This weather radio is on sale at Target for $15.00. You mean that the trailer occupants can't afford that? Oh well, I guess that the cost of a case of PBR outweighs personal safety. 
“I say it makes the mobile home that much more valuable,”
Ya right! A $20 weather radio is going to make a trailer more valuable. It’d take a helluva lot more than that.
The real problem is the mobile homes themselves. Everybody knows that they’re tornado magnets. Ever seen a tornado report that didn’t show a destroyed trailer park? I rest my case.
Now how do we convince folks to turn them on and replace the batteries occasionally? After the novelty has worn off, they will be turned off (false alarms will take care of that) and like smoke detectors … batteries will never be replace in most, ever.
Why does the governemtn NEED to do everything for us? CJ’s parents could have bought and had this radio themselves. They are trying to placate their guilt by insinuating that mobile homes should have always had this and mostly that IT WASN’T THEIR FAULT.
Why not make it manditory for everyone?
Oh yeah, those living in mobile homes in the San Francisco Bay area will sleep more soundly knowing that they'll have extra protection from tornado strikes. Typical government -- one size fits all -- and we'll force you to comply.
Why not mandate that your insurance company buy the weather receivers? They’re the ones responsible for tornadoes hitting trailer parks.
For the record, I’m living in a mobile home on my own land.
My all time favorite “invention” is “stamps you don’t have to lick”. It only took 200 years!!
If I was in the mobile home business I would fight this. What is going to happen when a tornado hits, years after a sale? Will families get millions because it “obviously didn’t work”?
Buy a radio if you think it will help. But the radio only helps if people act on it. I bet that history would show that the majority of injuries and fatalities occur prior to the announcement that a tornado is on the ground somewhere.
It is not the function of government to force mobile home manufacturers to put weather radios in their product. That is a function of the free market.
This weather radio is on sale at Target for $15.00. You mean that the trailer occupants can't afford that? Oh well, I guess that the cost of a case of PBR outweighs personal safety.
“It’s a public safety issue, not a Big Brother issue, and it’s not us trying to force things on people,” Ellsworth said.” - Rep. Ellsworth (D-IN)
What a moron. Just regarding the pragmatics of the issue, has Ellsworth ever set a radio to auto alarm for the weather alert frequencies? If so, he would realize that these government alarms are predominantly (1) annoying drills and (2) non-crisis events. If his bill is enacted, mobile home purchasers will disable his brainchild within the first month of ownership.
Next they will be mandating police ban radios installed in all new mobile homes. That way you can know when your neighbors have called in yet another domestic dispute camplaint on you and you can calm down before the police arrive.
Bachus no doubt representing Boaz, home of "Boazna" mobile homes - and not much in the way of higher education.
Any high school freshman can tell you who really pays for these radios: the buyer of the trailer.
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Hell, just mandate that all trailers be built to withstand an F5 tornado. Problem solved!
God Bless Technology! Now, if they’d only invent a device that alerts my husband to the fact that the TP roll is EMPTY and he needs to change it before the door unlocks to let him out again!
Now THAT would make my home MUCH more valuable to me. :)
I grew up in Toledo Ohio and we had tornadoes. We also had old air raid sirens. Guess what they sounded when a tornado was spotted? We all knew what that siren meant. This makes a heckuva lot more sense than radios in mobile homes.