Why Connie doesn't have ID

[conuly]

I don't have all the points of identification needed to get a state ID. Most alarmingly, I have been having trouble getting my birth certificate - we believe it got flooded in Katrina. However, even with that, I wouldn't have all the points of identification needed to get a state ID. No pay stubs, no bills, nothing. I never even technically received my high school diploma. I graduated from high school, believe me, I remember - but I didn't bother to show up the next day to pick up my diploma, and it never came in the mail. Our mail delivery sucks out here, so I didn't think much about it.

It is actually easier for me to renew my passport than it would be for me to get a non-drivers license. In order to renew my passport, all I need is to bring in an old passport, and somebody with a valid ID to vouch for my identity.

My old passport is from childhood - it should still work for these purposes, but it makes the need to bring in another person all the more pressing.

None of my close relatives currently has a valid ID.

In order for me to get an ID, my mom or my sister first must take a day off of work to get their ID. Then they need to take another day off to go with me to get my ID - and towing two children along, it may be better to have a third person take off of work to watch the kids.

This is a huge production, and we've all been dragging out feet about it.

And that's why I have no ID at the moment.

Comments

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

So it was the levees more than Katraina Proper, right?

I just wante dto be sure before I said anything to the annoying as hell neighbor who keeps harping about how hurricane katrina was soooooooooooooooo bad to N.O. and LOOK HOW MUCH DAMAGE SHE DID!!!

:-p

[conuly]

I didn't say that, and I'm really far from an expert on this subject.

The levees were a big part of the problem, as well as the continued mismanagement of the situation after the hurricane hit (my father would call it a deliberate conspiracy, or at least proof positive that nobody cares about poor people or blacks. He was like that, but he may have would have been right anyway), but it was a force five hurricane, wasn't it? I can't make any judgment on where the blame lies.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Many people had the same opinion as your father would have expressed, actually.

It was a force five during most of it, but from what I gathered, by the time it got to N.O. it had calmed a LOT.