Following Hurricane Ike's 2008 devastating landfall in Southeast Texas, FEMA delivered more than 3,600 manufactured homes to families needing temporary housing.
Within a few months after the after the storm, families began returning their units as they moved back to their repaired dwellings or rental resources.

Joshua Davis
I'm Joshua Davis with the FEMA Jasper, Texas mobile storage yard, and what you are seeing here are the mobile homes used for the hurricane Ike's disaster, they used them for the short term, got their house or living arrangements fixed, and now they've turned them back over to us, and we either fix them so we can use them again, or we store them until the next need.

What we have on site is the 12 by 40 park models for space limitations like drive ways and such. What you have here is a 14 by 64 three bedroom mobile home with two bedrooms in the front with the living room, kitchen in the middle and a bed room in the back, bathroom is in the middle. Fully furnished, refrigerators, microwave ovens all the furniture.

Mobile homes are of the last resort, but as we all know it does come down to it there is not that much rental property available.

The good news of it so far is a lot of people we did issued them to have sent them back, they used for the short term got their house or living arrangements fixed, and now they've turned them back over to us, and we either fix them, or we are going to use them again, or we'll store them until the next need.

We do a lot here build the living kits, we build those here in boxes, put one in every unit going out, so there was a lot going on to start with. 

Voice of: Don Jacks
People helping people?

Most definitely everybody here is likes to help other people  

As the 2009 hurricane season approaches five to ten de-activated mobile homes and park models arrive every day at the Jasper Yard.

Each mobile home returned to this lot represents another family moving one step closer to recovery.

For more information visit www.fema.gov