Blog Posting # 857; Copyright 6 September 2025. EducateMHC
Know this! HUD-Code manufactured housing (‘MH’) is federally-regulated, performance-based, affordable-attainable, factory-built housing (a.k.a. one of four types of offsite construction), routinely paired with traditional stick-built housing (a.k.a. onsite construction). And land lease communities (a.k.a. manufactured home communities & ‘mobile home parks’) comprise the commercial real estate (‘CRE’) component of MH. A variety of housing finance types (e.g. chattel or ‘home only’ loans, & real estate-secured mortgages) constitutes post-production MH.
EducateMHC is the official MH historian, trade term & trend tracker, as well as perennial MH information source. Contact EducateMHC via (317) 881-3815; email gfa7156@aol.com, and www.educatemhc.com to purchase Community Management in the Manufactured Housing Industry (This book belongs in every land lease community nationwide!), and SWAN SONG –History of land lease communities & official record of annual MH production totals since 1955.
My autobiography, From SmittyAlpha6 to MHMaven, describes personal combat adventures in Vietnam as a USMC lieutenant, a 45 year entrepreneur business career in MH & community ownership, and freelance consulting plus authoring 20 nonfiction texts & 900 blog postings.
George Allen is the sole emeritus member of the Manufactured Housing Institute (‘MHI’), a founding board member of MHI’s National Communities Council (‘NCC’) division, RV/M Hall of Fame enshrinee, Allen Legacy columnist & editor at large for the popular MHInsider magazine.
OUR WORST NIGHTMARE
‘EMP Attack Would Kill Millions of Americans!’ This is the vivid headline of a feature article in the September 2025 issue of NEWSMAX magazine. Here’s from that startling news story:
“One of the primary reasons the U.S. needs a Golden Dome (like Israel) is to prevent an electromagnetic pulse (‘EMP’) attack, which if successful would kill millions of Americans over a short period of time.”
And “Instead of detonating when it hits the ground, an EMP would explode 200 miles above the U.S.”, damaging current and effecting voltage surges nationwide – and a whole lot more!
So, where’s all this coming from? Various sources for sure. I first learned about EMPs back in 2009, when a friend working in the federal government recommended I read William Forstchen’s science fiction novel One Second After. Well, I did so – and was shocked to learn how devastating an EMP attack would be here in the U.S. I mean, and think about this for a moment, how do we live without electricity? No power, no lights, no pumping of any liquid, no electronic communication, no HVAC, and on and on! Guess what likely becomes the primary method of monetary exchange? Bullets! There’re needed for hunting, as there will be no grocery stores to speak of. Anyway, this dire scenario goes on and on throughout the novel, leaving readers stunned at ‘what might be’. This real fear of an EMP so stunned politicians in Washington, DC. at the time, that Newt Gingrich encouraged Dr. Forstchen to pen this story – and that was 16 years ago! Now EMPs are coming back into the national news.
Again, “After about 20 days, your town is out of food, and then the (loss of) command and control starts with the bad guys coming to take whatever they want. It turns into a massive catastrophe.”
A second novel by Forstchen, titled One Year After, revisits the towns and characters introduced in the first novel, 12 months later, describing how many, but not all, have adapted to a very primitive lifestyle. It sure reawakens the angst and awe spawned in the first novel.
Finally, author Forstchen closes this epic tale in The Final Day, describing an almost apocalyptic event – but not, on the east coast. By the time one finishes reading this triad of science fiction novels, one wants to never experience an EMP attack, anywhere, anytime!
So, if you’re looking for a challenging, albeit educational ‘read’ this fall, be sure to pick up a copy of One Second After. And let me know what you think of the plots and characters, via gfa7156@aol.com
George Allen