100 FEMA Homes Sit Empty in TN at Tornado area

Sad but true, this article in the local Gallatin News Examiner.


The homes have been sitting at this manufacturer's site for some time, 100 in all. My guess is, since the "parking lot" of FEMA homes were discovered, as in North Carolina where there were, as of February, 509 stranded, and Arkansas which stored 10,000 as of early March,  Mississippi or wherever that other mass of homes was discovered recently.  

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It could be that FEMA is recognizing, as in this article (irony here, folks) that more homes are inhabitable than they had orignially thought.


To give one an idea of the magnitude of the housing need crisis in the Katrina-Rita regions, according to , this Atlanta-based real estate company, as of Dec., "To date, FEMA has received more than 512,000 applications in Mississippi and another two million applications from Alabama, Louisiana and Texas victims from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."


FEMA's recent action, permitting homes in flood plains to be constructed, but on 3'higher elevations, may cost HOMEOWNERS at least $40,000, according to this recent CNN Analysis article.


Government Waste:  just one more reinforcement that yes, George Bush truly is the "War President" and not the Business School Success Story he painted himself to be!  (Or any other success story for that matter!)


The ultimate irony of this is, that very manufactured home contractor was within FEET of being struck by the F3 Tornados that ripped through Middle Tennessee earlier this month...


Our tax dollars at work.


Thanks skeletor, thanks shrub!