Old-Biscuit wrote:
Forget about 'tying it down'
Travel Trailer/Park model is NOT built like a Mobile Home or Manufactured Home.
Tie Downs in dirt will only give YOU the false sense of safety.
Hurricane will just rip out those tie downs flip that trailer over.
IF hurricane happens you should already be gone to a SAFE place. NOT in that trailer.
Tie downs -----permanent--- are labor intensive, expensive and MUST be done to code
Thanks Old Biscuit - I see your point and I was thinking the same thinking the same thing about the tie downs in the dirt. Not sure how they consider those tie downs - only a few feet long - into the dirt makes it "permanent".
It reminded me of putting up a tent and putting those little stakes in the ground to prevent it from getting blown away in the wind and saying it makes it permanent. Tie downs in the dirt don't really make it "permanent" - at least to me. It would just get ripped out of the dirt with a hurricane.
If a hurricane does come, you better believe I am out of there - someone's house or a shelter somewhere where I know I will be safe.
