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Apparently, FEMA just can't stop screwing up. Here's the latest from the local front:

Hundreds of Hurricane Katrina evacuees could soon be evicted from their Charlotte homes because federal relief checks have not arrived, local social workers say.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has dispatched teams of workers to North Carolina to find out why evacuees don't have rental assistance, four weeks after FEMA promised to send checks of $2,358 to cover three months' housing.

In some cases, evacuees say FEMA mailed checks to former addresses in New Orleans. Other checks arrived in Charlotte but never reached evacuees because they were sent to the wrong address.

As a result, frustrated former Gulf Coast residents who fled the devastating Aug. 29 storm are inundating FEMA and local social agencies with calls, and social workers fear many hurricane evacuees will become homeless.

FEMA mailed the checks to New Orleans?!? I don't think these guys are even trying anymore.