[tobyhill]

How does a mobile home get destroyed by the weather in a little over a year?

[sportutegrl]

Tornado? (Mater: I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.)

[FourPeas]

Double-wides?

[wita]

You read it the same way I did. The darn things were built for outdoors weren't they? So how could not protecting them from sun and weather be a bad thing? Sure would make storage expensive if homes had to be stored indoors.

The article also mentioned "modular", which in my world, is a step up from mobile in construction and materials. I'm lost, and the next subject is the idiocy involved in not using them in the first place instead of arguing the disaster possibilities of having them in use in the south.

[Ruth C]

These were modulars and I would bet they were not put together.

I will never forget the big quake out here and the Governor suspending all the red tape bs to get the freeways repaired and rebuilt in record time.

The darn homes were for temporary housing, it's not like they were going to be at a particular place permanently so what's with the regulations and power mad idiots with their 'we won't let you put it here, or there, or over there, and certainly not at that spot'

[pandoraou812]

I heard they were sitting in mud , lots of mud. But that shouldn't ruin them. I think its more BS. My friend bought a trailer that had 2 feet of mud in it. Cleaned it up, put new fridge in it and uses it all summer. Unless they were vandalized or hit by tornado's or in high flood waters why should they be ruined? Why were they not used or stored in a safe place is my question. If there is damage repair them, give them to whoever needs them or sell them as is.