There’s this SF novel (Greg Bear?) about how in the near future the entire US population lives in trailers on the US interstate, on the run from the US government, which is trying to tax them all into poverty, so they won’t burn up the rapidly dwindling (non-US) oil.

Not a satire, he makes it sound believable. Kinda like this.

Wait a minute… don’t tornadoes seem to always hit trailer parks?

Damn, wobblie, you beat me to it.

Nothing says “Tornadoes, please!” like a parking lot full of trailers.

This should go over like a…tornado through a trailer park.

‘Cuz, y’know, the first place I’d feel safe after losing my home to a killer twister is a TRAILER!

@liltotes: The photo on Greg’s link illustrates what that might look like.

@wobblie: My thoughts exactly. Why not also give highly-flammable wooden structures to those who lost their homes in the CA wildfires?

FEMA trailers … now with Formaldehyde!

WTF, lose some to this year’s tornado season? We have plenty more!!

As part of an effort to rebuild her tarnished public image, Britney Spears has announced that she will be the new spokesperson for FEMA’s emergency housing program in the tornado stricken South, the home of her once-innocent youth.

Spears, in a statement released through her business manager, said in defense of the Administration’s program in which surplus mobile and modular homes would be placed in an area where such structures are routinely destroyed by tornadoes, “Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.”

A text message from Spears’ management said she and her pregnant younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears are in talks to share a FEMA trailer in their home state of Louisiana.

A FEMA spokesman who declined to state his name for the record said the agency knew nothing of Spears’ supposed role in publicizing the emergency housing program, or whether the Spears sisters had applied for such housing.

redman,
please tell me you made that up. please.

@Redmanlaw: Reminds me of the old riddle: What do a hurricane in Florida, a tornado in Kansas and a divorce in Louisiana have in common? Someone somewhere is going to lose themselves a trailer.

@Blogenfreude: When I saw the headline, I totally thought that’s where it was going: “The first cases of lung cancer caused by exposure to formaldehyde have cropped up among Katrina survivors. Luckily, they were underprivileged to begin with, so this is working out very well for them.”

wobblie, pedo, whaster - heck - everyone thought of the exact same thing as I did. Except you did so while the joke was still funny. Let’s see….

Well, this should be a step up for the Arkies, right?

*crickets*

From the MSNBC article: “Hope [Ark.] has the largest stockpile of FEMA trailers, while others are stored at Selma, Ala.; Madison, Ind.; Cumberland and Frostburg, Md.; Carnes and Purvis, Miss.; Edison, N.J.; Jasper and Texarkana, Texas; and Fort Pickett, Va.”

Two questions:
(1) Would we be sad if the tornado magnet that always finds trailers hits any of those towns? I guess Jasper has found a way to be known for something besides the gruesome and barbaric dragging death of a black man.
(2) Is the storage of FEMA trailers in Hope, Arkansas (a) some sort of Bush Administration “fuck you” to Bill Clinton, or (b) some vestige of a Clinton-era earmark/boondoggle? I can’t decide.

@Blogenfreude: Oh, no, not if they’re properly ventilated…which in FEMA’s world means air conditioner on and all the windows open. They’ve told their own employees not to enter stored trailers. I’ve got no snark.

That photo looks too much like a bunch of caskets just unloaded onto the tarmac.

I think the one in the lower right corner is going to be the new Governor’s Mansion.