A Surprising Storm Shelter: Today’s Manufactured Home

Award-winning consumer reporter Jan Hollingsworth explains how new high winds research and lessons learned from recent hurricanes and tornadoes are shattering myths about which homes are best equipped to weather violent storms.

October 15, 2015 /MarketersMedia/ —

LAKELAND, FL. October 10, 2015 – The weather man has issued a storm warning. A tornado is coming. For those living in a manufactured home, the two conventional safety plan methods are to go to the nearest roadside ditch and lay flat, or run to a neighbor’s sturdy site-built home and take cover there.
But Dr. Tim Reinhold’sexpert view is different. Properly installed, “That box is going to be built better than any site-built home,” says Reinhold, Senior Vice President of Research and Chief Engineer for the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS).

Award-winning consumer reporter Jan Hollingsworth explains how new high winds research and lessons learned from recent hurricanes and tornadoes are shattering myths about which homes are best equipped to weather violent storms.
Weathering the Storms: How Manufactured Homes Can Do It Better takes readers to a video of a man-made wind tunnel in South Carolina.There engineers tested a theory born in the debris of Hurricane Charley: Improperly installed carports and other add-on structures are primary weak links that lead to damage to the manufactured home itself.

Charley’s aftermath also revealed differences in how well wind Zone I, Zone II and Zone III manufactured homes fared — and the important implications for Tornado Alley in the nation’s mid-section, where the rising frequency and intensity of deadly twisters is driving the creation of more stringent construction codes for conventional site-built homes. Factory-built Zone III homes already meet or exceed the proposed new standards.
When it comes to larger tornadoes — EF3 or greater — the safest place to be is underground.
Fortunately, 93 percent of tornadoes are EF2 or below, and a well-built, well-anchored modern manufactured home has proved able to meet the challenge.

Weathering the Stormsaddresses the measures homeowners can taketo fortify their manufactured homes, how to identify weaknesses that pose a threat and important insights into how to make a better box even better for everyone.

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