If you find yourself in the path of a major storm during the peak turbulent weather season, you might be better off in a manufactured home (MH) than in your bathtub or basement or stick-built home. While conventional wisdom has long held that “mobile homes” are dangerous during such storms, that applies to homes built before June 15, 1976, the date the Department of Housing and Urban Development began regulating their production, and called them manufactured homes.

As L. A. “Tony” Kovach, publisher of MHLivingNews and MHProNews, points out, according to prweb, the safety of manufactured homes during a storm has increased over the years to the point that MH produced after 1999, when tougher standards relating to tie-downs and installation were implemented, can resist higher winds than a comparable stick-built home.

With winds reaching 150 mph, in Aug. of 2004, Hurricane Charley tore through Florida. Many MH residents headed for shelters, only to find out their modern MH sustained the winds better in some cases than the shelters to which they had fled.

A video records their first hand accounts of what they found upon their return. As of 2:14 PM ET today, per statistics from PRWeb, 25,373 in the mainstream media have been exposed to this MHLivingNews featured video. ##

(Photo credit: wikipedia–service station damaged by Hurricane Charley, Kissimmee, Fla.)

Article submitted by Matthew J. Silver to Daily Business News-MHProNews.