Talk:FEMA trailer
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[edit] Katrina-centric
This article says nothing about Hurricane Charley and their use in Charlotte County, which was obviously before Katrina. --CFIF ☎ ⋐ 11:17, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I added a paragraph about the 2006 floods in upstate NY, PA, and NJ, where FEMA trailers have also been employed. My brief comment was based largely on personal experience: I live in one. It has its shortcomings but basically I'm grateful--it's my own place for the time being and it's right next to my house, which is a lot more convenient than if I were still staying with relatives more than an hour away.
[edit] Merge?
This article is heavily POV and Katrina-centric, and despite the AfD not succeeding, this article does not deserve to stay. It should be merged somewhere, but I'm not really sure where. FEMA trailers existed long before the 2005 hurricane season. --Coredesat 00:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- So, add something about the pre-Katrina use. AFD failed; merge was an option on the table; that debate's over. Being incomplete is no reason to kibosh an article. Derex 12:26, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- 21-June-2007: Also, being "Katrina-centric" is not a shortcoming. The book/film "The Da Vinci Code" had like 10 WP articles about it, and that was a work of fiction; but Hurricane Katrina was real, killing over 1800 people and damaging over 650,000 homes (that's over 6 hundreds of thousands of houses). For those of us in the real world, let's try having, say, 500 WP articles devoted to Katrina-centric topics. Reality check: the wiki search for "Hurricane Katrina" matches 5325 total articles. That's a good start. ;)) -Wikid77 05:14, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History of Disaster housing in the U.S.
That might be a better title, increase the historic content, and make it a better and less AfD prone article than the present focus on the shortcomings of FEMA's response to Katrina. The historic view was that the government had no obligation to house or feed people after a disaster. Was there a government effort to provide housing after early disasters such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871? After the Johnstown Flood of 1889 Clara Barton of the Red Cross arrived, and basically comandeered lumber enough to build temporary shelter hotels where people were sheltered for a year or 2. I added a ref about San Francisco 1906 earthquake shacks: those were the FEMA trailers of a century ago. After some disasters, the Army would loan tents to the Red Cross, but would demand rental payment. After the 1937 Ohio River flood, the Red Cross provided tents for temporary disaster shelter see Ohio River flood of 1937. The history should probably distinguish immediate shelter (tents, churches, schools) from intermediate term housing (the San Francisco earthquake shacks, the Johnstown "hotels," unused army barracks? motels, and other shelters for a year or two. The article should include links to and summary of current official FEMA plans: how many people can they theoretically provide housing for after a major disaster. The article should probably be focussed on the US to keep it manageable, but I see nothing wrong with mention of or other articles on how the world or the UN responds to earthquakes, typhoon, and wars worldwide with tent cities, refugee camps or whatever. Just a suggestion, but a lot of researech would be required. Edison 03:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
The latter half of this article reads as if were written by Kanye West after his "George Bush doesn't care about black people" episode. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.215.125.127 (talk) 22:08, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Weasel Words
So much original research/bias... Lots42 (talk) 09:00, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
