Posted on 09/07/2018 4:18:59 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Metaphor Alert! for California
So if floor 44 is eliminated because its unlucky, why isn’t the 4th floor eliminated?
Countdown until this is blamed on climate change.
I predict this building will began to collapse and fall over until any actions are taken.
Must be horrible to be stuck with a place like that. Probably could only sell it to some “furner” as an “investment opportunity”.
I predict this building will began to collapse and fall over until any actions are taken.
Yep!
How can you tell when a bureaucrat is lying?
His lips are moving.
13 and 44 were left out because of bad luck? That worked out well.
I have a friend who lives in the building and I’ve visited several times. I always have an unsettling feeling and can’t wait to get out. I’ve told her to move out and she plans to do so within the next year. She is a conservative and Trump supporter living in a sea of irrational leftists.
Hey, it’s only leaning 0.1 degree - who’ll notice. /S
IIRC this whole thing started with some guy practicing his putting.
They’ll build a homeless apartment complex over it. Isn’t that just an empty lot with boxes and tarps?
Large structures are built to withstand stress and shifting
It’s not uncommon
However
The owner did not pay to put support piles down to bedrock. They stopped short of bedrock. Wonder if they would make the same decision today?
Nor would I...I spent the majority of my fire service career occupied with high rise firefighting techniques, and consider high-rise living a roll of the dice in the best of buildings...
One out of control fire on an upper floor started by careless cooking or a shorted out electrical circuit or appliance can take up the entire on-duty firefighting resources of a city like San Francisco...
Auto extinguishing systems do fail, are dependent on often deferred maintenance, and detection systems are bug prone and suffer as well from lack of maintenance and costly updates and retrofits...Their reliability depends on too-often complacent ownership and poorly trained or devil-may-care attitudes of building engineers...The drain and sheer effort required can strap even the best equipped, well-trained and physically fit fire companies very rapidly...
Try stretching 3-inch supply lines by hand up 20-30 floors up interior stairwells on SCBA under heavy smoke conditions and near zero visibility, carrying 100# of protective clothing and gear when a standpipe fails and see how long you last physically and what you have left in reserve to fight a fire, once/if you make the fire floor...
Codes continue to improve high-rise building safety, but every page in the Fire Code is written over the bodies of those lost in a fire...
The above alone rules out high-rise living IMHO...Single family dwellings for me...
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