Posted on 10/21/2018 9:59:43 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
As a crowded group of Clemson University students and local residents danced and jumped around at an apartment clubhouse late Saturday night, Jeremy Tester felt something strange beneath his feet.
"You could hear the floor about to go through, kind of," he said, "but nobody thought it was going to happen. They just kept going." But suddenly the floor gave way. Dozens of partiers dropped into free fall and landed in a mass of sprawling bodies in the basement. Police said 30 people were injured when the floor of the apartment clubhouse collapsed during a party on homecoming weekend in Clemson, South Carolina.
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Or someone starts a fight or begins shooting.
...the soldiers, who were marching four abreast, felt it begin to vibrate in time with their footsteps. Finding the vibration a pleasant sensation some of them started to whistle a marching tune, and to “humour it by the manner in which they stepped”, causing the bridge to vibrate even more.[8] The head of the column had almost reached the Pendleton side when they heard “a sound resembling an irregular discharge of firearms”.[8] Immediately, one of the iron columns supporting the suspension chains on the Broughton side of the river fell towards the bridge, carrying with it a large stone from the pier to which it had been bolted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge
It’s like those Electronic-Ecstasy parties in the early 00s. Give me a ‘sock hop’ or 60s music, instead.
I remember reading about that disaster.
“ Jeremy Tester felt something strange beneath his feet”
Years ago i went to an Ikea store for a labor day sale, so naturally the place was packed with people. I went up to the second floor and people were just walking around. But i could feel the floor kind of bending or flexing under the weight of all that people. Made me extremely nervous and i was glad to get back to the ground floor and out of the store. As far as i know, the floor never collapsed to this day.
Old, and full of termites.
The phrases ‘gravy train’ and ‘hogs at the trough’ come swiftly to mind.
Darned wild ones.
I’ve been in buildings like that, too, and didn’t stay long once I felt the floor flexing.
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Niece’s boy, first year out of Rutgers and making 80K/year for a major accounting firm in DC, went back to their homecoming over the weekend - stayed in his old fraternity - it was “awful” he says - “kids running in and out banging doors, yelling, music blaring all night long - the sort of thing I was doing there just last year” - guess he’s growing up.....
Too bad there was not a civil engineering student upstairs to warn the partiers of the dangers of harmonic oscillations and to say, "do you know what is about to happen?"
The *surprised looks* on both faces is priceless.
Sounds like he’s got a good Conservative brain now, instead of just a liberal heart. The “real world” will do that for you, and make you grow-up quickly.
Two phrases I never thought of in relation to the article. How’d you come to them? Just curious...
Pee-lousy’s working on ‘proving’ Kavanaugh was there, and caused it Heh..
I think it’ll be a LOT WORSE THAN JUST A FLOOR CAVING IN.
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