I don't get it. It reads like this:
FEMA spent $2.7 billion to buy 145,000 mobile homes and trailers after Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in August and September 2005, paying a bulk-rate price of about $19,000 per trailer, on average.
I do the math and come up with only 27,550000 but then I did it in my head so I could be wrong. WTF
$18620.69 per trailer
2.7 bil / 145,000 = $18,620.68 per unit.
Edit... Panic rounded up, I rounded down.
I don't get it. It reads like this:
FEMA spent $2.7 billion to buy 145,000 mobile homes and trailers after Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in August and September 2005, paying a bulk-rate price of about $19,000 per trailer, on average.
I do the math and come up with only 27,550000 but then I did it in my head so I could be wrong. WTF
$19,000 x 145,000 is $2,755,000,000
so how many is everyone buying???
Bet those things are a complete mess inside.
So for about 5 million you could have a whole new Park Moabi!!!!
145000 trailers HMMM!
Tornado Bait
They really aren't worth buying even at a cut rate price. Don't get me wrong, I was grateful for my unit they set me up in and made life easier while I fixed my house. My FEMA trailer didn't have any fresh water tanks or sewage tanks. No water pumps at all. They were made to hook up to places that have sewage , electric, and fresh water service. So they wouldn't be good for camping. Aside from that, they put those units together so fast to keep up with the surge in demand that they cut a lot of corners when building them. I'm suprised, I was in a 32 foot Fleetwood and I had less issues in mine than a lot of other people I know. Mine leaked real bad in a hard rain. But started to fall apart after a while. A buddy of mine was suprised when he came home from work only to find out that they didn't glue any of the PVC joints together on the water supply system and was flooded out of his trailer. Not to mention the gas leak he had in the propane system.
Bottom line, save your money.
Jay
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