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*lol*
Your choices were:
1: Say something interesting/funny.
2: GTFO
You failed. Go back to ICHC please, don’t bring the stupid here.
Your choices were:
1. Say something interesting/funny.
2. Be an a$$.
3. Ignore the comment which for some reason you were bothered by.
You failed. Go back to ICHC please, don’t bring your petty, a$$ hole ways here..
Please explain how you are any better. (I am not claiming I am.)
Everyone but me is wrong.
You’re so full of fail…
what happened to this site? it used to be all about the fail…now it’s just FIRST FIRST FIRST UR GAY FIRST FIRST FIRST OHOHOHO IM AMAZING LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!1!!!1!!!!!11!!!
losers
it’s a blog, that’s what happens to blogs. get used to it.
At least he didn’t say “first.” Chill, k?
Oh, and good job on the copy/paste from the previous post.
At least he didn’t say “first.” Chill, k?
Oh, and good job on the copy/paste from the previous post.
At least he didn’t say “first.” Chill, k?
Oh, and good job on the copy/paste from the previous post.
Hee…Heee…..heee…. Lovin it!
At least he didn’t say “peepee.” Poopoo, k?
Oh, and good poopoo on the peepee/poopoo from the previous peepeepoopoo.
Snicker..Snicker…..Peepee poopoo…Hee..Hee…heh..heh.
Let me rephrase that: Good job on the copy/paste from the Walgreens Fail post.
*ICHCB
All the above is a fail.
Who’s gonna be 1st now?
hahahahahaha
ME IM FIRST I DONT CARE, I DONT CARE!! IM FIRST!!! YAY WOOT!! HAHAHA WEEEE!!
WTF is it? Is that really a flat bed truck carrying a complete house with double garage?
See the wheels underneath the center? This house was either already on wheels, like a trailer house, or put on them to be moved. They’re usually pulled by a semi over the roadways. It looks like they didn’t check the load zone on the bridge before they tried to cross it, and the house was too heavy for the bridge to support.
well, it’s a nice river front property, now
i’d live there. and i’d jump up and down in the living room.
Only men that don’t know how to hold their fire like to scream “first” to feel at least somehow superior … I think its a sad state of affairs if some here advertise their … *performance-standards* ;)))
But i really like the picture - makes me wonder why it still seems common to build a house and only AFTER it has been built drive it somewhere totally different. But this is probably me… stupid european upbringing…
That type of house is popular in certain parts of the US because of the fact that they’re very inexpensive to produce compared to “site-built” houses. The manufacturers are able to provide them at low cost by constructing them in a factory somewhere and then transporting them to the home site. Additionally, because of the temperate climates in the south (where they’re prevalent), the structure can be lightweight without worrying about the inhabitants freezing during winter months, which saves even more on production costs.
A lot of people think that the draw of the “mobile home” - now politely called a “manufactured home” or “prefab home” - is the mobility, but it’s not; the fact that they’re designed for moving from place to place is actually just a byproduct of the low-cost manufacturing process. Of course, it doesn’t *hurt* that you can take you house with you when you move, but it’s not really the main point. For the most part, once a “manufactured home” has been set up on a property, it tends to stay there until it falls apart (which happens much more rapidly than with a site-built home) - it’s not really exactly “common” to see them being transported from place to place unless they’re being delivered for the first time, as appears to be the case with this one (looks brand new).
The other time you’ll see entire houses being transported like this is if they’re historical buildings and are being moved somewhere for display or restoration, or if the land they’re on is being sold or otherwise threatened.
Because the US is so much geographically larger than western Europe and so much younger, we (a) have more room to “stretch out” in, and are less likely to live in multi-generational homes or high-rise apartment buildings, and (b) are less attached to all but the oldest buildings. When we get to be as populous and crowded as Europe is, and land is at a premium here as it is in many places there, you won’t see near so many “traveling houses.”
Actually, mobile homes tend to fall apart when the tornado hits. You see, for some reason, people living in this part of the country called “tornado alley” seem to think that living in a home on wheels with thin aluminum walls and no basement is a good idea. Then they wonder why their entire town gets wiped off the map as they wheel in replacement homes.
I doubt the “no basement” part has anything to do with it.
Some areas of the US (the Dallas area is one) have few buildings with basements because the high clay content in the soil would make short work of basement walls, not to mention the high water table. It’s so bad in some areas that houses are required to use peir-and-beam foundations because a slab foundation would start cracking before too long.
Yeah!
I think he’s trying to say “people who live in tornado alley should live in homes that have basements (so they have a place to seek shelter when a tornado touches down) and shouldn’t live in homes with thin aluminum walls (so their houses don’t get destroyed so easily).” I don’t think he’s blaming the destruction of mobile homes on their lack of basements.
I live in far West Texas, and there are probably less than 500 houses in this (fairly large - 1M population) town that have basements. There are kids in my son’s school (jr. high) who don’t even know what basements ARE.
You have got to be kidding me.
Please say you’re not serious.
PLEASE.
And yet, in 1991, the state of Kansas required mobile home parks to offer underground shelters to all residents. I guess they did that for the hell of it?
Man, you two are having the biggest communication fail I’ve seen in these comments yet. Or maybe it’s me…
Can you clarify pls? In your original post, were you saying
(a) “Mobile homes are destroyed by tornadoes because they don’t have basements; if they had basements, none would ever be damaged”
or
(b) “People who live in tornado-prone areas should have a home with a basement where they can seek shelter if one hits”
?
I’m willing to bet $50 that FortMax thought you were saying (a), (in which case s/he’d have a point - having or not having a basement isn’t a huge part of a house’s durability factor) but I think you meant (b).
He mentioned that it is stupid for people in Tornado alley to a) live in flimsy metal houses and b) live in houses without basements. I was simply saying in some areas, living in a house with a basement is not an option.
Where did tornadoes come into it?
I mean, you’re correct and all, but… or maybe I’m just reading your “Actually,…” wrong. It sounds like you’re trying to correct something but the bit about tornadoes is kind of apropos of nothing.
You do have to keep in mind, though, that for people with very low incomes, the affordability of mobile homes outweighs the risk of a tornado hitting. Certainly it makes more financial sense to pay $100K for a house that will last rather than $25K for a house that’s going to get blown away, with all your belongings, but that presupposes that the person can afford the $100K house in the first place. Poverty rates are higher in the South, so although a flimsy mobile home might not be the best option, for some it’s the only option - particularly if they’ve already sustained a financially devastating weather-disaster.
Now, having said that, let me tell you about my ex-father-in-law, who lives in Wisconsin and chose to buy a mobile home, for permanent placement, instead of having a site-built home. By the time he got done having the foundation laid and the connections cemented in and the extra insulation put in and all the little doodads to make it look like a “real house” instead of a mobile, and keep the cold out in winter, he had paid more than he would have paid for a traditional home… and the floor in the mobile was already starting to give out.
From 1985-1995 there have been 191 mobile home deaths and 130 in other kinds of residences (Table 3). Since (according to the US Census Bureau) only 6.1% of the United States population lives in mobile homes, this represents a much greater risk than for residents of “permanent” housing. During that time period, the average number of annual deaths per 10 million mobile home residents was approximately 11.4, while it was only 0.5 in other housing, implying that mobile home residents die at a rate 22.6 times greater than non-mobile home residents. Even assuming that tornadoes primarily occur in areas where the percentage of the population living in mobile homes is greater (say, double it to 12.2%, the approximate value for Butler County, Kansas, where Andover is located), the death rate is 10.6 times greater in mobile homes. As far as the statements about risks in apartments compared to mobile homes, assuming that all of the “unknown” permanent housing deaths occurred in multiple family dwellings, and using the percentage of US residents living in multiple family dwellings (28.5%, according to the US Census Bureau), the annual death rate per 10 million multiple family dwelling residents was 0.7.
taken from:
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/users/brooks/public_html/essays/mobilehome.html
Again, houses with wheels = not safe
Too much to read
Fail
It is frightening that you can articulate that level of knowledge about “manufactured” homes…No offense..but you should either sell them or teach a class..Ha ha!!! You smell like you’re associated with real estate, home building
or you just like doing research.
