Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: tbpiper

Actually the truth about tornadoes and mobile homes is that many of the "tornadoes" that hit mobile home parks.....aren't.

The NWS takes 2-3 days to do damage surveys, and by the time they determine something was a downburst or straight-line winds, the media has moved on from the story.

The media (or residents of the park) see any serious structural damage or a home tipped over, it's immediately a "tornado."

The victims desperately WANT it to have been a tornado; makes a better, more exciting survival story to tell than something they don't understand, like a downburst or something. Also I think there's a sense of embarrassment if the damage was from something that wasn't a tornado.

And straight-line winds can be very, very strong; while usually not capable of causing damage to regular housing (though they do at times) they can be really destructive in a mobile home park.


82 posted on 08/16/2004 6:35:11 PM PDT by Strategerist
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]


To: Strategerist
The victims desperately WANT it to have been a tornado

That's as good a wild guess as mine.

100 posted on 08/16/2004 7:46:33 PM PDT by tbpiper (Michael Moore…..the Erich von Däniken of political documentary)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 82 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson