That's the tongue-in-cheek image we used when the General Services Administration put the FEMA formaldehyde tainted trailers up for sale. We wondered "who would think of buying them and what they could possibly doing with them."

Now we know; they are reselling them and using them to house workers cleaning up the spill.

Four years or so after their manufacture, one would think that much of that formaldehyde had o

"Pimp my FEMA trailer." Image credit:SwampPlot.com

FEMA has put the notorious Katrina Trailers, some 100,000 of them, up for auction; and the bidding has apparently driven down prices for the new models.