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  • Last week's outbreak of tornadoes in the southern U.S. proved particularly deadly for mobile-home residents, prompting lawmakers and emergency-management officials to renew their focus on the contentious issue of the structures' safety in storms.

    Mobile-Home Deaths Raise Issue of Safety Jennifer Levitz 2011

  • Arkansas will likely examine whether more can be done to prepare mobile-home residents for tornadoes, said Tommy Jackson, spokesman for Arkansas's state emergency-management department.

    Mobile-Home Deaths Raise Issue of Safety Jennifer Levitz 2011

  • "There's no more land left for a mobile-home park," Mr. Kummer says.

    Chicago Firm Parks on Long Island Dawn Wotapka 2011

  • Jeff Roberson/Associated Press The water was level with or just above the floors of the homes in this Memphis mobile-home park.

    Mississippi Flood, From Above 2011

  • Perhaps I learned too much from my grandparents retirement decisions: they sold their house and bought a retirement mobile-home, with the rest of their equity into savings.

    Adequacy of Personal Savings, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Within 20 minutes of opening, seven locals had arrived and scores more were expected from a low-lying mobile-home park along the Chicopee River.

    Springfield, Mass. Locals Head for Shelters Jennifer Levitz 2011

  • —More than 100 people gathered outside the Stony Brook mobile-home park here Monday afternoon, waiting for word on when they could return to the little that is left of their homes after dozens of tornadoes swept through North Carolina on Saturday.

    Hard-Hit North Carolina Assesses Tornadoes' Toll Valerie Bauerlein 2011

  • Thomas Babb/Associated Press Tornadoes destroyed more than 100 homes in the Stony Brook mobile-home community in Raleigh, N.C. The string of twisters that traveled from Oklahoma to Virginia before going out to sea Sunday demolished or damaged schools, big-box stores and brick houses, killing at least 45 people.

    Hard-Hit North Carolina Assesses Tornadoes' Toll Valerie Bauerlein 2011

  • CoStar Group Deutsche Bank at 60 Wall Street In New York, the bank is preparing a fleet of commercial trucks and mobile-home trailers that can double as roving automated teller machines or bank branches on wheels.

    Wall Street Ready for a Real Storm Steve Eder 2011

  • No one lived upstairs, and the nearest neighbor was a mobile-home park three quarters of a mile down the road.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

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