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Old 05-06-2008, 01:27 PM   #150 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by highway80west View Post
Either trailerville or tent city. We haven't had earthquakes bad enough to force us into one of these. Even if we did have a major shaker, we'd still be having aftershocks, which still can make us uneasy as well.
Very true...In any incident involving natural disasters (hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, floods, fires), those that have their homes destroyed are put into temporary housing by the goverment...And that housing is trailers, as they can bring them quickly by barge and truck to the areas hit hardest.

The average time that those individuals end up living in 'goverment set up trailer parks' is about 3 years...And for those that aren't able to rebuild, the goverment will allow them to purchase the trailer at a significant lower price then it's actual cost...And from what I've been told, the trailers they bring in are really nice. Small, but up-to-date and not made to make those having to live in them feel like 'trailer trash'.

When we went home last year for my aunt's funeral, saw several of the FEMA trailer parks along the coast...Although the property damage around them were disheartening, it was nice to see those new trailers set up along the way and was very uplifting.