to lay this down, move this over, make my makeshift. I can't run any air, because carbon monoxide will kill you. The mosquitoes, one thing I learned about New Orleans, you got to have some spray,” said Chaney.

Chaney’s trailer was ready, except for the power meter.

"I've called Entergy on a regular basis; I called Shaw Group on a regular basis. Everyone is pointing fingers, FEMA tells me call Entergy, Entergy tell me call, this is very disheartening to be in America to live like this here,” said Chaney.

Chaney said he called the Action Line because the heat was making it unbearable to live in his car.

"I want to cry, but I prayed last night, and you called today, so God, there is a God in heaven,” he said.

Chaney and Condoll were among five people who called the Action Line to report they had become homeless while waiting for their FEMA trailers.

A spokeswoman for the agency promised she would look into the matters.

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