Posted on 09/06/2024 2:42:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A pane of glass being installed on the top level of a 30-story skyscraper in San Francisco's South of Market plummeted to the street Friday morning, damaging windows on another building across the street, authorities said.
A spokesperson for the city's Department of Building Inspection said the full pane of glass came from the roof of the Salesforce East building at 350 Mission Street. The high rise is adjacent to the 61-story Salesforce Tower, the tallest building in the city, and across the street from the Millennium Tower, the city's tallest residential building at 58 stories.
No one was reported injured.
Portions of the glass pane that shattered flew across the street, cracking two ground-floor windows of the Millennium Tower, said department spokesperson Patrick Hannan. A building inspector was dispatched to 350 Mission Street to evaluate the situation issued a violation notice which required the opening where the glass was to be secured and the glass to be replaced as soon as possible, said Hannan.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported a driver on Mission Street saw people running from what he thought was a robbery in progress until he heard what sounded like rain hitting his vehicle. He told the Chronicle his rear window was shattered and the roadway was littered with glass.
Both Salesforce East and Millennium Tower were among San Francisco high-rises that had glass shattered on upper floors during severe winds in March 2023. The winds also blew out several glass panes from the 52-story former Bank of America building at 555 California Street in the city's Financial District. The Fire Department issued a shelter-in-place order for the entire block at the time, but no one was hurt.
After five different skyscrapers had windows shattered during the severe windstorms, the city ordered the inspection of façades for buildings 15 stories or taller and built after 1998.
It is a miracle that no one was hurt. Almost anything falling from that height is going pretty fast by the time it reaches the ground.
And then the glass scattering from the impact.
Charles Durning come along with it?
the work crew installing the glass were all DEI hires
Millennium Tower is the one that is sinking , leaning, etc.
Nary a mention by CBS .
I remember when the Hancock Tower in Boston had windows falling out all the time. The facade was dotted with lots of plywood sheets. They eventually solved that problem, but IIRC it took some time.
“A building inspector was dispatched to 350 Mission Street to evaluate the situation issued a violation notice which required the opening where the glass was to be secured and the glass to be replaced as soon as possible ...”
Thank goodness they arrived on the scene! How would anyone know to secure the opening and fix the glass as soon as possible? Government heroes I say.
The John Hancock building in Boston earned its moniker “The Plywood Palace”. The whole situation was a black eye for a building leased by, and named for, an insurance company.
I wouldn’t want to be in or near it when the next earthquake hits. Anyway, leave it to our media to ignore the most important detail.
Another DEI report
Glass Pane Falls From Top of San Francisco Skyscraper Onto Street
I remember in college wondering why there was plywood over a window in the Peachtree Plaza Hotel in downtown Atlanta. Then the movie Sharkey’s Machine, starring Burt Reynolds, came out. See the 30s ad and you won’t wonder any more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FCHefQeuSM
About 15 years ago, there was a big windstorm that came through during the SEC tournament (so mid- to late-February) that took out a bunch of high rise glass in downtown ATL. My son and friends from out of town were down there for it, but they weren’t hurt. A few people were.
I heard about the Hancock building fiasco on a bus tour back in the 90s.
The Hancock Tower was the first thing I thought of. I remember visiting a friend in Boston at that time and it was the talk of the town.
How did the glass cross Putin to get tossed to the street?
I read a news article once of a high rise construction worker carrying a sheet of plywood on some high floor 50th-60th? when a gust of wind blew him off the building and then blew him and the sheet of plywood back into the building a floor or two below.
I wonder if that shook him up a little.
Amazing luck that no one was injured.
This happens in Houston, during hurricanes. The good news, is that not too many people are on the streets of downtown Houston, during a hurricane.
Flitcraft is an interesting bit. Too bad it didn’t make it into the movie. The movie makes it clear that Sam Spade is a very smart guy. But I think the Flitcraft parable makes it clear that Spade is a more than just smart: he’s a deep thinker.
It is a good thing SF has become a ghost town, HOWEVER it is quite amazing homeless on the street were not injured!!
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