[Shotimes] OT where are all those campers going?

[Kelvin Turner]

Yup, those are the trailers that FEMA provides to people who's homes are 
uninhabitable.  I know quite a few people who lived in trailers here after 
the hurricanes a couple years ago.  If you didn't have a place to put one in 
your driveway, then they had huge "trailer parks" set up in large parking 
lots, fairgrounds, or any place where they could park a few hundred 
trailers.  I had heard that they had one plot that was something like 2000 
acres set aside for camper trailers in Texas.  Then when somebody's done 
with their trailer, they either have the oppurtunity to buy it for cheap or 
FEMA takes it back and refurbishes it and sends it off to somewhere else 
where it is needed.  As many trailers as FEMA has been buying, I'd say its a 
great time to be in the camper business.
Kelvin


>From: Donald Mallinson <dmall@mwonline.net>
>To: "'v8sho'" <v8sho@v8sho.com>, SHOtimes <shotimes@autox.team.net>
>Subject: [Shotimes] OT where are all those campers going?
>Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:58:58 -0600
>
>Sometimes I can be a bit dense (Kirk/Ron, just shut up...OK?)  :)
>
>But on the recent trip to Memphis to work on the 06 Convention, I kept 
>noticing dually or one-ton pickups hauling about 22-26 foot campers.  Not 
>the construction type trailers you expect to see behind work trucks, or the 
>mobile homes that would take a bigger truck, but regular campers.
>
>It was too late in the year for snowbirds to be going to Florida, and the 
>trucks all had the same small magnetic company logo/name on the doors.  
>Could never get a read on it though.  Must have seen nearly a hundred over 
>the two days on I-57/I-55.
>
>Then it finally (the dense part) dawned on me.  These are going to 
>Louisiana and New Orleans for housing!  Didn't think they would start 
>sending down regular campers, but I guess the need is that great.  I lived 
>in one for a year when going to college, for a single guy, a camper isn't a 
>bad hooch, but not for a family more than a week or two.
>
>Just an observation.
>
>Don Mallinson
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