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Hillwilliam -> RE: Hey the weather channel has gotten on the fake news bandwagon (9/11/2017 6:57:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker
Ummm... so was the neighborhood destroyed or not?
I don't understand how it being a trailer park somehow makes it less of a neighborhood.
Fake news is stuff that doesn't have a shred of truth to it and tends to serve a purely political purpose-- like Pizzagate or Hillary was arrested yesterday.
If the story actually happened, then even if there's a whiff of sensationalism there it's still not fake news.
The point is that in order to get a maximum effect from the video, they chose to film the one area that would show complete and udder devastation, a mobile home park.
I have friends living in Naples, and they were the ones that brought it to my attention, basically saying that if you went by that footage, you would believe the entire town was flattened, which is not the case, in point of fact, that while the damage is bad, it is not near as bad as that clip implies.
Basically some roof damage, minor structural damage and a lot of water damage, but not complete devastation.
In other words, the producer who decided to use that footage picked a location to get maximum effect and imply that things were worse than they really are.
Mobile homes are going to take a beating in high winds. In fact, you cannot get a standard home owners policy, the insurance on a mobile home is considerably higher due to the fact they do get damaged easily.
One more thing on a mobile home, they are not considered permanent structures, so you get a title, like a car, to prove ownership.
The alternative is a modular home that is basically built in a factory, trucked to the site and set on a standard home foundation with the intent of never moving it again.
In those instances, the home owners insurance is the same as any other stick built home. And modular homes are usually (not always, depends on the company) built to a higher standard than a normal house since it has to be trucked to a location.
Firms building modular homes in the gulf and coastal states even design them so they can be placed on wood stilts or concrete pilings above the storm surge.
Some years ago, in a response to the fact that standard mobile homes cannot stand up to high winds, a bill was introduced in congress that would have basically made mobile homes uninsurable as permanent dwellings, which failed because the opposition claimed that they were a cheap alternative to standard constructed homes.
In SOME areas, Jeff, a modular home may be built better than a stick built but not most of FL.
Remember, in FL, a huge percentage of homes are concrete block. That's because MOST termites cant eat that stuff while a wooden structure is dessert.
Concrete block stands up better to wind than stick built.
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