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   From: user@domain.invalid   
      
   Bill wrote:   
   > Bob Vila did a series in South Florida with two steel containers that had a   
   > 20' space between them.   
   > When it was done, you could not tell it was made out of the containers.   
   > Some outfit out of Tampa is utilizing the containers to make Hurricane   
   > resistant houses.   
   >   
   >>>> Why not get sheets of corrugated steel and construct them as warranted   
   >>>> rather than go through the bother of altering a prefab version?   
   >>> Hi Don,   
   >>>   
   >>> The reason is containers are easy to find, can be bought cheap and the   
   >>> have known structural qualities. These things get lugged on/off ships and   
   >>> roll around the oceans. A few years ago in Western Australia an entire   
   >>> township, in the path of a Category 5 cyclone. got inside a 12m/40 ft   
   >>> container for shelter. They all came out again unharmed.   
      
   I have a shipping container design in my head that got out halfway on my   
   previous laptop just before I dropped it down an escalator. :D   
      
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