Wonder if fema will start buying RV'S again?

They put modular houses in BR. They seem to have gotten way too much flack over the RV thing. Ungrateful.....!
U think a hundred in Arizona is bad, they were stacked up by the thousands covering several acres around here.
Ungrateful sorry a ......

I read somewhere where FEMA said they changed their practices on handling disasters and would no longer resort to using these type of trailers.

Forget FEMA trailers. Their all gonna scream for the latest silly craze, FEMA Tiny Houses.

timmac wrote:

colliehauler wrote:
With catastrophic flooding in Houston I wonder if they will use RV'S for temporary housing?

I hope not, the last time our tax dollars paid millions for RV's to help these people they complained up one side and down the other.

Just give them Army tents this time around, if its good enough for our troops than its good enough for the hurricane victims..

You won't have that type of attitude with the Houston flooding. You can already see from the news clips how differently these people are handling the flooding disaster in their town. Grateful for help, no video clips of victims of the flood screaming, yelling,complaining about everything, up to and including when they were taken in and fed and clothed, etc. In Katrina within minutes of the flood there was wide spread looting, you aren't seeing that here and won't.

I vividly remember a video clip from Katrina where one lady was screaming,yelling and complaining on camera about how bad she was treated and where the hell was her FEMA trailer that she was 'entitled' to. Only thing was she didn't even ever own a home. :R

Lynnmor wrote:

MrWizard wrote:
FEMA, never bought RVs
They bought EMG mfg housing
That was more like conventional mobile homes

If you search for "FEMA trailer photos" you will see that many are simply the same trailers sold as RVs. They had residential refrigerators and no water tanks. Others were like conventional mobile homes.

In 2012 Beckleys RV in Thurmont MD sold a ton of travel trailers right off their lot in response to Sandy. We were in the process of buying from them at the time. I am not sure if it was FEMA or a state emergency agency, such as New Jersey, which was were they were shipped to.

Deja Vu

TomG2 wrote:
Hundreds, maybe thousands were dumped on the used travel trailer market. They ranged from good to awful condition with most being the latter. Some made it as far north as Illinois where a few people put them on sites as seasonal trailers. One bank had a bunch of them for around $3,000 which was about twice what they were worth.

They were all over the place for sale here in PA after Katrina, and were being run through some of the auctions at wholesale prices. At an auction the ones I looked at were new and never used, but basically slapped together junk.

Our family purchased a used FEMA trailer several years ago for an elderly relative to live in. Walls, floors, finishes were mostly the same. They had residential fridges and toilets, full size showers, big closets, no holding tanks, and very few windows. The slide was a manual crank and there was no gas appliances. The frames were different too, being much taller and arguably more stout. They fit the bill for a permanent setup, but not for a mobile travel trailer.

There are not lots of new ready-to-go FEMA trailers waiting for a disaster. They'll have to be produced, which means an order will have to be made. The order(s) will come based on the long-term need. For Katrina, there were lots of folks who relied purely on the government for their every need (including housing). From what I gather, that does not represent the majority of people displaced by Harvey.

Hundreds, maybe thousands were dumped on the used travel trailer market. They ranged from good to awful condition with most being the latter. Some made it as far north as Illinois where a few people put them on sites as seasonal trailers. One bank had a bunch of them for around $3,000 which was about twice what they were worth.

Well they come get some Katrina units that are still on some fenced lots in the Yuma, AZ. area. Some outfit brought about 100 units to a lot in the area and were trying to sell them. What a joke that outfit was. Sign said "open 9-5 daily, very rarely was anybody around. Several years ago all of a sudden they started to disappear. While riding around the Yuma area, I have seen several different fenced lots they are now stored in. Turns out, they had lost their lease on the original lot.

MrWizard wrote:
FEMA, never bought RVs
They bought EMG mfg housing
That was more like conventional mobile homes

If you search for "FEMA trailer photos" you will see that many are simply the same trailers sold as RVs. They had residential refrigerators and no water tanks. Others were like conventional mobile homes.

colliehauler wrote:
With catastrophic flooding in Houston I wonder if they will use RV'S for temporary housing?

I hope not, the last time our tax dollars paid millions for RV's to help these people they complained up one side and down the other.

Just give them Army tents this time around, if its good enough for our troops than its good enough for the hurricane victims..