Florida's Pain
First thing I want to wish all the best to the folks affected by the tornado(s) in Florida. I've been to all those places and they were very nice communities. You could say, with all the snowbirds, that they are a cross-section of our citizens. Our prayers are with you.
In this tragedy, 19 people died. Apparently some blame is being laid on the preponderance of trailers/mobile homes (most of which are no longer any more mobile than tax law requires) and pre-fabs. Somebody somewhere has brought up the idea that these trailers and such need to be outlawed. I guess this person (or people) haven't priced housing and are ignoring one very important thing. What building you were in mattered very little. Photos show trailers, houses and a church built to withstand 150 mph winds all shattered. Such a ban would be a typical, government-knows-all-does-nothing approach to the problem. The REAL solution is to build a reinforced bathroom in the trailers and make sure that everyone has a weather radio, the kind that wakes you up in an emergency. Ignorance of the coming storm seems to have been the real problem.
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