Pick a Different State to Live In

I saw an article on cnn.com a while back regarding some storms that ripped through the Midwest. The picture, under the headline that read "STORMS TEAR THROUGH MIDWEST," was of a manufactured home. I deal with home buyers on a daily basis. Some want a trailer to live in (not sure why), and well, this story sort of got me going.

The absolute farthest thing from my mind is to own a manufactured home. What is FURTHER from my mind is to move to tornado alley. What, then, would be an absolute travesty is to bring these two things together, owning a mobile home in tornado alley. PSSSSSTTTTTTT...residents of the ENTIRE STATE of Oklahoma. Double wide trailers fly as far as the skimpy single wides when winds approach 300 MPH. DO NOT USE your insurance money from the "last tornado" and GET ANOTHER TRAILER! My advice...take that money and MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE! I do not find it sad when, after a tornado rips through ONLY A TRAILER PARK and people are crying and looking for their screen door, stumbling around incoherent and they look into the camera and start a sentence like, "I remember when this happened the last time...." What the hell? Are you stupid Forrest Gump?

The vortex of a tornado is magnetically attracted to the metal skirting around mobile homes. That has been proven time and time again. The last 2 trillion tornadoes that have hit, well, ANYWHERE have destroyed a mobile home park. It is usually all over the news."Today in Hickville, Okleehoma, a tornado ripped through a trailer park..." blah blah blah...now, insert stumbling old ladies in nightgowns and faces smeared with mud, saying something like, "WHERE IS MY KITTY???? HERE KITTY KITTY KITTY..."I can guarantee since the roof of your house blew by at around 6000 miles an hour, your 4-pound ball of fur is somewhere around Kentucky by now.