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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fishfiles" data-source="post: 17973" data-attributes="member: 782"><p>I been away for a while as I been without electricity at home for over two weeks from hurricane Gustav bending the power poll and pulling the service off the side the house , lucky for me my fiance's house was ok so I had a place to stay but no internet , got right back to work and the storm chaser where here till Ike hit and most took off for South west La. and Texas as the damages hear where not so bad -------what I want to tell you'll about is the upside down pyraimd of hurricane clean up pay , and why chasing storms to me is a waste of time for the non connected people , every Parish ( we don't have counties here ) has different pay but very similiar , 11 dollars a cubic yard is given if you supply a truck , driver , machine to load , operator and two flag man ,that's 4 people to pay , one flag man in fount the machine and one in back the machine , to just haul is 8 dollars and to just load is 3 dollars , that is the highet pay , in one Parish it's 6 dollars to load and haul , most locals have given up doing it so out of towners come it and take the job , here is the real kicker , the contractor that has the contract to clean up is owned by a former top ranking goverment offical , they own no equipment , no trucks and no operators or drivers , all they do is sit at the dump and keep track of how many yards is in each truck that dumps and get paid by how many yards are dumped , from what we gather they are making 39 dollars a cubic yard to keep track of how much trash is collected , seems that sometimes the work is subed down to another contractor at a leasser price and they sub it out again to others , what a waste of money , top the pyramid make 400 percent more than the people who actually do the job</p></blockquote><p></p>

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