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To: RonF

How can a city sink like that and not have problems with the integrity of building foundations?


57 posted on 08/30/2005 1:32:21 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: The Red Zone
How can a city sink like that and not have problems with the integrity of building foundations?

They do have problems. A friend who was raised there said one of the problems with the older structures was chimney collapse. A little loss of integrity in the foundation and the heaviest part of the structure (the chimney) comes crashing down.

93 posted on 08/30/2005 2:24:04 PM PDT by Don Carlos (Me cache en los Moros. (Ancient Spanish curse))
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