A strong El Niño is raising the odds of an active winter storm season—and the Floridians most likely to die in a tornado live in aging manufactured homes the state can’t even count.By Kate WaxmanOn the night of Feb. 22, 1998, tornadoes tore through Central Florida while most of the region slept. By dawn, 42 people were dead; to date, it is the deadliest tornado outbreak in the state’s history. Nearly all those who died lived in the same kind of housing: mobile homes and RV parks around Kissimmee, where families had no basement to shelter in and, in the dark, little chance to outrun a storm they couldn’t see coming.

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