Wherever the housing comes from, it will not be anything like the 120,000 trailers the agency bought to house victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, said Craig Fugate, the FEMA administrator.
Kenneth Benning, 83, moved from an agency trailer to a new house on high ground last fall, but he is still waiting to hear what is to become of his flooded house — which he is maintaining and is expecting to pay taxes on — and its community.
Lodging is always a function of the geography of any assignment; in the past, the agency has used trailers, private apartments, town houses, dorm rooms and tents.
Chrysler says that trailer hitches will protect the gas tanks, which are mounted behind the rear axle and are vulnerable to rear impacts, although Chrysler told the agency that a trailer hitch "cannot and will not mitigate the risk of high-energy rear collisions" but would "incrementally improve the performance" in "certain types of low-speed impacts".
There are various sizes of the image - just click on the appropriate size below ( most are for desktop - depending on the size of your monitor ) and save from there: The trailer was developed by creative agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe Y&R, created by Passion Pictures and Red Bee Media.
Brubaker also explained that it's now customary for film studios and marketing agencies to make trailers for specific audiences.
There are still more than 36,000 occupied trailers along the Gulf Coast, but the agency is trying to move people out of them by June 1.
"The people who were following that trailer saw the piglet sneak through a hole and fall off the trailer," Joyce Kemp, spokeswoman for provincial police agency Sûreté du Québec, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The automaker originally reached an agreement with the agency that involved installing trailer hitches to protect vulnerable fuel tanks, but the Center for Auto Safety says the fix is inadequate.
Indeed, the agency's disaster recovery trailer in Prattsville was recently replaced with the first long-term community recovery team the agency has established in a New York town affected by Irene.
