There are, of course, acres of FEMA trailers in Mississippi. A family passed us on the Interstate yesterday towing 1 & commented to Ronnie that there are no holding tanks, only a few, very small windows so in addition to no light, you couldn't get out of the trailer in the event of a fire between you & door (a personal fear of mine), most (maybe all) have a Formaldehyde problem that poses a potential health risk, and finally, they are the ultimate cheaply made, ugly, white box !!! All that negative said, they WERE Godsends after Katrina for people who lost their homes not only across the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast but for several hundred miles into our interior (New Orleans got the publicity & celebrity money -- Mississippi got destroyed). I always thought the best use for them would have been to ship them to Haiti following their disasters or some other country for use in refugee camps (cheaper than foreign aid I would think) but FEMA in its dubious wisdom prefers to sell them for less than it paid to have them delivered and we'll find them -- or what's left as they inevitably fall apart -- littering our landscapes and campgrounds for years.
Anne
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