For mobile homes, there are two keys to hurricane preparedness: have a safety plan and have a strong anchoring system. Now that hurricane season is here, experts recommend that mobile-home owners ...

Inspections and surveys have shown that many mobile homes lack the proper anchors to protect them in a severe storm. State and local officials have been poking around under mobile homes lately, and ...

Over the past dozen years, Florida has spent more than $33 million putting anchors under aging mobile homes to keep them from blowing away. The program, free to homeowners, was supposed to make ...

Nor does anything prevent crews from anchoring decrepit homes that have little hope of surviving a storm even with the best tie-downs in the world. Last spring, a 41-year-old mobile home in Clearwater ...