Tornadoes

Ron The Plumber

It always seems to amaze me how tornadoes always seem to take the path towards moblehome parks, it's like turn on the news, and there it is again, tornado tears through a mobilehome park, tornado alley most be full of these parks. If I lived in the alley you can bet it would not be in a park. How far apart are these parks that a tornado always seem to find one in it's path.

mdshunk

In my area, mobile home parks get flooded a lot. It's not that floods prefer mobile home parks, but it has more to due with the fact that they set up mobile homes in areas where wise people won't build a regular home.

Glasshousebltr

What it is, is that mobile homes are built with half or less dimensional lumber, there for, reducing the overall weight of the structure, creating an atomic weight of equal to or greater than the barometric pressure, by adding this to the formula from the Glasstein Effect.......

Or just maybe NOT

Bob

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Teetorbilt

I have observed many times that they "sounded just like a freight train.", too. I think that they use that sound as a disguise to catch the mobile homes off guard.

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copusbuilder

I wonder how many :"real homes" they clip and never knock down?

I do not think they are hitting them any more it's just that the ****ty construction techniques are......****ty.

I have always been amazed at people paying as much for a mobile home as a real home, then paying 12% on a depreciating structure until it is worthless?

I call it the comfort factor...I was raised in one and feel at home in one. Plus, they can get me into one and I can't get a real home

I just have to shake my head when we have a tornado warning here and they are advising people in mobile homes to leave the mobile home and find a ditch to lay in!!

Of course there are exceptions to the rule...but not the quality issue!!

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donb1959

I own a Palm Harbor. 1/2" sheetrock throughout, 3/4 T&G sub floor, 2x6 exterior studs on 16" centers, 2x4 studs on the interior on 16" centers, full OSB wrap, etc. I went to the PH plant before buying the home, the quality is outstanding. I don't care what you live in, if you take a direct hit from a tornado it's gonna do some damage. All property (homes) depreciate, it's the location that appreciates. There's a warning, and they tell me to go outside and lay on the ground, I think I'll take my chances in an inside closet.

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copusbuilder

Sounds well built. I stand corrected

Not the case with most though. I have a friend bought one with 2x4" walls. Problem was the 2x4's were set flat so the wall was 1.5" plus s/r

I really have to disagree with houses depreciating. Too many scenarios to destroy that theory.

Alas, I was not taliking direct hit but a glancing blow! you have to admit "most" of these homes are built like ****. If i lived in the average one I would take my chances in the ditch

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Teetorbilt

They have upped the construction for this area too. A mobile or pre-fab today meets some pretty strict codes.

The legacy lives on though. And there are a lot of older models still around, just haven't been whacked yet.

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oldgoat

I looked at some different mobile homes a couple of years ago and they all had 2 x 6 walls and 1/2 sheetrock. I didn't like the low vaulted ceilings, but the worst problem was I couldn't get insurance for them. My present one said they would consider it depending on if it didn't "look like a mobile home".

Glasshousebltr

You can put make up on a french whore, but you can't make her drink..........uh?

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dougchips

They come with wheels, why not drive them away from the storm?