Hurricane Milton

[Mark Reynolds]

I figured someone would have started this thread by now. I'm curious but not watching it. I thought it might be good to keep Milton separate from Helene.

 

[Ouachita]

...............I thought it might be good to keep Milton separate from Helene.

Yeah, we sure as heck don't want them gettin' together making baby hurricanes

 

[Mark Reynolds]

Yeah, we sure as heck don't want them gettin' together making baby hurricanes

I almost said something to that effect.

 

[kenny thomas]

I came home last night to clean up my damage from Helene. Found 1 steer an hour ago under a sycamore tree thats across my fence also. Several trees down.
We have 3 fuel trucks going to the area where Milton Is coming too.

 

[greybeard]

It appears that Tampa Bay itself may have dodged the bullet. I have friends there on another website that have 'reported in' this morning saying there's plenty of storm surge/wave damage right on the beach areas and some wind damage farther inland but for the most part it's not too bad as the storm went in farther South. Of course the electricity is out but that's to be expected.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I just read this on FB and didn't believe it so I googled it:
Other operations in the Carolinas are targeting rural areas, including the mountains to the east. Several groups are targeting small communities, or individual homes scattered just east of Asheville, NC, including a mountain area called Little Switzerland. It's about 20 miles NE of Asheville.

Read More: FEMA Sends Electric Chainsaws to Areas With No Power in Carolinas | https://newstalk870.am/fema-sends-e...olina/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

 

[Ouachita]

I almost said something to that effect.

Just imagine what their kids would look like.

 

[puzzled in oregon]

I have been told that FEMA also auctions off the prefab homes, that are meant for housing of
victims of fire, hurricanes etc. to the general public.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

I have been told that FEMA also auctions off the prefab homes, that are meant for housing of
victims of fire, hurricanes etc. to the general public.

I don't have time right now to look, but I believe you are "correct" (in part) with that statement. FEMA has/gets prefab homes for victims of fire and hurricanes, but these homes are 'temporary'. Once the victims move out of these temporary housing units, they become 'surplus' to be disposed of. FEMA is not set up to reuse and recycle materials that it acquires with each disaster. I suspect the cost of trying to do this would equal or even exceed the cost of writing off the materials used and just acquiring new materials and equipment with the next disaster.

Not that it can't be done, but management of such items really becomes a logistical nightmare, even for the federal government.

 

[puzzled in oregon]

I definitely don't know all the details. They sat stored at a costal town for quite sometime, got the impression they
were never used, decision was made to sell them. Relative got one to set up for a home.

 

[Ouachita]

I don't have time right now to look, but I believe you are "correct" (in part) with that statement. FEMA has/gets prefab homes for victims of fire and hurricanes, but these homes are 'temporary'. Once the victims move out of these temporary housing units, they become 'surplus' to be disposed of. FEMA is not set up to reuse and recycle materials that it acquires with each disaster. I suspect the cost of trying to do this would equal or even exceed the cost of writing off the materials used and just acquiring new materials and equipment with the next disaster.

Not that it can't be done, but management of such items really becomes a logistical nightmare, even for the federal government.

In 2009, we had a tornado go right through town. There we dozens of families living in FEMA mobile homes until they were able to rebuild or find another home. They did go to public auction a few years later. I had an employee at the time that bought one.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

I definitely don't know all the details. They sat stored at a costal town for quite sometime, got the impression they
were never used, decision was made to sell them. Relative got one to set up for a home.

This does happen also. If I recall correctly, there were housing type units (campers possibly?) that were secured by FEMA for victims of Hurricane Katrina that were never used. I think I saw a news story about it. I don't believe I have ever heard the final disposition of these units. You may very well be posting about them here.

Mis-steps get made when rapid responses are made. Even when things are slower and checks and balances can be more carefully observed. The mis-steps that are made tend to get sensationalized and for every mis-step there are a great number of things that go right. Nothing will ever be perfect. What we can do is do the best we can at the given time, evaluate what went right and what went wrong after the fact, and apply lessons learned in the next incident, which has different and new challenges that weren't encountered in the past.

 

[puzzled in oregon]

These were on the west coast, probably not cost effective to haul them back and forth form
coast to coast. Hopefully Americans benefited from this.

 

[Brute 23]

I've seen a few trailer houses get moved... it is not pretty... and it is quite dangerous for every one. No way I would want to move them very far.

 

[GoWyo]

These were on the west coast, probably not cost effective to haul them back and forth form
coast to coast. Hopefully Americans benefited from this.

If they just sit around, mice and rats infest them and they become worthless, so may as well get them sold and put to use once the crisis is over.