We have an old joke here in the South:
"What do a tornado and a divorce have in common?"
"Someone's gonna lose a trailer."
Congress is attempting to make that truism less lethal:
A bill to require all new manufactured homes to come equipped with emergency weather radios is gaining traction in Congress, pushed by a campaign promise to an Indiana woman whose 2-year-old son was killed by a tornado in 2005.
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People living in mobile homes face 10 times the risk for fatalities by being hit by a tornado than those living in permanent homes, NOAA said.
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