That's old masonry that fell, and the high rise behind it is still standing and wearing its skin.
Brick walls fail because mortar has no tensile strength.
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especially when they are weathered and over 50 to 100 year old brick buildings. Many of these historical buildings most likely haven't been tuck pointed(re-mortarted) over the years, left with gaps through the brick walls.
A lot of these old brick buildings are deathtraps. Firefighters absolutley hate them - the brick walls have a tendency to collapse on top of them when the building catches on fire, and the structural timbers burn like fireworks since they are often treated with creosote.
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That's old masonry that fell, and the high rise behind it is still standing and wearing its skin.
Brick walls fail because mortar has no tensile strength.
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especially when they are weathered and over 50 to 100 year old brick buildings. Many of these historical
buildings most likely haven't been tuck pointed(re-mortarted) over the years, left with gaps through the
brick walls.
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I agree, a lot of those bricks were held together by nothing more than habit. Looks like NO is holding their own right now, but the surge reports NE of there are beginning to stack up.
Besides those issues, some of that surge had to make it into Lake P. with second landfall occuring south of Pearlington. Right now I'm hoping the drought absorbed most of that portion of it.