Why do Tornadoes seem to strike trailer parks?

Question

It seem odd to me that if a trailer park is available a tornado seem to find it .Do tornadoes have a brain that is controlled by some unknown force.

Answer 1

Every city will have a trailer park. Evey trailer is much more fragile than a house so they get consumed completely at even the edge of a tornado. They are not singled out, they just always get taken out.

Answer 2

Its just because they get completely obliterated when tornadoes do strike them. The odds of a tornado hitting any populated area is actually quite small, given that the majority of them occurs in the plains, where there isnt much but grassland.So when it does come through a populated town, its going to damage the whole town, but the trailer park is the destroyed mess you will usually see on tv ,even if it was a weak storm, because the extent is much greater than the rest of town, unless it was a very strong tornado, where there really wont be anything left at all, even sturdy structures.

Answer 3

It often seems that way, doesn't it? Here are the 2 main reasons:

1. Trailers are not well built structures. As such, a relatively weak tornado (EF-1 for example) can cause major damage. Trailer parks are often gone with an EF-2. So, a tornado that only removes a few shingles to the homes on the other side of town can tear complete destruction through a group of trailers.

2. Because they are so often destroyed when other homes are not, the media tends to key in on these areas. So not only are trailers destroyed more easily, they are all the media reports on.

Hopefully you were aiming for a serious answer. If you were just being facetious, my answer is: It's because of the spite index.

Answer 4

Its an absolute Myth. There is no history of tornados hitting trailer parks in preference to other structures.

Trees are more vulnerable to being hit by and destroyed by tornados than anything else. Why? Because they are everywhere. When a tornado touches down there are likely to be trees around.

In states with lots of land but with low income averages, you are likely to see more mobile homes or trailers serving as people's homes. The same principle applies. If there are a lot of them lying scattered around-- its more likely that the tornado's path with intersect with one.

Look up storms like the one that hit Jarrell, Texas, (May 27, 1997), Wichita Falls, TX (April 10,1979), or Oklahoma City (May 3, 1999). Theses storms leveled neighborhoods full of sturdy brick homes. Trailer homes were also hit, but in no particular preference to regular structures.

In Ft Worth Texas, on March 28, 2000, a tornado hit and virtually destroyed a high rise office building.

Answer 5

They don't really. Mobile homes usually are just affected more adversely than foundation homes.

However, tornado paths are affected by terrain, and mobile home parks tend to be on very flat ground. Although mobile home parks do not "attract" tornadoes, they may be in the natural path of tornadoes more often.

Answer 6

The same reason why newspaper put scandals and disaster stories on the front page. Most gore and misery.

Of course your theory about tornadoes with brains has some merit. They could have gotten brains from the many people who seem to have lost theirs...

Answer 7

Have you ever met people who lived in trailer parks??? If I was a tornado I would aim for them too ;)

Answer 8

Tornadoes strike flat location. And let's facet, trailer parks are not located in any downtown areas with 40+ stori buildings

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Answer 9

I dont view it as a miracle, and to do as such is selfish. What about your neighbors? So you think God prefers you over them? Its called physics, its called math, ITS SCIENCE! The answer is that your trailer didn't meet the scientifc pre-requisites to be flipped or destroyed, so it wasnt. No miricle there. Good luck prehaps, but no miracle.

Answer 10

probably they seem to be somewhere in a flat location where tornadoes form the most.