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JENGA!

Right after Ian paid a visit.

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[BenLurkin]

Apparently the developers didn’t believe that Florida will be underwater soon due to climate change.

[lee martell]

I wouldn’t have thought Miami had enough earth underneath to ever support a 100 storey building.
This does not sound like a good idea. It seems like something a Sheikh would do in the desert, simply because they can afford it and there is no one around to say no or ‘that’s a crazy idea!’

[TexasGator]

The Waldorf building is so heavy and so large that the 150-knot or 200-knot hurricane-strength winds would not affect it, said Mr. Maloney. The building’s floor plates are each around 20,000 square feet, compared with a recent supertall tower PMG built on Manhattan’s West 57th street, the Steinway, where floor plates are closer to 5,000 square feet, Mr. Maloney said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/miamis-first-supertall-tower-breaks-ground-11667307538

[Henchster]

From the article: Buildings must not tremble under the force of hurricane gales that are increasingly common in the area.

The woke jerks at the Wall Street Journal just can't resist injecting "climate change" BS into the story.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Some structural engineer is really going to need to earn his money.

[ryderann]

They need to get a reverse osmosis plant going before they start on this project.

[KarlInOhio]

Let's give the Champlain Towers architect, William Friedman, another chance.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

First Category 3 hurricane will knock it over.

[drSteve78]

Given that nearly the entire state is built on karst geology, unless it’s the Everglades, this is beyond foolish. Karst topography is the equivalent of limestone sugar cookies.

[Deaf Smith]

Not giving a CC to read the story…

What is this “pendulum like device”?

How does it work?

[adorno]

Somebody got the idea for that building design, from watching a 2 year-old stack letter blocks.

Hurricanes will divert themselves after seeing how easy it would be to knock those boxes down. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban would not even bother to fly planes into that building, expecting that it would collapse on its own sooner or later.

[PAR35]

South Florida high rise condo? Anyone ever hear of Surfside?

Maybe they can get the engineering team that did the bridge at FIU.

[metmom]

Miami’s Waldorf Astoria residential tower, poised to be South Florida’s tallest skyscraper, is a test case for new techniques meant to enable the more than 1,000-foot tall building to withstand hurricane-force winds and remain stable near sea level.

Brilliant…….

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

After all of the sinkholes in Florida? Lime foundation?
This must be a farce or stupidity.

[lurk]

What could go wrong. Seems like tower builders are trying to find out if Isaac Newton was serious.

[Libloather]

...enable the more than 1,000-foot tall building to withstand hurricane-force winds and remain stable near sea level.