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Drastic measures?
Posted on 5/16/11 at 11:27 am
Posted on 5/16/11 at 11:27 am
I've seen lots of videos of people going through drastic measures in order to save their property. However, I've also seen some people who are living in trailor houses who are about to lose everything. Is it too drastic of a measure to hire a moving company to come in and pull the trailor out of harms way for a couple of months?
We've known now for weeks that this was coming, I would pay the price and move my trailor out of Butte La Rose or Krotz Springs.
We've known now for weeks that this was coming, I would pay the price and move my trailor out of Butte La Rose or Krotz Springs.
This post was edited on 5/16/11 at 11:32 am
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Posted on 5/16/11 at 11:29 am to BasClas
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Posted on 5/16/11 at 11:29 am to BasClas
excellent idea.
Posted on 5/16/11 at 11:33 am to BasClas
so you think people living in trailers in those areas have a few grand laying around ?
Posted on 5/16/11 at 11:37 am to ccomeaux
Granted that money would be the problem, but the alternative is to lose the whole house. No easy solution, I know.
Posted on 5/16/11 at 11:38 am to BasClas
Spend 15K to save a 25K home ?
Moving companies were raising prices
Moving companies were raising prices
Posted on 5/16/11 at 11:40 am to Kickadawgitfeelsgood
That figures!
Posted on 5/16/11 at 11:42 am to BasClas
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move my trailor out of Butte La Rose or Krotz Springs
Very few people live permanently in Butte la Rose. Krotz Springs is surrounded by levees.
People in the backwater flow were pulling their trailers out right and left all last week.
None of that makes a good news story. The real story here is the incredibly vast scale of this flood control project. That is too hard to understand and not particularly interesting to lots of people. So the news folks find someone badly affected by this and play into the "Louisiana Story" myth.
Before you East St. Mary people jump my butt, yes, I do realize that it affects more people down there.
Posted on 5/16/11 at 11:47 am to BasClas
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Is it too drastic of a measure to hire a moving company to come in and pull the trailor out of harms way for a couple of months?
Dude - there isn't a moving company that can handle that many trailers in that short a time. I'm sure a lot of folks probably DID hire someone to move their trailer, but I'm sure most folks who TRIED to do this were told "sorry bud, I'm booked up till December"
Come on man, common sense. Moving companies don't have 1000 trucks sitting around just waiting for a once in a lifetime event.
Then you've got the fact that there isn't just thousands of empty trailer park spots waiting around withing reasonable distance, either. You've got to have somewhere to PUT them.
This post was edited on 5/16/11 at 11:49 am
Posted on 5/16/11 at 12:14 pm to IndianRed
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Then you've got the fact that there isn't just thousands of empty trailer park spots waiting around withing reasonable distance, either. You've got to have somewhere to PUT them.
The old Evangeline Downs?
I would rent a spot from whoever owned some land there in Opelousas. Just enough room to park my home for a couple of months.
Dude, if my house had wheels on it, I would pull it out of the spillway.
Posted on 5/16/11 at 3:38 pm to Kickadawgitfeelsgood
quote:I had a trailer moved some time back and it wasn't NEARLY that much. What's it actually cost to move a trailer these days? 3K?
Spend 15K to save a 25K home ?
Posted on 5/17/11 at 6:43 pm to IndianRed
quote:No, you're NOT sure. Fact is, I bet there were actually FEW moved.
Dude - there isn't a moving company that can handle that many trailers in that short a time. I'm sure a lot of folks probably DID hire someone to move their trailer, but I'm sure most folks who TRIED to do this were told "sorry bud, I'm booked up till December"
Irrelevant anyway. I'm not worried about "all them others", I'm only worried about mine- hypothetically speaking.
quote:I could find a lot of places to put one.
Then you've got the fact that there isn't just thousands of empty trailer park spots waiting around withing reasonable distance, either. You've got to have somewhere to PUT them.
Posted on 5/17/11 at 7:52 pm to Geauxtiga
Put it on the Underhills Bill
Posted on 5/17/11 at 8:11 pm to Geauxtiga
quote:
I had a trailer moved some time back and it wasn't NEARLY that much. What's it actually cost to move a trailer these days? 3K?
They wanted $5200 last week. I assusmed they would be returning to the property. $10,400 and we haven't added the hidden costs of service installation and repair.
Posted on 5/17/11 at 8:40 pm to Kickadawgitfeelsgood
quote:fuuuuck. Then I am wrong and THAT IS too much.
They wanted $5200 last week. I assusmed they would be returning to the property. $10,400 and we haven't added the hidden costs of service installation and repair.
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