Left Homeless By Sandy, Residents Take Shelter In FEMA Trailers

[Purveyor]

Vera Pizzo was in her tiny backyard with Bella, her husky Chihuahua, when she heard the unmistakable groan of the garbage truck compactor. She ran into her new home and emerged with a few water bottles.

When the truck rolled up to empty her cans, she was there, leaning over her miniature white picket fence, ready with drinks for the workers.

"This is what I did in Long Branch, so I do it here, too," she said.

Pizzo’s new neighborhood is the Angle Inn Trailer Park in Howell, and her new home is a two-bedroom FEMA model, 12 feet wide and 36 feet long, trucked in from Cumberland, Md., in January. It is showroom-white and unadorned, a fresh face among the weathered trailers in the park; those with awnings and flower boxes on small porches, and faded siding of different colors.

Inside are government-issue furnishing: a brown pullout couch, a black metal table and four uncushioned metal chairs. Two double beds over unboxed springs.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/23/left-homeless-by-sandy-residents-take-shelter-in-fema-trailers/

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Wonder if they will have the same toxic fume problem

that Katrina trailers did.

Hmm..wonder if these ARE the Katrina trailers.

[siligut]

2. If you go to the GSA Auction site, the FEMA trailers are there

And there is a warning about the formaldehyde. They are selling for less than $10,000.

I can't link directly, but try going to http://gsaauctions.gov/ and then click on Trailers, Tractors and Manufactured Housing.