If your home in Bainbridge, Thomasville, Cairo, and unincorporated Decatur, Thomas, and Grady counties is not livable after Isaias, you may be able to stay on your own property while it is repaired. We deliver a furnished travel trailer to your driveway or yard, set it up, have it connected, and service it for the whole stay. When a carrier approves the trailer, we can bill the carrier directly.
Local rules. Thomasville and Thomas County each have an emergency permit for a temporary trailer or RV while a home is repaired, issued at the city's or county's discretion after a declaration; Decatur County caps RV living at 30 days a year, and Bainbridge, Cairo, and Grady County have no storm exception we found. Each rule is linked to its official source below.
Housing a crew? Thomasville lets a construction office house a night watchman or superintendent, and Thomas County one security employee; no code we found in the area lets a whole crew live in RVs on a job site. Crew rules and housing
Satellite: GOES-East. Radar: NEXRAD. Track, cone, and warnings: National Hurricane Center Advisory 13. All at 4 PM CDT Oct. 9. Latest forecast: nhc.noaa.gov
Go back into an evacuated area, and plan a delivery there, only when local officials say it is safe, and follow road closures. For Decatur, Thomas, and Grady counties, official updates come from the Decatur County Emergency Management Agency and Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency.
Checked against the sources above as of . For current conditions, go to the source.
Whether a trailer can stay on your lot is decided by your city, or by the county outside city limits, and by your HOA if you have one. Here is what each one’s own code or official page says, in short. Our parent brand covers the residential RV rules for Southwest Georgia in detail.
Governor Kemp's executive order of October 8, 2026 declared a statewide state of emergency for Hurricane Isaias, covering all of Georgia; it has no county list. The order does not set a rule for trailers on residential lots; the city or county decides. The Thomasville and Thomas County emergency permits are discretionary, and we found no local Isaias declaration from either, or from Bainbridge, Decatur County, Cairo, or Grady County, as of October 9, 2026.
That depends on your policy and your adjuster. When a carrier approves the trailer, we can bill the carrier directly, so you are not fronting the cost. Our parent brand explains the claim side on 1st Choice Living’s Georgia page. Once the placement is arranged, the trailer, delivery, and service are ours.
Every size arrives furnished, with real beds, a full kitchen, a bathroom with a shower, and heat and air conditioning. More on a trailer on your property while you rebuild.
We work with any temporary housing company. If one is handling your housing, ask them to place you with Temporary RV Living, or with our parent brand, 1st Choice Living, for a trailer on your own lot in Decatur, Thomas, and Grady counties. They send us the placement, and we deliver, set up, and service the trailer.
For restoration, roofing, tree, utility, and response crews working in Bainbridge, Thomasville, Cairo, and unincorporated Decatur, Thomas, and Grady counties. Bring the housing to the work. We deliver travel trailers to the site, or as close as the ground allows, and set up and connect them the same way we do in a driveway. A two-person crew fits one trailer. A full crew takes a cluster, and the Workforce Bunkhouse sleeps six or more per trailer, with a kitchen and a bathroom the crew shares. One point of contact runs the placement, it lands on one invoice billed directly to the company, and we handle the LOA, COI, and compliance paperwork your office or your client requires.
Ask the city building department, or the county office outside city limits, before delivery, with the address, the head count, and how long the crew expects to stay. More on crew housing.
Water, sewer or septic, and electrical connections are completed by licensed, insured contractors from our preferred vendor network, so you do not hire an electrician or a plumber. We look at how far the trailer will sit from the water, sewer, and power it will use, and confirm the site with you on the call before the trailer rolls.
Electric service in Decatur, Thomas, and Grady counties comes from the utilities below. Each posts its own outage and storm updates.
Septic: In unincorporated Grady County, a trailer lived in as a temporary residence with its plumbing in use needs an approved water source and sewage disposal that meets the county health department's rules, and Thomas County's emergency permit needs health department approval of the plans. Georgia's on-site sewage rules cover systems serving recreational vehicles and require a county health department permit before any part of a septic system is installed. If the trailer will tie into a septic system, ask the county health department first. Source: Grady County Code of Ordinances, Sec. 22-56
Call the office for the city where the trailer will sit, or the county office outside city limits. Ask whether a travel trailer may be used there, for how long, and which permits the hookups need.
Answer a few questions in the request form and a rep calls you back with a written quote, or call (214) 493-1515.
Our sister brand LossMap covers documenting a property from the air before tarps go on and debris comes off, on LossMap’s Southwest Georgia page.
Both codes provide an emergency permit for a temporary trailer or RV while the home is repaired, for up to six months, and both are discretionary. Thomasville's needs a declaration by the city council, which we had not found as of October 9, 2026. Thomas County's needs engineered plans. Ask Thomasville's Building Department at 229-227-6983 or Thomas County Inspections and Planning at 229-225-4120.
Bainbridge allows RVs on residential lots only for parking or storage, and its definition of a dwelling excludes RVs; we found no storm exception. In unincorporated Decatur County, living in an RV more than 30 days a year counts as permanent residential use and needs it secured and permitted like a manufactured home. Call the shared Building Department at 229-248-2000.
Cairo bars living in a stored travel trailer in a residential district and allows only a medical or age hardship variance. Grady County limits living in a travel trailer to 60-day stays at designated sites and bars it as a residence in a residential subdivision. We found no storm exception in either, so ask before anyone moves in.
Not as a whole crew under any code we found. Thomasville lets a construction office house a night watchman or superintendent, and Thomas County lets one security employee live in a construction office. Decatur County offers temporary RV park permits, and Cairo and Grady County limit trailer living to parks or designated sites.
We deliver, set up, and service trailers nationwide, and have since 2004. Put the address in the request form and we confirm the site with you on the call. Plan a delivery only once local officials, including the Decatur, Thomas, or Grady County emergency management agency, say the roads are safe.
Official pages and official code hosts, checked October 9, 2026. Rules can change after a storm; the office that wrote the rule has the final word.
For your family or a crew, answer a few questions and a rep calls you back with a written quote.
