Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 11:26:10 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: storage for Vanagon stuff
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OK BenTee in the middle.
I saw the thing on the cargo trailers being used as residences in the
Philippines on a Frontline special that went into the details of the
Tropical Storms in the Pacific.
You know the Typhoons and Sunami?
The concern voiced was that the cargo container are so strong and water
tight that people living in them can be washed out to sea in situations
of tidal waves and back washes.
As for expense; there has to be some middle class working residents of
the Phillipines that can buy a $500.00 cargo container. Wouldn't you
think?
I knew I could never trust Public television again after I found out that
they were partially funded by the National Endowment for The Arts.
Stan Wilder
On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:00:19 EDT BenTbtstr8@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 9/14/02 12:24:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> wilden1@JUNO.COM writes:
>
> << People live in those things in the Philippines .............. Low
> Cost
> Housing. >>
>
> Stanthule,
>
> If you got off your air-cooled state (pun intended) once in a while,
> you
> might realize that cargo containers are much too expensive to use
> for housing
> in the Philippines. Most usable containers are sent back stateside
> immediately filled w/ goods made at labor rates of $5 per day. These
> are
> current figures by the way. Lots of containers come back empty from
> the US to
> Asia. IIRC that is called in some circles as a trade deficit w/
> Asia.
>
> Not to be confused with the fellow from Manila who was describing a
> swimming
> pool. "See dat pool ober der... How deficit?" There only thing most
>
> Manilenyos say with the F sound is Filipino. Everything else sounds
> like a P.
> For that matter, there is no normal V. So you would call out
> favorite vehicle
> a Banagon (RVC).
>
> BenT
> <A
> HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/bentbtstr8/myhomepage/index.html">Vanagon
>
> Cafe</A>
>
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