Tvo wrote :tvoivozhd---you are absolutely correct---shipping containers have a strength factor several times that of stick-builts, and an even greater advantage over mobile homes or prefabs found in trailer parks. Berms would be a great help in reducing wind loads on walls, though roofs would remain a weak point. As you point out, anchorage is profoundly important too. Actually anchorage in Florida could be quite good in the coral rock that underlises the souhernmost counties. It is soft enough to receive a spiral anchor and won't pull out like it would in sand.
They aren't lovely to look at, but you can't beat them for price and utility.
My Fruehauf cost $750 shipped from Norfolk area and set in place on steel
pipes.
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(Shipping Container mobile home, storage---cheap, long-lived, easy to move
and set up, take down.)
Just thinking about the mobile homes in Florida -
had some of them been 'built' from these, and
*anchored* correctly, seems like they could
withstand hurricanes .... having them partly
buried or earth bermed up the sides would also
cut the wind force and prevent them being
turned over, wouldn't it ??
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