Tornado vs Mobile Home

A Fox 2 Fox File report that takes a look at the real numbers when it comes to mobile homes being hit by tornadoes.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• fox2
• st.louis
• myfoxstl
• tornado
• mobile
• home
• weather

[Mommy0fTwo]

Dammit, i read Tornado vs Mobile phone, and i get tricked into watching this crap.

[paulblackstone]

I survied a tornado in a 1999 Cavalier single wide manufactured home. I purchased my home with a Wind Zone II Package, and had extra anchors - the cost was 11.28 more a month, but the only damage was from other manufactured homes in my community slamming up against mine.

[sonamy55]

@Mommy0fTwo LOL you funny you shit head and the shit head tornado

[Livinggreen100]

@kevintomb So True.

The important thing about a video like this is that it is the ANCHORing system a home has and NOT that it is a mobile home, that makes the difference.

You could live in a site built home that doesn't have a firm foundation and experience serious damage.

Builders and the Realtors Associations have been trying to create a negative image of "manufactured" homes, when in fact, site built homes are made from the same materials. Its Irronic compared to 30 or 40 yrs ago.

[TheNuckingfut]

Of course the doublewide is not going to be as damaged as the singlewide ya fuckin tards report on something you know about like weather or if ya got an extra minute go fuck yourselfs!!

[craigenputtock]

I also survived a tornado. I was swept up into it and I started spining around and almost reached the top when the wind gave out. I though i was going to die but I fell into a lake and was all right.

[kevintomb]

@gulfcoastdude Ya, totally agree. Most dont understand the myth of mobile homes being made lighter than a regualr house. Its simply not true. Most modern mobile homes use 2x6 wall studs, plywood outer sheating on all walls and rood and for all intents are pretty much the same build as a typical wooden framed home. In fact the mobile home has many metal anchors attatching the walls and roof together that regular homes dont have. Have you seen homes with roofs ripped off?>

[kevintomb]

@MrShannon888 Thats actually not true.

Its true of really old ones, yes but modern ones from the 90s onwards are built quite the same as any regular wood framed regular house. Most people dont understand how manufactured homes are made and it shows reading most of these comments. Most of the ones destroyed in storms or tornadoes were NOT tied down or were from the very early days when they had practically no building standards for "trailers". Read up some about wall construction and so on.

[googlewhores]

Would you ever consider living in a mobile home again?

No not at all

I wouldnt even consider it

[lionshand]

I'm Team Mobile Home.

[kevintomb]

Why they ran outside is totally stupid. Okay if it can destroy a multithousand pound house, and trees and debree are flying in the air, why in the hell would you go outside INTO a tornado.>>?????

[kevintomb]

a lot of clueless people. A regular wood frame home is not built any stronger its only that its attatched to a basement. A well made mobile home properly anchored its able to withstand about the same winds a frame house is.

Only the really really old ones from the 60s and 70s are built quite a bit different. Many mobile homes actually have steel anchors on sidewalls and from sidewall to roof trusses as shown in this video. Sorry but the people in this video needed anchors. Its called clueless.