Kingsway Green

   When one considers the high cost for a site-built home, many intelligent home buyers are looking at manufactured homes as a smart alternative.  Manufactured homes are and always will be available to those who want quality and affordability when buying a home.  Some folks won't or don't consider living in a new manufactured home.  This is because of misinformation with the media playing a strong role in their lack of popularity.  Those who speak negatively about manufactured homes do so because of something they either heard or a false perception of somehow they are substandard.  These naysayers have never seen or stepped inside the new, modern manufactured home.  Admittedly, there are many old mobile homes sitting on properties that should have been demolished years ago.  These old relics are more deserving of a landfill and would not pass the latest HUD Code building regulations.  The media loves to inject sensationalism into their storylines and very often headline manufactured homes as poor examples of livable dwellings.  The media loves to knock them down, portraying them as disabled icons and unsafe to live in, especially after severe weather disasters.  But if you look closely, you will see most of all of these mobile homes lying on their sides are the much older homes that were built before the inception of current stricter federal and state codes and manufacturer building and installation regulations.  

  The United States leads the world in tornado frequencies, tornado injuries and deaths.  The vast majority of manufactured homes (81.2%, see map) are located in tornado alley and the vast majority of manufactured homes (83.6%) are located in suburban and rural areas of our great country.  Exactly where 95% of all tornado strikes just so happens to occur.  It is these underlying factors that gives rise to the frequency of tornado related events.  Look at the two maps at the top.  Whether living in a site-built home or a manufactured home it just doesn't matter to a tornado.  It is the tornado that is dangerous,not the home.  If manufactured homes had never existed and were replaced with a site-built home, the same tornadoes at their alarming frequencies would have wrought the same damage, injuries and deaths.  Knowing that, living in tornado alley, which is the majority of the country, everyone needs a tornado shelter to go to in the event of severe weather.  This is why Kingsway Green has provided tornado shelters for its senior residents.  Everyone needs a sanctuary from Mother Nature's wrath, especially in tornado alley.

  Although tornadoes have been observed on every continent except Antarctica, the vast majority occur in the United States.  The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, about four times more than the rest of the world.  This is mostly due to the unique geography of the United States.  In the middle latitudes, where most tornadoes occur, the Rocky Mountains block moisture and atmospheric flow, allowing drier air at mid-levels of the troposphere, and causing cyclogenesis downstream to the east of the mountains.  The desert Southwest also feeds drier air and the dry line, while the Gulf of Mexico fuels abundant low-level moisture.  This unique topography allows for many collisions of warm and cold air, the conditions that breed strong, long-lived storms many times a year.  A very large portion of these tornadoes form in an area of the central and eastern United States known as tornado alley.  The United States averages about 1,200 tornadoes per year.  Tornadoes are most common in spring and least common in winter.  Since autumn and spring are transitional periods (warm to cool and vice versa) there are more chances of cooler air meeting with warmer air, resulting in thunderstorms.  Tornadoes can also be caused by landfalling tropical hurricanes, which tend to occur in the late summer and autumn.  But favorable conditions can occur at any time of the year.