Alabama tornadoes: Cordova trailer ban upsets storm victims

Alabama tornadoes: Cordova trailer ban upsets storm victims

CORDOVA -- Danny Banks lives in a gray and green tent on the spot where his single-wide trailer sat before it was destroyed in the April 27 tornado that pummeled this Walker County community.

Banks, 50, plans to continue living in the tent in his Disney Lake community because he says he has no alternatives.

A city ordinance bans single-wide trailers such as the ones supplied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Banks said he has no plans to purchase a double-wide mobile home, which is permitted in certain parts of the city.

"I don't do double-wides," Banks said. "I'm waiting on a trailer, and I'm not going to move."

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"We're trying to better Cordova," he said. "We're trying to clean up Cordova and keep it clean. We're trying to keep the property values up. We're trying to get it to where people will want to build homes on these vacant lots."

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/05/alabama_tornadoes_cordova_trai.html

cleaned up public housing after Katrina.

Well then you're shit out of luck, ain't ya, cowboy?