Requiring NWR in Mobile Homes

[Terry Tyler]

Manufactured home makers don't spend money on guided missiles - so your last point isn't involved here...

sorry...i believed it was a government bill payed for by the governent...IMO better for domestic spending then war funding...then again, no politics involved in ST so, i apologize...

 

[Joel Taylor]

Do we really have to have laws for everything? I have always been huge on personal responsibility and think laws like this are waaaaaay over the top. The government is getting to the point where they are trying to protect us from anything and everything. They need to stop wasting time on stuff like this and start working on correcting some of the big issues and problem's they've caused over the years.

On a side note, stuff like this should really worry those of you who think that stormchasing may some day be made illegal. As we continue down the road of more and more control to protect us from ourselves, it may only be a matter of time. I have no idea how they would ever inforce it, but it only takes one person to get a silly idea in their head and eventually it could be on paper. I can just imagine Senator X standing up and proudly announcing "(Insert deceased stormchaser's name here)'s Law will really help us control the danger and risks surrounding these violent storms, and prevent anyone else from getting unnecessarily killed".

 

[Michael O'Keeffe]

I can see something like that happening to. How would you enforce something like that though, we could just chase ingonito. Then to protest we could have a HUGE chaser convergence in front of the white house.

Anyway, I think all we can do is just keep advertising and encouraging people to buy NWR. You can't force anybody to do anything at least that's what I thought America was supposed to be like. It's the owners choice if they want to buy that or not. I don't think we could twist people's arms and tell them you need a NWR.

 

[MatthewCarman]

Do many folks really believe that this is THE answer, though? I know it isn't perfect, and I certainly don't believe it'll prevent all unnecessary deaths in mobile homes. However, I do think it's a STEP that may very well save SOME lives. Again, I don't think it'll prevent unnecessary deaths altogether, but it's a step that may very well save a family or two down the road. I just can't see how it'll hurt. Sure, some folks will turn them off, but even if only 20% of the folks program them and use them, that's still better than before (out of those who otherwise wouldn't have had them).

I agree and I am sure many people would like to own one but cant afford one or dont know where to look. Even if all this does is save 1 persons life then it is worth it. It is nice to know someone cares about saving lives and this will help.

 

[rdale]

If they couldn't afford one before this won't help - the price of their home just went up $50 (at least).

 

[Jeremy Miller]

I think that the key to getting the public to understand the benefit of NWR SAME all hazards is education. Educate people in the trailer parks. If possible have Emergency Management and represenitives from NWS host community meetings with the public and teach them about severe weather, the dangers of mobile homes during not only tornadoes but in non-tornadic severe thunderstorms. Inform them of what damage can be done to a trailer should a tornado or straight lined winds and/or downburst occur. Lastly, have a question/answer session. Then hopefully people will have a better understanding of the risk associated with living in a trailer should tornado or other damaging wind event occur, and that NWR SAME could provide adequette lead time warning to take action to protect the life of themselfs and family. Now, all the lead time warning probably won't help much if there is no substantial shelter to take cover in. It would be nice to see trailer parks in the more at risk areas, have a designated shelter that folks in the park can head to after recieving a warning over NWR SAME.

As far as people removing the battery or power source, I think once people are educated that the newer models can be, as previous posters said, pre-set to only activate for the specific warnings that you select and only for the area that you select, thus eliminating being waken up for a warning half-way across the county warning area. As far as smoke detectors, more and more smoke detectors are becoming hard-wired so disconnecting the power is impossible without shutting power down to the entire living space.

Unless that is the way its intended with NWR SAME. To make it hard-wired
with battery back-up. So it cannot be turned off or switched off. Not sure if that can be done legally. I know its done with some residential homes and all appartment buildings and other muiltple resident dwellings.

Time will tell how this plays out. Again, I believe the key here is public education. Knowledge is power.

Take care,
Jeremy Miller
Cortland, NY