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A 58-story skyscraper in San Francisco that's tilting and sinking (trunc)
Business Insider /MSN ^ | 9/7/2018 | Aria Bendix

Posted on 09/07/2018 4:18:59 AM PDT by sodpoodle

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To: sodpoodle

Who gave them a permit to build on a landfill. Liquefaction of that landfill is the number one risk in the next big earthquake. The city is 100% at fault. Someone got bribed, or is an idiot. That building will either come down in the “big one”, or it will be condemned immediately afterwords.


41 posted on 09/07/2018 5:13:35 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: ptsal

Yes. Correct. I was not thinking weight but more of a $h!t wedge.


42 posted on 09/07/2018 5:14:46 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: knarf

Asian buyers


43 posted on 09/07/2018 5:15:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: doosee
60 Minutes had a special segment on this several weeks back. They interviewed two gay partners

Of course they did. 'Cause faggots are normal, donchaknow ...

44 posted on 09/07/2018 5:18:06 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: BenLurkin

No sympathy for those living in Frisco. ( residents of that city hate that abbreviation)


45 posted on 09/07/2018 5:18:42 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: metmom
It would have been easier and more cost effective to do that FIRST.

Not for the original developers. They managed to retain the profits while transferring costs downstream.

46 posted on 09/07/2018 5:24:28 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Vaquero

My dad was an engineer and by osmosis I’m pretty sure he’d recommend crapping on the up-side slope. The down side increases pressure towards the direction of collapse.

Luckily there’s a whole lot of crap in SF so they may be able to save the building. ;-)


47 posted on 09/07/2018 5:30:54 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Tunehead54

See 42


48 posted on 09/07/2018 5:34:11 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: gaijin

Ha ha.


49 posted on 09/07/2018 5:36:41 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: sodpoodle

“Would never live in a building that tall - just give me a cottage on a slab”

My Sister’s in-laws live in this “sinking” building. Nice enough couple, and conservative. Not many of them in SF.


50 posted on 09/07/2018 5:38:50 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: DAC21

***My Sister’s in-laws live in this “sinking” building****

Which floor? Are they retired? What have they discussed with your SIL?

Prayers up they are coping well.


51 posted on 09/07/2018 5:46:02 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, I posted before reading.


52 posted on 09/07/2018 6:02:50 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Vaquero

Not going to get into a flame war but if you’re in the area please crap on the upside. I have a daughter in SF so we want to do it right. ;-)


53 posted on 09/07/2018 6:03:45 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: sodpoodle

“***My Sister’s in-laws live in this “sinking” building****

Which floor? Are they retired? What have they discussed with your SIL?

Prayers up they are coping well”

Not sure on the floor, not retired yet. They are worth some coin and I’d love into see them move for no other reason than they have a big Choc. lab, and an Appt. is no place for a dog like that.


54 posted on 09/07/2018 6:04:19 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: sodpoodle

When I was a kid, our town refused to give permission for building a synagogue. They finally approved a marshy swamp. After it was built, for years, it creaked and sank into the ground. The townies hated Jews. Now, the town is largely Jewish. Times changed.


55 posted on 09/07/2018 6:20:54 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: rjsimmon

Post 39

a link to the series

https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/engineering-catastrophes/


56 posted on 09/07/2018 6:37:53 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: sodpoodle
""...[Thinking of]anchoring the building to bedrock, which is more compact and tends to shake less than sand."

I seem to remember a guy who understood this in principle 2,000 years ago.

57 posted on 09/07/2018 6:48:22 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Pay everyone what you owe ...respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. Rom 13:7)
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To: Fresh Wind
I understand 13, but why 44?

Could be an Asian thing, but that would include 4, 14, 24, etc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia

58 posted on 09/07/2018 6:49:56 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: sodpoodle

Union built.


59 posted on 09/07/2018 6:52:26 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: sodpoodle

I heard a concrete worker on the radio who worked on that building say that things weren’t up to snuff when they poured the piers and foundation. No way I would live in that building or anywhere near it.


60 posted on 09/07/2018 6:52:41 AM PDT by jetson (TOTAL)
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