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Should trailer parks / trailer owners be required to have a storm shelter

Yes or No to tornado shelter requirements for trailer parks and trailer owners


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voyager1

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Would you support a law in your state if it gets frequent tornadoes for this. Obviously states in tornado alley are the ones with tornadoes mostly.
 
Everyone knows that trailers attract tornados anyway. Perhaps a community storm shelter but not an individual one as trailers are by nature mobile.
 
Would you support a law in your state if it gets frequent tornadoes for this. Obviously states in tornado alley are the ones with tornadoes mostly.

I think they should be able to park their trailers anywhere that they own one full acre and give the World the numero uno single digit salute.
 
I think they should be able to park their trailers anywhere that they own one full acre and give the World the numero uno single digit salute.

A lot of people in trailers don't have an acre of land.
 
Would you support a law in your state if it gets frequent tornadoes for this. Obviously states in tornado alley are the ones with tornadoes mostly.

Trailer parks are like tornado magnets...
 
Requiring trailer parks in tornado zones to have them wouldn't be the worst thing. I don't think it makes sense to require individual trailer owners to have them because as others have said, they are mobile.
 
You could consider something similar here...cheap river front land that floods frequently...but plenty of trailer parks are set up on that land.

Should every person renting or living there have to pay for flood insurance? Or...because of the crazy risk...be denied such insurance?
 
Yeah, sounds like a sound law.
 
Would you support a law in your state if it gets frequent tornadoes for this. Obviously states in tornado alley are the ones with tornadoes mostly.

People living in trailers for the most part, probably don't have thousands of dollars to drop because other people decided they had to have one. And I doubt you'd convince the general public to build shelters. Who is going to pay for these shelters?
 
People living in trailers for the most part, probably don't have thousands of dollars to drop because other people decided they had to have one. And I doubt you'd convince the general public to build shelters. Who is going to pay for these shelters?

I agree at the individual level but the park owner could invest in them. Landlords/property owners do have many obligations to safety.

And many communities also do pay for and build shelters but people have to have enough notice...and mobility...to get to them.
 
I do not think individuals should be required to have them. I could support a law that required a trailer park with over a certain number of units not on block foundations or some number of residents to have a shelter even if it is just the basement of the office. When a tornado is coming, you do not always have time to get in your car and drive somewhere. Tornadoes form and disappear fast in our area anyway, so you might only have a couple minutes warning at best when one forms.
 
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