FEMA trailers

[Horse with no Name]

Today I have seen about 25 mobile homes headed to points South coming straight from a manufactured home factory.
These toters (trucks they haul mobile homes with) had the name of the companies that leased them, however, on the front of them, where it normally says "Wide Load"...the banner instead said "FEMA".
I wonder why...with a glut of reposessed mobile homes on the market, why they contracted for new ones.
It would seem smarter financially and environmentally to refurbish the repo's to like new condition (which isn't difficult) and take them off the hands of the banks instead of letting them sit in fields and rot?
Why not attempt to serve more than one purpose?
I guess it would be interesting to see what political affiliations that Clayton, Champion and Fleetwood have?

[FloridaPat]

1. There are very few used MH to take from Florida because of the

storms last year. All the old ones were destroyed. The newer ones came through OK, but a lot of mobile homes had to come down here. Not too many left around to move.

Clayton is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Don't know anything about the other two.