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To: CFW

Terrible. I remember the Kansas City Skywalk collapse in ‘81, I believe.


2 posted on 03/21/2026 3:19:57 PM PDT by bwest
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To: bwest

I do, too. What a horror. Hopefully this is not anywhere close to that


5 posted on 03/21/2026 3:39:41 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: bwest

My boss was the last person that they peeled off of the floor in the Hyatt disaster.


6 posted on 03/21/2026 3:52:27 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: bwest

“Terrible. I remember the Kansas City Skywalk collapse in ‘81, I believe.“

Wasn’t there some kind of harmonic convergence involved there or did it just let go?


10 posted on 03/21/2026 3:59:18 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: bwest

Another smaller one in Berkeley, CA almost eleven years ago:

Berkeley balcony collapse
On June 16, 2015, shortly after midnight, five Irish J-1 visa students and one Irish-American died and seven others were injured when a balcony on which they were standing collapsed. The group was celebrating a 21st birthday party in Berkeley, California. The balcony was on the 5th floor of an eight-year-old apartment building at 2020 Kittredge Street in Berkeley, then called Library Gardens.


13 posted on 03/21/2026 4:02:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: bwest

In 1995, the Sampoong Department Store, in South Korea collapsed, killing over 500 people. The cause there was cost cutting during construction in 1987.

Luckily, so far the Tamworth collapse, so far, has not killed anyone.


26 posted on 03/21/2026 4:58:52 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: bwest

Floor collapsed at a wedding Israel about 20 years ago too. Bunch of people were killed. Remember seeing the video. Terrible.


29 posted on 03/21/2026 5:01:36 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: bwest

One Kansas City Place. I represented the structural steel contractor, J&B Steel back then. Big problem.


30 posted on 03/21/2026 5:01:44 PM PDT by anton
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To: bwest

I remember the one that happened in Israel.


38 posted on 03/21/2026 6:12:55 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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