"Punta Gorda hit badly. LE is guarding stacks of bodies in a mobile home park there according to FoxNews. 4 counties declared major disaster areas. "
Sorry but I think modular or mobile homes in hurricane prone areas should have a mandatory mobile home community storm bunker equipped with a generator for all of the mobile park residents to stay safe in. It's the most sensible solution so far. There is no way these people could have remained out of harms way inside their mobile homes. The news showed another senior citizen retirement mobile home park that is destroyed. I find it hard to believe home insurers there carry these mobile homes. It isn't practical or safe. Many many Oklahoma residents have tornado bunkers.
People live in mobile homes because they can't afford to live in regular houses. And they sure as hell can't afford to subsidize a steel-reinforced concrete bunker with failsafe power supply, potable water, foodstuffs, blah blah blah, yada yada yada. Besides, in low lying areas, a bunker would be at risk for flooding in these sorts of situations.
The solution to the problem of mobile home parks is to grow the damned economy so that people can afford to live in regular homes.
Of course, an awful lot of the people who can't afford to live in anything better than a mobile home park are either mentally retarded [or, if not clinically "retarded," at least substantially to the left of center of the bell curve], substance abusers, or single women who keep spreading their legs and making babies with worthless louts who won't marry them, so that, in many of these situations, there's not a whole heckuva lot that even a growing economy can do to improve their fortunes.