FILE PHOTO: Yana and Jeremy Cauble board up their mobile home in preparation for Hurricane Irma in Homestead, Florida, U.S., September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston/File Photo
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla./WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Only a fraction of mobile homes in Florida were strapped down with the kind of hardened braces meant to withstand fierce storms before Hurricane Irma hit the state, experts said, leaving more than a half-million homes vulnerable to serious damage.
About one-third of Florida's roughly 850,000 mobile homes were installed to current code, according to industry data. The standards were devised after Hurricane Andrew struck Florida in 1992, uprooting thousands of mobile homes like tin cans.
