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Tilting, Sinking San Francisco High-Rise Raises Alarm
AP ^ | 10/24/2016 | Jocelyn Gecker

Posted on 10/24/2016 1:32:26 PM PDT by LRoggy

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To: LRoggy

All the smart, old money built on the side of the hill in SF. No problems with Earthquakes, flood, sinking (or in the old days, disease).


21 posted on 10/24/2016 1:54:47 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Good one.


22 posted on 10/24/2016 1:56:11 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: LRoggy
They should have seen it coming from the original architect presentation.


23 posted on 10/24/2016 1:57:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PGR88
All the smart, old money built on the side of the hill in SF. No problems with Earthquakes, flood, sinking (or in the old days, disease).

The geniuses built on LANDFILL without sinking the piles to bedrock! Good luck with that.


24 posted on 10/24/2016 1:58:00 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: LRoggy
Trump owned building at 555 California St San Francisco, formerly Bank of America building


25 posted on 10/24/2016 1:58:07 PM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: spokeshave

And it’s up the hill a bit - anchored to the rock. :)


26 posted on 10/24/2016 2:02:03 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: dfwgator

Faulty Towers?


27 posted on 10/24/2016 2:03:12 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: LRoggy

When radio and TV towers are erected they must own all the land around it so if they fall they don’t fall off the site.

So a 600 foot tower must have a parcel that is 1200 feet square at a minimum.

Why don’t they use these same regulations on high rises ???
58 stories is about 600 feet high. That’s area is about 16 city blocks.


28 posted on 10/24/2016 2:04:13 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: LRoggy
Liberals sure like to keep things secret from the public, don't they?

-PJ

29 posted on 10/24/2016 2:07:08 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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The tower’s foundation, for instance, uses piles driven 60 to 90 feet into landfill, rather than the pricier option of going down at least 240 feet to bedrock.”

Back in the 1990s, I worked in a skyscraper a couple blocks away at the Embarcadero wharf, and had an office looking across the bay towards the Bay Bridge. The City sold some land next to us, and I watched as a developer built a hotel. Noisy as heck for a long time as they drove piles into the ground, and very deep. Not only that, but they then drove steel piles at angles around every vertical pile, perhaps seven angled for each vertical pile at the basement level, and these were all welded together with brackets. They made sure that building would not sink. And it was a seven-story hotel. That leaning Millennium Tower is 58 stories in height.

It's well known that much of this land is former bay, filled in with sediment, shipwrecks and garbage from the 1800s. The original bay shore actually extended many blocks inland. So driving piles to bedrock should be mandatory (but isn't).

30 posted on 10/24/2016 2:07:31 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: frithguild

Can you spell lawsuits?


31 posted on 10/24/2016 2:07:57 PM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP Rock!)
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To: spokeshave
Trump owned building at 555 California St San Francisco, formerly Bank of America building

And star of "The Towering Inferno" movie.

32 posted on 10/24/2016 2:10:50 PM PDT by roadcat
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Faulty Towers?



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33 posted on 10/24/2016 2:11:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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before it falls, sell it to the Chinese.,/i>

I think the Chicoms know a thing or two about new buildings falling over.

34 posted on 10/24/2016 2:14:06 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Trump: A Bull in a RINO closet.)
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To: LRoggy

Kind of a metaphor for the city of San Francisco.


35 posted on 10/24/2016 2:17:08 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: George from New England

They don’t use those regulations for high-rise buildings because buildings don’t topple over like a radio or TV antenna might. If a tall building collapses, almost every piece of it falls straight down. See the collapse of the WTC buildings on 9/11, for example. Other than dust that can get carried by the wind, notice how little debris there was outside a small radius at Ground Zero.


36 posted on 10/24/2016 2:17:53 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: LRoggy

Perhaps this was deliberately intended as an homage to Bill Clinton. Peyronie’s Tower?


37 posted on 10/24/2016 2:19:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: AndyJackson

ROFL

THIS THREAD ROCKS!!!


38 posted on 10/24/2016 2:19:04 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Chicaps would be the buyers and they weren’t born yesterday


39 posted on 10/24/2016 2:20:31 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Exile Barack, Exile the Wookie, Exile Malia, Exile Shasha)
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To: LRoggy

Fits quite well and is illustrative of the “bedrock principles” of the SF governing types...


40 posted on 10/24/2016 2:25:41 PM PDT by Zman (Liberals: denying reality since Day One.)
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