Posted on 08/16/2004 4:26:54 PM PDT by jolie560
You're nuts.
What do you propose we do with every home that was built before 1990 or is not up to "Code"? Why not just ban Cat 4 hurricanes? LOL
Yes I remember reading similar stories.
Well, there you go. Sounds like it is political.
I got in an argument with an aquaintance many years ago about the structural qualities of motorhomes. About 10 years later I helped him move stuff from his home when a huge hole appeared in his floor ... it was about 2 feet across. This doesn't happen in a normal home.
Well, there you go. Sounds like it is political.
I got in an argument with an aquaintance many years ago about the structural qualities of motorhomes. About 10 years later I helped him move stuff from his home when a huge hole appeared in his floor ... it was about 2 feet across. This doesn't happen in a normal home.
Forget it! There is no reason to ban Mobile homes for earthquakes... Mobiles don't collapse in earthquakes, they aren't heavy and they can bend. Old brick and masonry structures, and adobe and other kinds of construction are what leads to massive casualties in earthquakes. not to mention falling glass from large buildings.
The mobiles in Florida may not withstand hurricanes, but they are worth about $4,000 and most were unnoccupied.
Anybody that lives in a mobile home in a Huricane zone should know that probabilty that their home is going to be a goner if a storm strike. In fact, one weaker than Charley could get the job done.
It would be wise for those who can afford it to buy something a little more solid.
Well, LOL to you too. Building in California have to be brought up to code. I'm facing this with my 1986 built home in my current remodel. It must be brought up to code.
LOL.
All that hot aluminum creates a localized thermal, i.e., a relative low pressure area with it's own inflow of air. Kind of gives the tornado system the 'come hither'. (totally wild guess)
Any sailplane pilots out there who find thermals over trailer parks?
Yes you could build a safe home for the same price or less. It might not be as big or have as many ammenities, but it would be safe.
Also $24,000 may be for the unit itself, it does not include the cost of tranportation, permits and fees, and supports or ties downs on the site. Also, you are renting the land most probably.
So for comparable costs, you could build a small safe home on a small lot for the same money.
You may not have community ammenities like a pool or clubhouse ... but this is what I mean. All these things are TRADE - OFFS for safety. People are simply gambling that their number won't come up .... or that someone will come along to bail them out financially if it does, assuming they survive.
It's borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, our national mentality.
Can I help you?
Agreed, look at my post #34 where I posited that mobilhomes have been banned in southern California (or LAQ more specifically) as they drag property values down.
There we go. :)
I think you're nuts... I haven't been to Southern Cal in several years, but I am gonna bet there are mobiles there.
I guess everyone could live in a massive concrete box of some kind and we would never have any weather related deaths.
I had a conservative Contracts professor in law school who used to drive the bleading hearts crazy by always siding against the "downtrodden" in any particular case while saying, "Hey, there are costs to being poor." So, make yourself some money.
There are no mobile homes in metropolitan urban areas ... surely there are in more rural areas of which there are many. But mobile homes get pushed out as sure as I sit here. As I say, they drag down property values.
And it appears, they put lives in Florida in danger.
thankyouverymuch
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