MHS Challenges Natural Disasters- Flood

While occasional extreme flood events can destroy homes outright, the most common danger posed by flooding is the damage to structure and finish materials as a result of immersion in water. Most floods do not completely destroy the structures of homes. Instead, they immerse a portion of the home and do damage through the subsidence caused by the washing away of soil around foundations. But the effect of water on the materials commonly used in wooden stick frame homes is devastating to livability even f they retain most structural function. Stains and odors become permanently mbedded into them, they become warped or delaminated, fungus ontamination permeates all cellulose materials. The result is that, post flood, he typical home must undergo extensive and expensive renovation and ometimes homes that are otherwise structurally sound become so costly to enovate that they are simply abandoned or deMHS offers many advantages in the event of flood damage. The aluminum omposition of the structure is completely immune to the effects of immersion, hough subsidence of foundations is still a serious threat. Wall panels may be as usceptible to immersion damage as conventional stick frame walls but they are ar easier to replace than stick frame walls by virtue of their modular construction.

Also, just as they create a fire stop for the spread of fire in wall panels, the luminum frame components also present a kind of fire stop to the spread of ungus contamination, since the spread of fungus in wall panels materials occurs here there is communication by layers of cellulose material. But there is perhaps ne virtue of MHS which surpasses all others. MHS allows one to readily and apidly move a whole home out of harms way. If one is faced with an impeding lood event that offers some time before a home is immersed, one can literally ake it all apart, pack it up, and ship to high ground! This virtue also eliminates the eluctance many people stuck in flood prone areas have toward relocation. hile we have a highly mobile society, this mobility is contingent on the ungibility of the home, not its direct mobility. A home in a flood prone zone loses ts resale value and, therefore, the mobility of the home owners is lost. With MHS here is no loss in equity in the home if it is forced to move because it is emountable. This is one of the most powerful of all virtues of modular building echnology.molished whole.
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