Posted on 12/24/2018 7:23:03 AM PST by DFG
The People living there are only Renting. They don't own the Apartments like the people in San Francisco who own Apartments in the sinking Millennium Tower. Pull up the Moving Trucks and see ya', wouldn't want to be ya'...
Police confirmed the 34-storey Opal Tower had moved "1 millimetre to 2 millimetres".
Hmmmm.
I’ve seen reports of the dang thing listing, some reports of it sinking. I feel for folks who have no choice but to move back in if their unit has been deemed safe. I surely wouldn’t want to do it.
The Coriolis twist? Nice theory.
I’m also wondering if the problem isn’t so much the building as the ground it was built upon. I saw one story that stated the ground is “reclaimed land”.
Per LE on local news earlier, crack is on what they’re calling Level 10...
Still habitable if you just rearrange the furniture.
Update, another evac....
#BREAKING: All residents from Sydneys Opal Tower will be relocated to investigate the cause of the cracking.
MORE: https://t.co/ykweMevBOK https://t.co/gfA1PxZx95
Evac to be completed within 24 hours. Residents may be out for 10 days. May.
All residents of the Opal tower at Sydney Olympic Park are being put up in hotels as the building owners go through more checks - “this may take 10 days” https://t.co/jqix8O4Fcf
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