On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 03:41:56 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 10:24:07 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:17:48 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 12-Sep-17 6:23 AM, Puckdropper wrote:
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Don't focus so tightly on the container as it is. Look at it as it could
be: Windows, doors, plumbing, electricity can ALL be installed. ...

And by the time you do that w/ a box not intended for the purpose might
as well just have a purpose-built prefab -- oh, FEMA already did that.

I think the idea is that these intermodal containers could be shipped
where they're needed using existing infrastructure and *stored* until
needed. The FEMA trailers made during Katrina weren't much good the
first time around.

Where would you store them? Considering we now know where they are needed, where
would you have stored them prior to Harvey and Irma.

There are one or two army bases in Florida, Georgia, and even Texas.

Would enough containers have been delivered to Barbuda prior to Irma? The Keys? The
coastal areas around Houston - e.g. the small towns and villages, etc.?

Is FEMA responsible for "Barbuda"? Can FEMA build trailers and have
them pre-placed around the Keys, Houston, small towns and villages,
*before* the hurricane hits? Good grief. THINK! Guess what
"intermodal" means.

Do you load up California in anticipation of the Big One? If so, where? Everywhere?

Hell, no. Store them in Antarctica where they'll be out of sight!
sheesh

How do you determine where the next disaster will strike? How do keep them ready for use
when they may sit fior decades?

That's why the steel shell makes sense. Drywall and termite barf that
FEMA used makes no sense at all.

It's not decades between emergencies, BTW.

There's an outfit around here using them as the basis for tornado
shelters and folks use them all over as storage and occasionally
repurpose for small barns, etc., and yes, rarely for dwelling space but
they're simply not particularly well-suited for the purpose at hand.

For permanent homes, no, I don't think anyone is proposing that
they're a good idea.