Posted on 11/24/2012 6:28:34 PM PST by haffast
Yep the good old days and Dems cry about how hard life is. What a joke. I have pics like this of my family living in a mud underground hut in West Texas so my gggrandpa could claim the land. No cell phone, TV, purple drank, no luxury but they made it without gov’t assistance.
Another reason is that we do not produce enough stuff to ship back containers full of goods.
We buy stuff from the new manufacturing powerhouse that is China, and send back NOTHING. What we do sell there, is often produced there.
So rather than send back empty containers, it becomes cheaper to sell them in the USA for the difference in the price of sending them back empty and convincing the rats of Detroit that they make lovely ‘homes’.
I guess they took notes from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
Insulation is cheap. And then there are the already-insulated containers used to ship produce. I've been thinking about getting one of these to make into a workshop.
Detroit shipping container city
This is at least thirty year old architecture at last reaching Detroit.
I visited transient quarters made from stacked 40 foot containers in Jubail in 1977
The correct dimension 92 inches...... two 46” pallets side by side
89 inches is the door height
It’s got its own zipcode.
I’m certain the author meant 20 to 40 instead of 20 by 40. Containers come in 20 foot and 40 foot lengths in standard height and high cube varieties. I ship approximately 500 of them weekly.
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