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  • Bill would require weather radios in mobile homes

    06/21/2007 5:47:50 PM PDT · by P-40 · 55 replies · 1,089+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 6/21/2007 | AP
    WASHINGTON -- A Fort Worth congresswoman wants manufactured and mobile homes to come equipped with weather radios. Congresswoman Kay Granger's proposal comes after this week's deaths of at least six people in flooding in North Texas. The Fort Worth Republican is co-sponsoring legislation requiring that every manufactured home be supplied with a weather radio. The radio would automatically carry emergency broadcasts of the National Weather Service. The requirement would be part of the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards. The bill is named after CJ Martin, a two-year-old boy killed in a 2005 tornado. His mother helped get a...
  • Mobile homes coexist with pricey houses, a trend suburbs support

    03/31/2003 10:25:28 AM PST · by Willie Green · 30 replies · 134+ views
    Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | March 30, 2003 | Larry Werner
    <p>In a late-winter afternoon, when the temperature was flirting with spring, Michelle Smithson took her three kids for a walk on the trail that separates North Creek Mobile Home Community from Harris Acres, a development of $300,000 houses on the east side of Lakeville.</p>