The shipping container industry is going crazy because of this. The
>containers come over full of goods, the boats go back with bulk raw
>materials that do not require containers. The cost so ship the empty
>containers back is almost the same as the cost for China to produce a
>new container, so the containers are sold off CHEAP over here, or
>destroyed and returned as scrap metal to china.
I've read that in some parts of the midwest, they scrape a hole with a backhoe, dump in a shipping container, and voila ! Instant Tornado Shelter !