Posted on 03/21/2023 2:51:29 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Terrified workers fled a soaring new Manhattan skyscraper after experiencing a huge 'shake' run through the building, that made it feel as if its floors were collapsing.
One Vanderbilt, a $3.31 billion tower which sits just north of Grand Central train terminal in Midtown Manhattan, was struck by the tremor on Tuesday afternoon.
A spokesman for One Vanderbilt said the shaking was due to repair work on the elevators, and there were no injuries as the public viewing platform was closed.
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an invisible elevator floor. Who wants that?
My husband worked on elevators for over 40 years (Haughton, Armor Elevator etc). Repairs don’t make buildings shake.
My wife called me Moriarity sometimes and to stop with the negative waves.
Elevators have side rails with breaks that slow it's descent. It's also the law that, even with 5 to 7 cables, ONE cable has to be strong enough to hold the weight capacity.
Still, a couple inches on something that high is a lot of compression and spring back for a steel and concrete structure, unless the structure is purposely engineered to flex.
Something that huge weighs plenty, which means foundation peers going to bedrock. If the foundation shifted an inch or so, that would do it. Unless the building has major structural issues, then a collapse in imminent.
40 years? Must have seen plenty of ups and downs in that career.
Probably the same outfit that built the leaning tower of San Francisco
I can vouch for it. Was working on a fuel system on a Dallas high rise (down in the basement)and the Otis tech gave me a heads up . So I stopped working and waited... sure enough, not really a boom but it shook the floor down there. I’m sure it went all the way to the top.
It was just Michael Moore, visiting the building after eating ten burritos.
Or did they hire those same women who designed the FIU bridge?
LOL!! He hated escalators. Said they were unsafe. We'd be in the mall, shopping, and he'd see guys he knew and would climb in the "pit" with them. There were shoes, packages, all manor of stuff. If you get you shoelace or anything caught in the escalator teeth, it's gone. It will pull the shoe off your foot.....or worse.
Lol. Post of the thread
Though, you neglected to ‘splain WHY they needed such information. Do they know something we dont know? Hmmm?
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They were testing the elevators to see if the recoil springs mounted on the bottom of the elevators worked after dropping them from the tenth floor.
Whoa....and all this time I thought you were a dude.
LOL!! I hear that a lot.
I just thought that you were a rapper.
I’m careful around escalators, they doo look like they want to eat your feet. There was a wooden one at King’s Cross Underground Station in London that caught fire and killed a lot of folks. Fascinating how it happened, but grim.
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