Posted on 05/15/2009 5:16:36 PM PDT by knarf
The last I heard they were just sitting there
OOPS ...LOUISIANA ... (sorry, Lois)
The last I heard they were just sitting there
Pretty much what a mobile home does unless they put it on a raft/barge and it just floats there.
Are by chance talking about the Katrina temp trailers?
We need to find out. The Quantanamo detainees will need them when they move into a neighborhood near you, unless of course, their lawyers argue that living in a trailer is cruel and unusual punishment.
3 more years of Obama, we’ll all be feeling lucky to be living in something as nice as a FEMA trailer.
They’ll probably make highrise apartments out of all of those shipping containers arriving from China that we don’t fill and ship back.
I saw a HUGE lot outside of Hattiesburg, MS which was a holding area for all those trailers.......God knows what the taxpayers paid for that boon doggle
Yes ... the Katrina trailers.
FEMA Temporary Housing Program Ending For Families Of Hurricanes Katrina And Rita
What happens to individuals and families still living in temporary housing units on May 1, 2009?
Since the temporary housing unit program was extended over two years ago, FEMA has been working with occupants to transition out of the program into more permanent homes. Included in this work were several notifications of eventual termination. In mid April of this year, FEMA notified applicants that Notices to Vacate were impending. On May 1, FEMA will begin delivering Notices to Vacate to inform applicants that they must surrender the housing unit by May 30. FEMA has been providing temporary housing for 44 months - 26 months longer than the statutory limit.
How many households does this affect?
There are 5,101 households still residing in either FEMA temporary housing units or in a hotel/motel as of April 28. This is down from a high of over 143,000 individuals and households who were provided temporary housing under this program during the height of operations.
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I was on IH55 North of Hammond La in MS late last year and I came across a site holding hundreds if not thousand of trailers some where up in MS. I'm not sure why they are still storing them as they aren't habitable I think because of famaldihyde or some such thing. I may be wrong on that cause.
“3 more years of Obama, we’ll all be feeling lucky to be living in something as nice as a FEMA trailer.”
Formaldehyde and all!
Formaldehyde was banned in the '70's (I think) ... if it showed up in new trailers in the early '90's ....... !!
Class action on its way.
What happened to New Orleans? I thought Bush left everything in shambles and Obami would take care of the mess. Could it be someone was lying?
Could it be the Bushies actually did all that could realistically be done?
I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.
Every one of those trailers had a certification attached to them that said basically..."Meets Or Exceeds Government Standards"
That included formaldehyde.
Fema and formaldehyde;
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=36730
Fema trailers called health hazard
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-8/118042009221740.xml&coll=1
and more via google searches
The ones that were lived in are being sold at auction everywhere. I can find the site that sells them in Texas, but it may take awhile. I have it somewhere. Most of them have been stripped out, no toilets, air conditioners gone, broken doors and windows. They may have just stolen the air unit off the roof, but the rain for months have ruined the walls and floors. Any trailer that is still repairable goes for too much money. Another thing to remember is the "newer ones" won't have a water or sewage storage tank. They were built by contract to go to parks with sewer and water connections.
I don't seem many trailers now.
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