Posted on 03/03/2009 9:48:03 AM PST by 444Flyer
COLOGNE, Germany-A building housing Cologne city archives shook and then collapsed into a pile of rubble Tuesday. Many people inside were able to flee to safety, but nine people are reported missing.
The collapse, which occured about 2 p.m., also dragged down part of a neighboring building.
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Bush’s fault.
If only Chimpy Bushitler hadn’t squandered all those Euros on his illegal genocidal Cheney/Halliburton war for oil, there would have been enough to make German buildings safe.
Does anybody have a guess at what could cause such a large scale structural collapse?
Sounds like they were tunneling right under the thing to build a subway.
The building has a history of cracks in basement walls. They were determined to be insignificant but I’m sure they will be rethinking that now.
There is also work being done underground on the subway but right now they are saying that should not have been a problem.
Maybe they put too many archives on the upper floors.
Tunneling is always a danger, even when the engineers say there is no risk. It can be as simple as a change in groundwater levels causing part of the foundation to shift.
There is also work being done underground on the subway but right now they are saying that should not have been a problem.”
Does anyone here think that any politician will ever admit that their mass transit subways- trains- whatever are ever dangerous? To the above ground structures or whatever? NEVER......
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