Well, I did get the checks but the house check is not cashable or depositable due to the insurance company never removing the mortgage company's name from the policy. When I mortgaged the house to upgrade it, I had to fully insure the house and since it had a lien on it, the insurance was also with the mortgage company's name.
The mortgage was sold twice and I paid it off last year after my mother passed away and left us some money. I spent my inheritance on paying off the house and moving into my new home and buying everything I needed for my business. In other words, I invested the money. Well, most of it. I did buy a lot of sexy undies. 
The original mortgage company is no longer in business. So I can't get them to sign it. So, right now I am waiting for the loan company I paid off on to send me the letter of satisfaction of mortgage so I can send it to the insurance company. They already sent me one but they had the wrong dates on it so I requested a corrected copy. When I send the letter to the insurance company, then they will stop payment on the house check and send me a new one.
Horror stories
A friend of mine that lives in Galveston called me the other day and told me some horror stories about Bolivar where my beach house used to stand. She told me about two old ladies on Bolivar where I used to live. They stayed there during the hurricane. They stayed awake all night in a couple feet of water. Remember, they are around 6+ feet off the ground on the stilts yet there was still water inside the house.  Omg!
They took turns holding this one window down that the storm surge kept sucking open and the suction from the surging waters would drag them towards the window. They had to hold it closed to keep from being sucked out of the house.
*shudder* Things from inside the house kept being sucked out of the house that would fit thru the window. Omg, horrible!
I thank GOD I am no longer living there. 200 people seemed to have thought that the big store there was safe to stay in. It was rebuilt pretty securely yet it was on the ground. When they searched the peninsula, they found 200 drowned people inside it.
When the rescue people went house to house in Bolivar, they found cows and horses on people's decks 6-10 off the ground. That was not so bad til one rescuer almost was injured when he found a live alligator inside one home. Remember, MOST homes there were on pilings or stilts anywhere from 6-10 feet high. The newer ones were 14-19 feet high due to the new building codes. So this means the water from the storm surge was 6-10 feet deep at LEAST if not deeper....all over the lower end of the peninsula.
The water was at least 6-10 or more feet deep with the power of the hurricane behind it. This means the water was wild water with huge force behind it. In Galveston which had a 17 ft seawall, the water was running 3-10 ft deep on the island. Bolivar where I used to live had no seawall. In all likelihood, it was deeper than 10 feet.
They have cadaver dogs still searching the piles of debris in Bolivar looking for people's bodies. There are still people missing. Some of those people were likely swept out to sea. The debris from the storm is being washed up all the way in Corpus Christi, Tx and all the way upstream in states on the Mississippi River so I have been informed. Even tho the storm was a category two, they say it was as big as a category 5 storm.
If that hurricane had made it to be a cat 5, Galveston would have been wiped out. It would be as damaged as Bolivar if not worse. According to my friend, people are closing up shops in Galveston and moving permanently. Smart people! Many people are moving their homes from Galveston as well. After Rita happened, the smartest people had already made their plans to move from the coast.  I got my ass out of there as fast as I could!  I LOVE Conroe!
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daisy315
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Oct 24 @ 10:35PM
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My friend Juana is still trying to find her foster host that brought her to Houston.. she lost his phone number and doesn't know how to continue looking.
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butterfly943
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Oct 24 @ 10:54PM
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So your not the storm catcher?  now your the storm runner  just get the heck outta there 
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Merchitown
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Oct 24 @ 11:01PM
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OH my Lord.....I can't imagine the horror....
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luvmycats
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Oct 25 @ 12:14AM
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I hope you get your insurance check straighened out without too much trouble.
I feel so bad for those folks. It sounds like those ladies sure had a time of it, but they are still alive. 
 I wanna move. Duvvy says our part of Tampa is pretty safe. NOT safe enough for me. A big one comes this way, me and the critters are outta here! Just hope I can talk him into coming with us. Men can be so hard headed sometimes. 
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gunn12fan
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Oct 25 @ 12:45AM
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My grandparents and my father live in the South Houston Pasadena area and sustained a lot of damage they have yet you hear from there insurance adjusters so your lucky
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nah12
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Oct 25 @ 1:11AM
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good luck with the check SE .. hope it gets replaced soon ...
there are a lot of thing that happen during a hurricane just like a tornado that people that never have been through them can't even imagine and most of it is not good .....
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Loreli
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Oct 25 @ 10:03AM
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I am so glad you are safe 
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CrackerJackPat
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Oct 25 @ 11:33AM
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How devastating for all. Nah is right... it's hard to even imagine until one hears it as told by you. So glad you are safe & outta there.
You've got my prayers on that insurance check.
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Sheryll861
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Oct 26 @ 11:01AM
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Huuuuummmm, I would write VOID across the check and send it back certified mail right now, so the insurance company saves or does not charge you the $40 for having to cancel a business check.
Good thing you moved when you did and it seems everything is or will fall into place. And it is not like you need that check for the beach house immediately, like so many probably do.
I know it is and was devastating to so many folks.
Take care, later gator,
Sheryll & Critters.
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