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NEWTON, Iowa (WOI) - Jasper County has been hit with two tornadoes so far this year.
Both times, people in the Sunrise Terrace mobile home park in Newton have used a storm shelter to stay safe.
But now, management says the shelter is closing, leaving people with few options.
Residents have not been told why the storm shelter is closing, so many people are frustrated and concerned about the next round of severe weather.
According to Iowa Code in Newton, mobile home parks are required to provide storm shelter facilities.
Leaders with Jasper County Emergency Management say they just recently heard about the closure, and are working on a...
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Classic lie:
Trailers do give a unique issue when it comes to severe weather because they’re just not built to withstand even 70 mile an hour winds, we usually see those flip or start to come apart pretty easily.
Wow, somebody needs to get a hold of HUD because a mobile home going down the highway already has winds of 55 mph to start with and, if it’s going into a headwind of 30 mph, then it’s facing 85 mph winds and will apparently “come apart pretty easily”. I guess HUD needs to require mobile homes to be shipped only at 30 mph and on perfectly calm days!
The truth is that mobile homes are built perfectly fine and do about as well as stick-built homes in a tornado – they both get shredded. I live in the Missouri Ozarks and I have seen first-hand tornado damage and when a 200 mph wind hits a brick house it’s pulverized. Everything is.
COMMON SENSE MISTAKE: THINKING THAT ANYTHING CAN WITHSTAND A TORNADO – IT CAN’T.