Speaking of FEMA trailers......

[TR6BILL]

I read in the Baton Rouge <span style="font-style: italic">Sunday Advocate</span> where FEMA is "storing" hundreds of new Katrina trailers at a cost of over $2,000,000.00 per year, all to be scraped! Makes you sick, and you don't even have to breath the formaldehyde!

www.2theadvocate.com/news/34534014.html

 

[NutmegCT]

Yep - makes you kinda sick all right - just reading about it!

FEMA's stepped up a notch or two since Katrina ... but "Heck of a job Brownie" is now a term used to described just about any ridiculous massive failure of leadership.

argh.

Tom

 

[tony barnhill]

Heck, that reporter doesn't know the half of it.....just drive south on the interstate through Hattiesburg, MS & get off at the Purvis exit...you'll see a huge field of new trailers that have been sitting there since Katrina - they never got used - they're brand new! In a separate section of the huge field are where a few trailers were brought back from the coast after the were not needed, but most are new trailers just sitting there!

 

[GregW]

Of course, as soon as they're all scrapped, a Cat 5 will hit. Then everyone will be saying "What do you mean they're gone!"

 

[TR6BILL]

There's more to it even. I have a friend in the trailer manufacturing business. He has the ability to mass produce a large number, if the need be. He could make one of the small travel trailers, the vast majority of the type FEMA bought, for about $14K and make a handsome profit. FEMA wouldn't give him at shot at the bidding process. Instead, they <span style="font-style: italic">gave</span> the contract to a "connected" manufacturer up in Arkansas (and other areas) at a cost of $77K apiece.

Plus, another friend (our local Sheriff) bought one from FEMA for use on a new gun range (not as a target) at a reasonable price (free). He did, however, have to pay to have it "shipped" from the storage location to our area. Shipping consisted of having to use FEMA's designated shipping company. This consisted of some redneck with a 3/4 ton pickup pulling it. FEMA-mandated fee: $1,200.00.

 

[tony barnhill]

This consisted of some redneck with a 3/4 ton pickup pulling it. FEMA-mandated fee: $1,200.00.

That was the method of delivering them from the factory to all those huge plots of land were they were staged back when Katrina happened...around here, you'd see caravans of rednecks in new trucks hauling trailers south....I know a guy who bought a big new truck & paid for it hauling those trailers - in about 1 month!

 

[Randi]

of course I called the recreational dealer & salvage yard Commission since I had to renew my licenses anyway & they are scrapping the Formaldhyde containing trailers which they assure me can't be lived in but would make a FINE office- no word on cost & they seem to think it is limited sale of the poisonus trailers here in Louisiana. If it goes to salvage auction it will be a bidding situation- but get a" scrap only title" and you must sign a disclosure proving you know the situation & cannot resale in any way.

 

[tomshobby]

And to think that not even one person is going to jail!!

 

[roofman]

Earlier this year when driving my new to me Mini home from Oaklahoma I came up 59 through Mississippi. Along that rout near Laurel Mississippi there were thousands of these trailers parked in masse that could be seen from the highway. What a waste of money.

 

[tony barnhill]

Earlier this year when driving my new to me Mini home from Oaklahoma I came up 59 through Mississippi. Along that rout near Laurel Mississippi there were thousands of these trailers parked in masse that could be seen from the highway. What a waste of money.

Yep, those are the ones I'm talking about...at the Purvis exit right south of Hattiesburg - west side of interstate.....& what do you think the guy is charging the gov't for monthly rent on his 100 acres?

 

[ecurie_ecosse]

As it is a FEMA thing,I'm sure it will be some astronomical amount.And we taxpayers have no say in that.

But,Tony,if you know,do tell.

Stuart.