Posted on 08/13/2004 10:08:09 AM PDT by Jeff400000
They keep people working too :')
It can be more practical to have a mobile home in some places --- areas that flood for example --- here in the areas that have flooding, those up higher in their mobile homes don't have to scrape 2 feet of mud out of their homes.
nice cats!
this one is going 4-5 times higher then that I think.
True. I was in one during a flash flood that had water almost up to the floor. I never realized how fast water could rise before. One minute, just the grass covered and 15 minutes later it was two feet deep.
I agree! Heck, I think it would be great to have one that you could just LOCK and LEAVE without much maintenance.......
Some of the ones I see look pretty good to me; heck, they even have jacuzzis!
that eye wall was just like being in a 5 mile wide F2 tornado.
You obviously haven't seen every mobile home park. My great-aunts lived in a retirement park near Phoenix which was all mobile homes --- very nice place --- all retired people, very friendly and the park was very tidy. They even had the areas under the trailers dug out so they could be at ground level --- no stairs. Many of these people liked to travel and didn't feel like maintaining the big houses they once owned and wanted their retirement money more freed up for the fun stuff.
Yeah. I had forgotten too, that if you wait too long you can't get out of a mobile home.
Its pathetic the way people sterotype others by the type of housing they live in....very elitist, arrogant, and downright snotty....Kerryesque.
Some are making it sound like it will be no big deal for us then I'm watching CNN a while ago and they were saying it came inland farther south than they expected so we are more in the line of fire than they previously expected. Possibly some are simply hyping it.
It does concern me that we had so much rain in the night though. Geez, it woke me up several times the noise from the pouring down rain. Our ground is just about as saturated as it can be.
MKM
>>>>>I would like to help, but not thru the Red Cross. Any suggestions?<<<<<<<<
I know that the Southern Baptist Convention has a Disaster Relief Team that each state convention has that is very efficient at getting help to the people who need it most. I am sure that they already have their teams there with more help on the way. Contact a local Southern Baptist Church for more information. Any donations go 100% to what it is designateded towards.
Thanks. That's what I'll do. I'll check with the SA too.
designateded = designated, that's what happens when you stay up late and get up early...
Same here and I'm a good bit further north.
A lot of the folks living in those mobile home parks are elderly, too. Some very elderly. And some of them may have been too frightened and /or incapable of leaving without assistance from someone else. John Zarrella on CNN was talking about a group of elderly physically unharmed but dazed. They'd stayed put, and the building they were in was so badly damaged that it was immediately condemned.
SA is good too. I know about the SBC disaster relief teams personally and know that they don't care about getting all of the glory like the Red Cross.
You obviously haven't seen some of the mobile home communities in the Punta Gorda area.
Andrew had 26 deaths.
Fran had 37 and Floyd had 57.
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