CHICAGO, IL, July 04, 2010
/24-7PressRelease/ -- Hurricane season is upon us and analysts are predicting a particularly active season.
This year hurricanes named Alex, Bonnie and Colin could bring injury and damage to homeowners along the eastern seaboard and in Gulf states. Researchers at Colorado State University predict that the 2010 season will bring 18 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and five major hurricanes. They put the chance of a major hurricane will batter the U.S. coast at 76 percent. That can be compared to an average chance of just 52 percent for the past century.
Such severe weather events are frequently accompanied by media reports showing overturned "mobile homes," giving a false impression that manufactured homes aren't able to withstand high winds.
"The homes we frequently see overturned in media reports were typically those built before the modern federal HUD codes went into effect that regulate today's manufactured homes." says industry veteran Tony Kovach, who is also the publisher of Manufactured Home Marketing Sales Management (www.mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com/) industry trade magazine. "We have to make a distinction between a mobile homes, built before June 15, 1976 and modern manufactured homes built since that date. Modern manufactured homes meet or often exceed site-built home standards and perform even better in severe weather events."
Research supports Kovach's statement.
According to Hurricane Survivability for Manufactured Housing: A Case Study in Disaster Mitigation for Low-Income Housing by K.R. Grosskopf, Ph.D. of 152 manufactured home communities and 29,274 manufactured homes surveyed after the 2004 Florida hurricanes, none of the 4,056 manufactured housing units constructed after the 1994 U.S. Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standard were destroyed or seriously damaged.
"Part of this is because the HUD code requires modern manufactured homes to be built to wind zones," Kovach adds. "Manufactured housing in coastal Florida are in wind zone III, for example, which means they must be built to withstand winds of at least 110 mph."
For more details, go to: http://www.mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com/
Note to media: http://www.mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com staff and Industry experts are available to discuss issues related to modular, prefab and manufactured housing, the federal HUD code for Manufactured Housing and other factory built housing topics. Call us at 847-730-3692.
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