LisaWL7TR
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I am a little surprised growing up in The Florida Panhandle and Hurricanes that the wind zone rate is lower than California.You are most welcome.
Yes, all mobile homes are wind zone rated depending on where the homes will be placed.
In the Albany area it would be rated as Wind-Zone One.
If the home was being placed on the east coast of Georgia or Florida or on the gulf it would be rated Wind Zone Two and mobile homes placed in California must meet Wind Zone Three standards.
The higher the wind zone rating the heavier the mobile home will be due to added wood and other material to make it more structurally sound depending on the area it will be placed.
I am glad you had to never test it either. However even with all of the homes completely lost which I think was a total of over 250 homes in the Albany area and over 440 of them being severely damaged the loss of life could have been much worse.
I wouldn't even rate the Green home as severely damaged although it will be totaled due to the frame being bent when it was pushed over to the front side of the home by the high winds yet didnt rip apart other than the ridge cap coming off of the roof line which opened the two sides up but even both sides of the mobile home are not that far apart from each other and the entire mobile home is still in the same place where it sat before the tornado hit.
My relatives in MS less than 2 years ago were hit by a Tornado. The damage was approximate to the home being shown as the home where it was said the two year old was when the Tornado hit. Thankfully no one was hurt nor went missing. It was devastating to the family home that day.
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