Posted on 02/17/2020 2:37:05 AM PST by topher
[Intro by poster topher] Two bodies still trapped under wreckage after 4 months...
NEW ORLEANS —
Four months after the Hard Rock hotel construction site on Canal Street collapsed, the mangled concrete and twisted steel still looms over downtown New Orleans.
On the border of the collapse zone, a memorial for the three men killed in the collapse continues to grow. Advertisement
The site has become a landmark, with visitors and locals stopping to take pictures and write messages on ribbons for the families of Anthony Magrette, Jose Ponce Arreola and Quinnyon Wimberley, who died when the building fell Oct. 12, 2019.
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Besides, New Orleans is built on a swamp below sea level.
Big bang coming in March, maybe..
In their most recent update, city leaders said the Hard Rock
developer, 1031 Canal, has hired the company D.H. Griffin to
implode the site in mid-March.
>>maybe they used the same engineers who built the pedestrian bridge that collapsed in South Florida.
Houston made that mistake.
Difference was in State/local governments - and quality of people...
NOLA is a Leftist enclave and nobody wanted to roll up their sleeves and get to work - they wanted the government to do it all and the government was incompetent.
In MS, cleanup started immediately and the citizens worked to take care of their own properties...can still remember folks who escaped major damage, sitting on their porches and waiting for those who read their signs
“Have A/C and water - if you need a break and/or shower and a meal, you are welcome”
Local store owners also worked with relief folks to dispense water and to allow folks to ‘clean them out” before FEMA and other agencies had a good foothold to provide basics.
Perhaps I made a mistake with my “make plans for the site” part of the comment...point is, we wouldn’t allow the company to leave the site an eyesore and leave unrecovered remains withing.
I’m sure that comes into play - people who had no pride in the area before won’t afterwards, either.
A lot of NJ people simply didn’t have the money to fix the homes - especially considering they’d have to be raised on pilings. Since many were vacation homes, they weren’t covered by insurance. If you’ve seen some of the raised homes, you wouldn’t even want them anymore; some have ridiculous stairways now to get to the new (higher) front door.
Another real problem was people living in illegal basement apartments; many insurance policies didn’t cover them, and some were in very wealthy areas (like Hoboken NJ) where rents even for those apartments is high. Those people (the tenants) were covered for nothing, and the owners weren’t covered for the work they’d done in illegally converting the basements to living space.
Those factors can be overcome with friction pilings and the like, but it can’t be done on the “cheap”.
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