Hurricane Ian highlighted the vulnerabilities of older mobile homes
Mobile homes built before 1994 can't withstand the kind of ferocious winds of a major hurricane. In Florida, there are thousands of these older homes that crumble during big storms like Ian
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — A man in his late 70s, eyes red-rimmed and holding a beer in a koozie, surveys the ruination that was once his happy home. His decapitated mobile home is in Gasparilla Mobile Estates, about 30 miles north of Ft Myers. The name comes from the famed barrier island just offshore.
"How do you describe it?" John Borren says with a forced chuckle. "Gone. Demolished."
The drone photos from the coast of Southwest Florida show the aftermath of : mobile home parks blown to smithereens. At Gasparilla Mobile Estates, it looks like a giant took a
