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Old 10-08-2024, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Heytubes View Post
All mobile and manufactured homes should have required hurricane tie downs and shouldn’t be an issue. Just make sure they are there.
It's the roofs and damage when the sub-standard windows shatter from debris and wind, that's the problem here. Not the structure being blown away.

A 70+mph wind can easily break the fragile glass windows and rip the walls apart, or tear a metal roof right off the ceiling.

We have a metal roof, but we have double-hung double-pane windows (installed a year after we moved in). So it'll be a crap-shoot if we get that kind of wind here.