Shipping containers don't offer much protection.

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

How many guys watching that has shipping containers buried in there back yard as bomb shelters?

 

[breadtrk]

I promise I will let them in to look at my junk in the container way before it escalates into a missile strike. The good stuff is in a filled block bunker set into the side of the mountain that is only accessible by the tunnel. The entrance to that is a Pinto Wagon that is rusting away amongst 40 other junk cars and trucks.

 

[AGRIMAN]

How many guys watching that has shipping containers buried in there back yard as bomb shelters?

People do it. We spray foamed a remodel job on a very nice home. Part of the new addition was a large two car garage. Inside the garage was a 20' shipping container. My first thought was it must be the GC storage unit, then I realized it was bolted to the new concrete floor.

I asked the GC and he said it was going to a fall out shelter. He was installing a fresh air filtration system, water, beds the whole nine yards.

 

[kf4uda]

So I guess I need to buy one of these to protect my storage container

Counter Rocket Artillery & Mortar system (C-RAM) FIRING! US Army land based PHALANX test day/night! - YouTube

 

[topbuilder]

People do it. We spray foamed a remodel job on a very nice home. Part of the new addition was a large two car garage. Inside the garage was a 20' shipping container. My first thought was it must be the GC storage unit, then I realized it was bolted to the new concrete floor.

I asked the GC and he said it was going to a fall out shelter. He was installing a fresh air filtration system, water, beds the whole nine yards.

Pretty sure they cannot handle the pressures underground without serious reinforcement.

 

[prichard]

I was thinking about using it as a form to pour concrete over for a root cellar

 

[AGRIMAN]

Pretty sure they cannot handle the pressures underground without serious reinforcement.

I would tend to agree with you. I think the GC shared the same thoughts as he rolled his eyes when I asked him what it was. But hey, he was getting paid to do it.