FEMA homes sit empty, get ruined by weather

[KBCraig]

I drive past these when I go to my favorite gun store. 

http://www.ktbs.com/news/local/4647291.html

FEMA emergency homes destroyed by the elements in Texarkana

Hundreds of modular homes meant for hurricane victims were damaged beyond repair while they sat unused and unprotected from the weather near Texarkana, a report from a federal inspector general said.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said the homes sat unused for months at Red River Army Depot in Hooks because of restrictions on where such homes could be placed.

FEMA bought the homes as emergency housing for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita last year.

About 1,800 were at the Red River depot in Hooks in June. At least 250 are not salvageable, a FEMA spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The failure to protect the homes from the sun and rain while they were in storage was outlined in a report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general.

The inspector general said most of the homes appeared to have been protected by manufacturers' packaging, but in many other cases sun and rain ruined tarps and cardboard boxes, and the wood and other pieces warped.

FEMA put the total damage to the homes at Red River -- both salvageable and unsalvageable -- at $5 million.

Modular homes are made in large pieces in factories and can be assembled quickly. They cost an average of $36,000 each, FEMA said.

Several hundred of the homes were sent to Louisiana to provide teachers with temporary housing.

FEMA has been criticized for letting mobiles home sit unused while hurricane victims needed housing. Thousands of mobile homes have been sitting unused at the airport in nearby Hope, Ark.

[Pat K]

I  am just shocked.

[error]

I wasn't shocked at all.

I posted this FROM Concord right after yesterday's festivities...

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/13/fema-left-modular-homes-out-to-rot/

[Russell Kanning]

fema is a disaster

[error]

I thought natural things were disasters, and man-made things like FEMA were terrorist acts?

[KBCraig]

I posted this FROM Concord right after yesterday's festivities...

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/13/fema-left-modular-homes-out-to-rot/

http://forum.soulawakenings.com/index.php?topic=5723.60;topicseen[/quote]

Slight correction, error: they're not in Texarkana, Arkansas. They're at Red River Army Depot, which stretches between Texarkana, Texas, and New Boston, Texas. (To get really pedantic, they're between Hooks and New Boston, along the south side of US-82, shown here.)

[maineiac]

Fema stored tons of bagged ice in HUNDREDS of trucks for MONTHS somewhere around Portland. Incomprehensible!