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When's the auction for FEMA Trailors?
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| dirt farmer 2006-02-25, 11:21 pm |
| > FEMA was in the process of providing two kinds of trailers for N.O.
> and the surrounding area.
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Are the units on towable trailors? Can I back my truck up to one, hook it up
and tow one out of there? If so, when's the auction? I'll take two please.
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| larry 2006-02-26, 12:21 am |
| dirt farmer wrote:
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> Are the units on towable trailors? Can I back my truck up to one, hook it up
> and tow one out of there? If so, when's the auction? I'll take two please.
According to the national news reports, FEMA will pay to
have them cut up and removed. They are mired in mud and the
frames are bent beyond repair.
Folks, pay attention! We as a country are going to be in
bad shape if we succeed in moving all emergency services
to/under government control. I served as a volunteer
fireman in my younger years and I'm appalled to see what now
passes as firefighting. In the past year I have seen minor
house fires that became total loses while the paperwork and
protocol was completed before the first hose was pulled off
the truck. $3000 for a residential fire suppression
sprinkler system is a damn good investment around here.
-larry / dallas
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| The travel trailers can be hitched up and towed away, but I don't
think there are any of these "available". The slightly larger
trailers didn't seem to have wheels, despite the name trailer.
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 03:31:33 GMT, larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
> around here.
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>-larry / dallas
I wasn't intending this to be about politics, only about trailer
technology.
But since a couple people complained so much about the whole levee
notion, let me remind everyone that although these other places are
not below absolute sea level, there are many places that are below
flood level and depend on levees.
This includes downtown Dallas, downtown Indianapolis, and probably
lots of cities I haven't been to. (I've seen the Dallas and Indy
levees with my own eyes. I konw what kind of flloding there was in
Indy periodically before the levees were build, and would be again if
one failed.)
Also in most places all along the Mississippi, and many places along
the, Ohio, Missouri and probably other rivers. Also, Swartzennegger
pointed out today on TV that there are loads of levees in California
and many were built more than 100 years ago by farmers, and no one
knows what they were built with.
Plus Chicago's first floor may be above the level of the lake and the
Chicago river, but its basements aren't.
These are only the levees and flooding issues I I know about. I'm
sure there are many many more. No one stops people from living in
these places that will flood if the levees break.
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| Goedjn 2006-02-27, 2:21 pm |
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>These are only the levees and flooding issues I I know about. I'm
>sure there are many many more. No one stops people from living in
>these places that will flood if the levees break.
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It's not that people live below sea-level that pisses me off.
It's that I'm expected to pay for it.
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| Frank Boettcher 2006-02-27, 6:21 pm |
| On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:47:07 -0800, dirt farmer <dirt@myfarm.net>
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>Are the units on towable trailors? Can I back my truck up to one, hook it up
>and tow one out of there? If so, when's the auction? I'll take two please.
The trailers that were initially supplied by FEMA were actual travel
trailers that they bought from dealers and are meant to be towed as a
way of life.
The second wave of trailers are trailers that were made to FEMA's
specifications. They are not nearly as well made and I think will
fall apart if they are moved very far. They were meant to be put in
place and provide a home in that one spot until no longer needed.
They don't have waste holding tanks and are only meant to be hooked up
to city sewage lines or a homeowners septic system.
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| On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:25:32 -0600, Frank Boettcher
<fboettcher@comcast.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:47:07 -0800, dirt farmer <dirt@myfarm.net>
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>The trailers that were initially supplied by FEMA were actual travel
>trailers that they bought from dealers and are meant to be towed as a
>way of life.
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>The second wave of trailers are trailers that were made to FEMA's
>specifications. They are not nearly as well made and I think will
>fall apart if they are moved very far. They were meant to be put in
>place and provide a home in that one spot until no longer needed.
>They don't have waste holding tanks and are only meant to be hooked up
>to city sewage lines or a homeowners septic system.
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Thanks for the details. Nothing I saw included this.
Although if one can't hook up the trailer, there is a chance the
toilet in the house might work, and if it doesn't, one could get a
chemical toilet and use that.
There may have been a lot of places below the flood plain where sewer
hookups were impossible, but that's true above the floodplain also.
So far it sounds to me like FEMA should have waived its rule against
this second wave of trailers beting set up below the flood plain on
people's own plots of land. Instead of letting them rot in storage.
I"M not trying to blame one political party here, just a) bureaucracy,
and b) the desire of many people to make rules and enforce them even
in atypical situations. There are times when rules should be changed
permanently, and situations when they should be waived.
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| On 27 Feb 2006 15:02:04 -0800, "hallerb@aol.com" <hallerb@aol.com>
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>FEMA has made some changes!
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>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45595
This is pretty informative. Thanks.
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| On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:22:05 -0500, Goedjn <prose@mail.uri.edu> wrote:
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>It's not that people live below sea-level that pisses me off.
>It's that I'm expected to pay for it.
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But you pay for it in those other cass of repeated flooding and levee
failing too.
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