POWER OF GIVING CHARITY SUMMARY:In August of 2007 my house that I worked all my life for was completely destroyed by the federally declared disaster that affected the upper Mid West. I am writing this with the hopes that there might be some hope for me left in the world. In August of 2007 my house that I worked all my life for was completely destroyed by the federally declared disaster that affected the upper Mid West, specifically kenosha Wisconsin and other nearby areas. Around August 18th on 2007 we got "stuck" in a torrential flooding pattern for weeks on end.
We recieved OVER 20 inches of rain in one week alone. My home was so flooded everything was totally ruined and my attached front porch actually started to sink into the ground tearing itself away from the house.
All the basement walls started to crack and leak more and more water into the basement. I stayed with my house, did not give up. I spent the next six weeks desperately trying to dry everything out and get rid of what was no longer salvageable.
One morning about 6 weeks after the floods stopped I came down from my bedroom to make some breakfast and while still half awake and walking towards my kitchen I noticed "spots" all over the place.
At first I thought I had spilled something but as I looked close I could see that it was all MOLD.. EVERYWHERE!!
It was florescent green, cotton white, tar black, bright orange.. it was everywhere. I spent the next couple of weeks trying so hard to get rid of it all but it was out of control.
All my hardwood floors buckled and turned green with fuzzy mold. All my furniture became covered in mold, I couldn't stop it. I stayed with my house "going down with the ship" as they say and became sicker & sicker each day.
I never took mold exposure seriously at all. I ended up in the emergency room over nine times with serious illnesses and finally my doctor ordered me out of my house as I was diagnosed with "acute/chronic mycotoxicosis" which is an extremely severe reaction/infection to prolonged toxic mold exposure.
I now have permanent scarring in the bottom 1/3 of my right lung due to a extremely severe mold infection in my lungs. The mold had gotten into my lungs and started growing. It can be fatal.
I now also have chronic obstructive pulminary disease and chronic severe asthma along with a host of other very serious ailments due to the mold and all the damage it did to my immune system and body as a whole.
I lost EVERYTHING.. everything I've worked for my whole life. I feel like giving up on life. I lost all my clothes to mold, my furniture, all my irreplacable belongings, my HOME, EVERYTHING.
My insurance company said that they do not cover flood losses, sewer back up.. yes.. but not water pouring into the basement.
My home is now posted by the health department as "unfit for human habitation" and they are ready to issue a raze order but are holding off since they know that it will be my financial repsonsibility to pay to have it torn down and disposed properly in a landfill.
The cost of doing so ranges between $15,000 & $20,000. I don't know where to turn anymore. I am at the end of my rope.
Please PLEASE PLEASE find it in your heart to find a way to help me.
Sincerely, Douglas Becker.
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