Plans for the tallest building in the US are underway — and it isn’t in NYC

Nypost ^ | 01/23/2024 | Patrick Reilly

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Just for reference, how tall is the average Oklahoma tornado?”

On a bad day I would say 1,907 feet.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

John Hartford wrote about Tall Buildings a long time ago...and he nailed it.

In Tall Buildings
By John Hartford

And it’s goodbye to the sunshine
Goodbye to the dew
Goodbye to the flowers
And goodbye to you
I’m off to the subway
I must not be late
Going to work in tall buildings

Now when I retire
And my life is my own
I made all the payments
It’s time to go home
And wonder what happened
Betwixt and between
When I went to work in tall buildings

And it’s goodbye to the sunshine
Goodbye to the dew
Goodbye to the flowers
And goodbye to you
I’m off to the subway
I mustn’t be late
Going to work in tall buildings

[Vendome]

I use to have an office in the BOK building in Downtown Tulsa, 45th floor.

I took the freight elevators...

[eyedigress]

I would say it would be good enough to permanently move about 4 or 5 three letter agencies out of DC.

[lee martell]

That was my first thought. The second thought was this looks like something a politician in India or a Sheihk in Dubai would do, purely for the bragging rights.

[Sequoyah101]

!?m

Maybe it will be as successful as the Burj Al Kalif. Seems a dumb idea to me.

[Blue Highway]

First thing I thought

[laplata]

“On a bad day I would say 1,907 feet”.

LOL

[crusty old prospector]

And they don’t have erfquakes in California?

[crusty old prospector]

I worked in a building like that in Houston for a while and there was a certain elevator that would free fall when it started its descent. When the door on that one opened, I waited on another one.

[Drew68]

It’s not as if such a building would be a terrorist target or anything.

Maybe we should just build boring, uninspired five story concrete monstrosities so we don’t draw the terrorists’ attention.

[peggybac]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[catnipman]

why on earth would these fools build MORE commercial office space when NYC and SF has YUGE buildings with only 8% occupancy?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

why on earth would these fools build MORE commercial office space when NYC and SF has YUGE buildings with only 8% occupancy?

Each local economy is different. NYC and SF are wasting away, but OKC is thriving.

[Responsibility2nd]

Maybe we should just build boring, uninspired five story concrete monstrosities so we don’t draw the terrorists’ attention.

Yeah. They did exactly that one time in Oklahoma City. This was it after terrorists got through with it.

Maybe we should just build boring, uninspired five story concrete monstrosities so we don’t draw the terrorists’ attention.

Yeah. They did exactly that one time in Oklahoma City. This was it after terrorists got through with it.

[ebshumidors]

Reminds me of an old joke.

Q: Why do they call women’s stockings hose?
A: Because they go right up to the water sprinkler.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Maybe we should just build boring, uninspired five story concrete monstrosities so we don’t draw the terrorists’ attention.

Let's build empty, boring, uninspired thousand-story deathtraps instead.

[ganeemead]

They won’t know what kind of catastrophe they are inviting until it happens. Misuse of technology...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Three scrota?

[alexander_busek]

I took the freight elevators...

You and the other 'bos ever have any "dust-ups" with homicidal elevator bulls?

Regards,