It’s the research one. I like learning for the pure sake of learning, and I get all “Ooh! Ooh! Let me share!” about the silliest, nerdiest stuff.
sounds like I’m in the presence of another hyperlink-surfing edu-freak…
…I spent 3 hours on wikipedia so far today…
YES!!
Hi, my name is e, and I’m a hyperlink-surfing edu-freak…
I went to wiki the other day for something completely legitimate and normal, and wound up tracing, like, Slovenian royalty from the 600s to modern day or something… it was 3 A.M. and I was begging myself to go to bed, but it was all so INTERESTING. To me; I don’t know one single other person who’d have found it even worth a second glance but I couldn’t get enough.
Lol, that’s how I wind up spending hours and hours on the ‘net without realizing it! I look up something someone mentioned on some site and then click and click and click until, before you know it, I’ve completely forgotten what started me down the road to begin with, but I can tell you some fascinating stuff about why we use a certain phrase to mean something that you totally wouldn’t think it would mean (if that makes any sense at all).
People I know just give me a certain look that says ‘you should be wearing a straightjacket’ and all I can do is nod and say, ‘I know…’.
I so agree. I need a straightjacket too… maybe more than you though.
There have been times that I have actually forgotten what I was originally doing in the first place….But, I just keep going. The next day I’ll remember and off we go again…..Blogs like haha.nu, boingboing, and neatorama don’t help either…..Hi e…My name is Keelhaul and I too…..wait, let me check this link right quick…..
Wow, it’s a shame there aren’t more people who want to learn for the sake of learning. When my Computing teacher heard that I was thinking of doing a 3rd year, he was asking “why do you want to be here for 3 years?” etc etc, he couldn’t understand it.
I always just go off on superhero comic stuff. I originally looked on wikipedia for spiderman stuff and click click click I found my self looking at apokolips and the the apokolips era.
Yes, nerd fail.
FIRST!!
(take that guys)
If you look closely…it’s the driveway of a house built over the gap (Like a bridge) that collapsed and took the support from under the house.
But how does the trailor-wheels get below the whole construction?! And on the far right end you can see that the bannister of the bridge is below the building… Spotfail!
It’s usually done with hydrolic jacks, fitted under the house and lifted evenly at the same time. Then supports and transport wheels are moved underneath the foundation.
If that’s true, how would cars get in the garage?
They don’t always stay on wheels or piers once they’re delivered to a permanent site. They’re sometimes put on slabs.
Like Jeff says:
You might be a redneck if your richest relative buys a house and you have to go help take the wheels off…
If it wasn’t hanging over water, someone’d borrow the wheels, it’d be up on bricks.
You see, this is where the planning for this house went astray. It was built in 1998, with the expectation that by 2000 there would be flying cars, like we were promised when I was a kid. So this is really a flying car fail.
Lovely, water-front double-wide for sale. 2-car garage. Lovely view of Fail Creek. Great ventilation. Must sell!
Are you saying that this house is up Fail Creek?
Does it have a paddle?
As you would expect, the fishing sucks.
Call it Failingwater
I don’t know, if I owned the place I’d kinda like it left there. Looks like a nice view.
No no no, this is a win. Do you know how much people pay to have a room by the water?!
But I would always want to go for a wee…
That’s the best part - you never have to worry about plumbing. Just cut a hole in the floor over the river, put the toilet over the hole, and instant waste disposal.
Oh sure sure, “contaminate the local water source” blah blah. Feh.