[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.

[nomorelurker]

I believe these were modular homes in two separate pieces. Since they were not used they were stored as two separate pieces. Normally these things are shipped from the factory to be set up quickly an only have light plastic sheeting to protect the exposed (unattached) side. You probably have seen them being towed down the highway. The failure was in storing them with only the sheeting and/or in not maintaining tarps used as additional protection in some cases.