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To: Nita Nupress

I don't like the struts that hold up the parapet walls (walls sticking up above the roofline). If those parapets break loose they will peel the skin of the roof back like an onion. Once (If) that happens the rest will come off pretty quick. Maybe not the underlying structure holding up the roof, but the wind and the rain will be able to get in.

There's going to be some funky things happening in the windflow in that area, you'd need a supercomp to model it properly.


906 posted on 08/28/2005 4:22:20 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: jeffers

Husband doesn't know what those do, structurally. It is why he wants an inside view of the structure to see what is doing what...

Too bad the drawings aren't available online. If they were, some really good engineers could advise the politicians whether putting all those innocent civilians in there is such a hot idea.

I am with the poster who wonders why they didn't just put people on school busses, and head west.


1,015 posted on 08/28/2005 4:35:23 PM PDT by jacquej
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