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It's more or less a nonstarter in tornado-prone areas. From https://www.weather.gov/jan/swpw_mhsafety https://www.weather.gov/jan/swpw_mhsafety : > Mobile hom

It's more or less a nonstarter in tornado-prone areas. From https://www.weather.gov/jan/swpw_mhsafety https://www.weather.gov/jan/swpw_mhsafety : > Mobile homes are not a safe shelter when tornadoes threaten. NOAA and FEMA recommend that mobile and manufactured home residents flee their homes for sturdier shelter before storms with tornadoes hit. On average, a total of 72 percent of all tornado-related fatalities are in homes and 54 percent of those fatalities are in mobile homes. I don't know the percentage of people who live in mobile homes, but I'm sure it's nowhere close to 54%.

thrown_22 4y ago
On the other hand in fire prone areas I'd want something I can drive out.
- mdp2021 4y ago
  Nowadays, in more than just some areas you'll want something you can drive out. (I was thinking of the risk of civic or general quality degradation of the area (unrestrained emergent actors, general emergent pollution), but also climate issues can be important today - some of us tried to spend the current Summer in altitude as much as possible, as the plains were in dire conditions.)
  - thrown_22 4y ago
    Yeah, my holiday plans are more like refugee plans these days. Find an area not currently experiencing some type of disaster and unlikely to for the next x months. Visit until normalcy returns. I missed basically all of covid by judiciously running away whenever a lockdown or mass infections were about to happen. Looking at people who didn't, man they've gotten weird and mean.
em-bee 4y ago
it's not the percentage of people living in mobile homes but fatalities in mobile homes during a tornado. it could well mean that noone survives a tornado in a mobile home
NavinF 4y ago
That must suck for the 0.00002388059% of people who die every year from tornadoes in the US. I can't imagine living such a boring risk-free life that I'd care about such unlikely scenarios. For comparison, driving is something like 0.0117% fatalities/yr

thrown_22 4y ago

On the other hand in fire prone areas I'd want something I can drive out.

mdp2021 4y ago
Nowadays, in more than just some areas you'll want something you can drive out. (I was thinking of the risk of civic or general quality degradation of the area (unrestrained emergent actors, general emergent pollution), but also climate issues can be important today - some of us tried to spend the current Summer in altitude as much as possible, as the plains were in dire conditions.)
- thrown_22 4y ago
  Yeah, my holiday plans are more like refugee plans these days. Find an area not currently experiencing some type of disaster and unlikely to for the next x months. Visit until normalcy returns. I missed basically all of covid by judiciously running away whenever a lockdown or mass infections were about to happen. Looking at people who didn't, man they've gotten weird and mean.

em-bee 4y ago

it's not the percentage of people living in mobile homes but fatalities in mobile homes during a tornado. it could well mean that noone survives a tornado in a mobile home

NavinF 4y ago

That must suck for the 0.00002388059% of people who die every year from tornadoes in the US. I can't imagine living such a boring risk-free life that I'd care about such unlikely scenarios. For comparison, driving is something like 0.0117% fatalities/yr