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I have no idea why they were still empty, but the word on the street was that it had something to do with their sewer hookups not being suitable. After Katrina, 1 million people lost their homes in Louisiana and Mississippi. FEMA sent thousands of mobile homes into the region only to learn later of high levels of formaldehyde, a chemical used in the glue for building materials that can lead to breathing problems and is also believed to cause cancer. They’re clean, shutterless and decorated with a rainbow of beige hues. They’re mobile homes built for future disaster victims and, so far, have safe levels of formaldehyde.
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Katrina killed 1,500 people and caused $80 billion in damage when it swept ashore in late August 2005 near New Orleans, shattering the levees protecting the low-lying city and swamping entire neighborhoods. The six-month Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1. Forecasters are expecting above-average storm activity. "We knew we needed to bring this program to a close," the official said. "We also want to ensure a humane and secure transition for all of them."
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It was amazing seeing the convoy of all these trailers one right after another as far as you could see. I think the sadest thing of all is that absolutely no progress is being made by the Federal Government to help these people and we are staring the 2006 Hurricane Season right in the face. In less than 6 months we will have a Gulf of Mexico that is warmer than last year, a still devastated coast line, and a FEMA organization with no credibility or success in helping these victims. I can only shudder to think what 2006 has in store for us. Why were those trailers ordered if they knew they couldn't be used on the Gulf coast? Makes absolutely no sense to spend tax dollars for them to sit in a field in Ark., and paying that state money for rent to have them there.
Use our mortgage calculatorto see how much it would be to finance a home in New Prague. Find and compare apartments for rent in New Prague. Had they acted then, 50 to 60 families would have had a temporary home for the holidays and a place to stay while they get their lives back together. After Rita came ashore I found out that FEMA was seeking places to put mobile homes for those displaced by both Katrina and Rita.
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They will sit and the elements will get to them and they will become unliveable. If they can't get it right on a natural disaster level, how do we hope that they can get it right in a major "man made" disaster that they kept reminding us "may" come. We have been let down by those we will need to count on in disasterous times. On a recent drive across country I was witness to hundreds of these FEMA trailers being transported.
The trailers can be used in Tornado Corridors - Earth Quakes and other natural disasters. Unbelievable, what a bunch of bureaucracy and poor planning. Every time I think I've heard the worst part of this story, something else comes along.
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Find out more about its multimedia magazine at distillations.org. That was when Shapiro decided to follow up and started testing the trailers himself. He’d become preoccupied with them — how ubiquitous they remained despite their known risks. He defrayed his expenses by calling in favors; there was the analytical chemistry lab that agreed to run the tests for free, and a colleague who applied part of a grant from the National Science Foundation toward shipping.
How the trailers had made their way to North Dakota from Louisiana was a riddle. Back in 2010, FEMA donated several hundred trailers to the local Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa; it would not have been hard for the trailers to migrate again out of Turtle Mountain and into the oil fields. Shapiro was expecting to find oil and gas workers living in them.
It is very easy to focus on the disaster that has already hit. A disaster that was not answered by anyone correctly. However, if we re-focus our energy, sell off the not for flood area trailers and replace them with Gulf Coast suitable trailers, haven't we just accomplished what so many complain of? We have rendered ourselves unprepared to handle the next major disaster unless, of course, it hits New Orleans or the Gulf area.
AR Sen. Pryor has been screeming for some time about this and nothing happens. If a manufactured home is not suitable, what the heck is? The tents that some are living in certainly seem equally unacceptable. Thanks to AC 360 for keeping this FEMA mess in the public eye. Just another example of American tax dollars at work. I'm sure if you look hard enough you will find others and other disasters where FEMA has fallen down on the job.
The six newly designed mobile homes were rolled out Thursday by federal officials to replace the much-criticized travel trailers used in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many people said living in the earlier models made them sick. FEMA employee Linda Krut tours the inside of the Heston Modular during the debut of six newly designed mobile homes at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Emergency Training Center, in Emmitsburg, Md., Thursday, April 14, 2009. The new fleet of mobile homes were presented by federal officials to replace the much-criticized travel trailers used in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A fleet of newly designed mobile homes was rolled out Thursday by federal officials to replace the much-criticized travel trailers used in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I am the Acting Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service .
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“Then I said to the girl who was in charge of selling them, ‘You know this is illegal.'” The woman said that she didn’t know what Horine was talking about, but Horine noticed that the trailers were gone the next day. The seller refused, and promptly declared bankruptcy. Horine contacted the General Services Administration, the government agency that had handled the trailer auctions. Horine had bought hers from a reseller, for $6,000, while that reseller had bought it at auction for around $1,000. We recently completed the sales of the remaining significant inventory held by FEMA. At the end of January, the majority of the remaining units, a total of 101,802 units, were sold as 11 lots via GSA Auctions®.
Based upon the lack of change since then, it still is!! There is no reason why a regulation that prevents placing the mobile homes in a flood plain should be enforced under Post-Katrina conditions. An exemption should have been sought long ago in this case. Instead, this regulation is used ad the excuse for no action. Seems to me there still are too many empty heads running Homeland Security/FEMA. Is is anyone awake at the White House? Seems like there still are too many political appointees and not enough professional emergency management people at work.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has selected GSA as its Sales Center. ORLANDO, Florida - Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, nearly 40,000 families still are living in vulnerable mobile homes and trailers across the U.S. Gulf Coast with another hurricane season just two months away, the top U.S. disaster official said on Wednesday. I went down to NOLA this past December, and I can tell you that even the FEMA trailers they have there aren't being used. I was helping clean up a church in the Upper Ninth, and across the street was a whole huge parking lot worth of FEMA trailers, each one could've housed a family -- and in late December, they were all still empty, and no one knew when they would become avaliable.
A decade after Katrina had summoned the trailers into existence, the ill-fated homes might almost be safe to live in. There were no restrictions on continued use of the usable manufactured housing units because they were built to standards established by the Department of Housing and Urban Development , which are included in the Code of Federal Regulations . There are restrictions placed on manufactured housing units sold as scrap. Sure, in an ideal world, you wouldn't put prefab housing in an area prone to flooding, but housing in the NOLA area is a crisis. A temporary solution so that people can move back while their homes are being repaired or rebuilt is certainly better than nothing.
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