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To: Homer1

I have always thought, I would never have gone there for a shelter. NEVER. How tall is the structure, must be one of the highest buildings, easier for the wind to reach.


130 posted on 09/07/2005 9:03:35 PM PDT by freema (Ready to Rock AND Roll)
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To: freema

I have always thought, I would never have gone there for a shelter. NEVER. How tall is the structure, must be one of the highest buildings, easier for the wind to reach.



It is a big round wing. A giant Frisbee.

What does a Frisbee do when placed in a rapidly moving airstream?

Can you imagine the horror if the wind had lifted that "wing" aloft? (I'd be very surprised if the architects relied on much more than gravity to hold that immense roof to the building.)

It would have lifted up a few feet -- and then dropped back down, and broken into thousands of huge, jagged concrete boulders, which would have made short work of the poor bastards huddled three hundred feet beneath it.


192 posted on 09/07/2005 10:33:13 PM PDT by Tom Thumbs
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