The humble Nasio thought that maybe someone was pulling his leg. This sounds too good to be true.

But this relief is very real, and it may be timely.

After several weeks of camping outside their damaged house, the Nazio family got a trailer to live in, which was a completely unexpected move.

"I heard him say he was going to give us a trailer, and I thought,'Wow, this doesn't sound right,'" Nazio said. "I told my wife and she asked them when they wanted it back... No, I think they want to give it to us and keep it. She did what I said.

"But I called them back and he said he could give it to us within an hour and a half. I never thought about it."

In the past few months, Nazio's story began to be a very familiar story-his Paradis home was destroyed by Hurricane Ida, leaving Nazio, his wife and their three children to find Plan B.

However, this is where their story turned into some unique areas: after returning from evacuating from Texas and learning that their home would be uninhabitable for the foreseeable future, the family decided to live in a tent outside their home Inside, and then found a permanent solution. This is exactly what the Nazis have done since Ida.

As an outdoor enthusiast, Nazio downplayed the harsh conditions and even pointed out that his children viewed their situation as "a large camping trip." But the weather is getting colder and colder, and the attempt to maintain a more stable living arrangement seems to be at a dead end.

"I kind of feel like I'm running away," Nazio said of his trailer application. "We applied... One month later, the Federal Emergency Management Agency stated that the state controlled all this and was no longer in their hands. Then I called the state government and was told that if I did not hear anything before next Tuesday, I can try again. We can’t get any time frame on how long it might take to get the trailer."

One day, Nasio was talking to the pastor of his church-venting as he described it-and talking about the family's uncertain situation. The latter decided to make a few calls, including to several news media, to try to draw some attention to the Nazi situation and get some help at the same time.

FOX 8's Josh Roberson (Josh Roberson) posted on Twitter about the situation that caught the attention of Matt Rookard of the Terrebonne Economic Development Authority (Terrebonne Economic Development Authority). The post contains photos of the homes of the Nazis and their temporary "tent village" living quarters. Rookard's group used their relationship to obtain a trailer for the family, and Nazios moved into the trailer in early November.

"I definitely didn't expect this to happen," Nasio said. "I feel like I ran into a dead end in one dead end after another... which brought me back. I started to lose confidence in humanity a little bit. You are asking for help, just looking for a solution. But they restored it.

"It must be warmer in the trailer. There is also a hot shower, which would be even better."

Before the trailer, there was no short-term arrangement for the tent. The back end of the roof of Nasio's house was completely blown off by Ada. A telephone pole was torn from the ground and placed at the back of the house. The storm moved the house completely from its base.

"It is no longer suitable for living," Nazio said.

When another storm hit after Ada, it caused further damage to the family’s homes and temporary facilities.

"It kind of broke me that night, I won't lie," Nasio said. "I squatted down and prayed, and I asked God,'Please, if we have to live in these tents for many years, okay, but please don't let us lose everything again. I just want my family to be safe.'"

Knowing that a cold front is coming, Nazio used some creativity to collect pallets to create a platform to lift the tent off the ground.

"This is to make it warmer," he said. "We slept on the air cushion in the tent. But the air from the ground made the air in the mattress colder.

"We let it work. Sometimes the weather changes and the weather is terrible. We don't reach the point where we are,'Well, we can't live like this. We haven't gotten too cold to the point where we have to do other things... But that may come."

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