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Greg Schoor, National Weather Service, Statement Reveals Serious Problems in Tornado WARNINGS & Manufactured Housing Safety Data

By: PRLog
WASHINGTON - Jan. 30, 2018 - PRLog -- Greg Schoor is about to become much better known among:

·         manufactured home owners,
·         manufactured housing industry professionals,
·         investors and housing experts,
·         public officials,

and others across the country.

In an exclusive statement published on MHLivingNews, a National Weather Service (NWS) severe storms expert – Greg Schoor – made admissions that could shake the foundation of what the public has been led to believe about manufactured homes and tornado fatalities.

Schoor admits that tornado death-counts for mobile and manufactured homes (MH) fail to make a number of obvious, and important, distinctions.

What Was Said by Schoor, and What It Could Mean for Manufactured Home Owners, Shoppers, and the Housing Industry

For example, per Schoor's statement, if someone dies outdoors of their dwelling as a result of following the weatherman's advice to leave their "mobile home," and "immediately seek other shelter," that tragedy has been counted as a tornado death in a "mobile home."

For another example, if someone dies from any cause – including a structural failure, a heart attack, or a tree falling and killing someone – those are all being tallied as a tornado death attributed to the mobile or manufactured home (MH).

In the midst of a highly publicized affordable housing crisis, Schoor's carefully analyzed statements provide numerous revelations.

"Unfortunately, this type of loose 'data' being used to disparage the industry and its homes has been an ongoing problem. This is not only an issue for the [manufactured home] industry to address and correct, but for HUD as well, as part of its statutory duty to ensure the availability of affordable manufactured homes for American home buyers," said Mark Weiss, JD, President and CEO of the Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR).

Schoor's statement and its implications ought to be a wake-up call for all those seeking affordable housing solutions.

The U.S. Census Bureau, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and HUD Commissioned third party research – among others – have already identified manufactured homes as the most affordable side of the housing industry.

Misinformed reports often paint manufactured homes in a negative light; and those bulletins routinely include the use of apparently problematic NWS statistics.

An example is the also apparently flawed research published in 2017 by Michigan State University (MSU) researchers. That sensationalized MSU research was debunked last year in an analysis by MHProNews, who used lead MSU researcher - Professor Mark Skidmore's statements – to spotlight the problems with their research.

Those fact-checks were made in concert with key Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) staff.

What the newest ManufacturedHomeLivingNews.com expose implies is that the actual number of deaths tied to structural failure is lower than is being reported.

Further, the MHLivingNews report spotlights how the frequency or odds of even such misleading 'tornado death tolls' are incredibly low.  Its more than a million-to-one-odds in favor of a manufactured home resident. Rephrasing, even using the apparently flawed NWS data, the odds on a typical year are better than a million-to-one that a manufactured home resident won't die in any given year from a tornado strike.

Perhaps the most serious implication from Schoor's statement is this.

People who take a weatherman's warning to heart, and leave their mobile or manufactured home, could needlessly die as a result. They might well have survived, if they had sheltered in place, following safety tips in the same, new MHLivingNews special report.

The report also clarifies with an infographic an often-confused point.

Mobile homes are not manufactured homes, and manufactured homes are not mobile homes.  They two housing types are built to differing codes.

Manufactured homes have for decades been built to the nation's only federal building code, primarily administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

That's an important detail that media and researchers must grasp and use, as this research reveals.

All of the above, includes expert quotes, Schoor's complete statement, NWS and other safety tips, and more found in a in-depth special report – which includes a dramatic video –  linked here and below.

The brief version of the debunking of the 2017 MSU tornado report, which quotes the lead researcher Mark Skidmore's on-the-record admissions, is linked here.

https://www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com/weather-experts-surprising-bombshell-statement-on-tornado-deaths-and-affordable-manufactured-homes/

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