Some manufactured homes even have basements and are not converted trailers.
I do wish people would get this right.
15-20% greater chance is a lot less than I would have thought.
Dr. Johnny Fever : [recounting his boyhood experience with a tornado] My mother and I were in a tornado once. We were in a mobile home, and I think God must really hate mobile homes, Andy, because tornadoes always attack them first... they get very mobile.
How is a tornado like a redneck divorce?
Somebody’s fixin’ to lose a double wide.
I know! Let’s price poor people out of the housing market entirely!
We’ll put them in built to government spec section 8 high-rises towering over your neighborhood (not mine!)
This is news?? When I grew up in Oklahoma in the ‘60s we called trailers tornado magnets even then.
Oh come on for this tornado the wind was so high it ripped apart everything. Including commercial buildings. I guess that fact does not matter to the left.
God hates trailer parks.
Anything EF-3 or above will obliterate any house. Manufactured on site or in a factory won’t change that.
Tornado Country - James Gregory
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=456383448263831
Evidence:
"To really drive it home, the National Weather Service says you are 15-20% more likely to die in a manufactured home than a permanent home during severe weather.
Translated: You're 80-85% safer in a 'permanent' home than in a manufactured home in a tornado. Asinine.
Try telling that to these folks:
Manufactured and modular are the the same thing to regulatory agencies...
Seeing videos like this at least restores some of my faith in humanity....
03-28-2023 Rolling Fork, MS - Tornado Relief - Cooking - Cleanup - Sound with Victim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfQCk7OXBo
That doesn’t sound like a problem with manufactured homes. That sounds like a problem with living in the sticks. Doesn’t matter how the home is built, 20 minutes from shelter is 20 minutes from shelter.
Aren’t **all** homes manufactured?
I don’t see why a factory manufactured home couldn’t be **superior** in design over an on-site manufactured home.
Well, as evidenced by various howls of outrage above, the danger does depend on the quality of construction either way.
But if one actually visits tornado sites, whether in person or, say, by drone, online, whatever is in “trailer parks” as of this decade definitely fares worse than houses in “conventional” neighborhoods. My wife and I took food to friends in Mayfield, KY, a few days after the December 2021 low end F4 tornado, and looped all around the town outside of the downtown business district, which was closed off. SOME homes directly in the path were completely destroyed, but usually one could tell, more or less, what had been there. Many still had at least some interior walls upright or leaning (very common). Brick-veneer homes tended to do better than not.* Manufactured and “trailer” homes were generally just piles of rubble, and often said rubble (pretty much everything but the foundation or slab) was mostly or completely removed from the foundation.
*The problem with brick and / or masonry is that if a wall does come down on you, you’re in big trouble. But, the interior portions of most of the brick homes still had “survivable” interior spaces. I was in a brick veneer home in an F3 as a 10 y/o, the home built around 1956. It lost much of the roof, and exterior walls were from warped / cracked to fallen inward, but, not through the floor into the partial basement where we were sheltered. The north end of the house looked “best”, but even there, the joints to the concrete basement walls / foundation were pulled over halfway loose.
*I conclude the weight of the brick helped keep the entire house above ground level from going airborne**, so, such mass CAN be helpful — there were survivable spaces in the interior hallway that ran much the length of the house. If the whole house does a “Dorothy”, the outlook isn’t good, regardless of how strong the walls are. OTOH, in the infamous “Candle Factory” in Mayfield, KY, a cement block wall collapsed on people. :-(
**In that F3 tornado, a neighbor had a very well built (”stick” construction) non-attached 2-car garage on a slab beside their (very nice) largish house. The house suffered moderate damage (still livable post-storm), but the garage got picked up as a unit and dumped into a pond in back of the house. In times when the water got a bit low and clear, from the right angle you could see the top of the roof, intact as far as could be seen, just below the surface.
My conclusion would be that a modern manufactured home VERY well attached to the foundation (say, heavy foundation bolts every 18” or so, to a real foundation or slab) might be survivable in a low end F3, but would not be salvageable. Any metal roof on any type structure would need likely 3x screws around all edges, to have a chance...
Tornadoes destroy ordinary houses right down to nothing, just the same as with trailers. Don’t believe me? Go find the photographs of Mayfield Kentucky following the 2021 storms. Those weren’t trailers.