Q,

This should be looked into.

It's a small segment of an article I stumbled across on some weather website.

It doesn't seem right that the panhandle waited 4 months for a small check.

We should be able to do better than that if it's true.

"We recognize there are other places in the country that have issues. But northwest Florida in the last six weeks to eight weeks, we feel like we have fallen by the wayside," said Mayor Al Cathey of Mexico Beach, the seaside city of about 1,200 people that lost 80 percent of its homes when the hurricane barreled ashore on Oct. 10 with 155-mph (250-kph) winds. "I don't want to not sound appreciative for all that was done initially. They showed up en masse, and we're grateful. But now we're at the point of a reality check."

Mexico Beach only received its first reimbursement check for $2.4 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in February, more than four months after the storm hit.