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SEG Plaza evacuation: Shaking 70 story China skyscraper sends shoppers fleeing
BBC news ^ | 05/18/2021

Posted on 05/19/2021 8:18:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Sum Ting Wong.


21 posted on 05/19/2021 10:02:26 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: bigbob
if that sucker falls down it will wreck the electronics markets.
Both should be a wakeup call to everyone that deals with those Communist America hating crooks, including you.
22 posted on 05/19/2021 10:13:14 PM PDT by lewislynn ( How long before they replace Martin Luther King Blvd with George Floyd Blvd?)
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To: Covenantor

Makes sense


23 posted on 05/20/2021 12:04:35 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course they have building codes.

They have to have building codes so the government bureaucrats have a reason for the developers to bribe them. Developers won’t pay bribes if there are no rules to get around.


24 posted on 05/20/2021 12:34:35 AM PDT by sloanrb
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To: OrangeHoof

Isn’t he related to Ho Lee Chit?


25 posted on 05/20/2021 2:19:03 AM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: noiseman

...and the new horizontal layout provides many more penthouse units.

Marketing genius!


26 posted on 05/20/2021 4:42:24 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: noiseman

Garden apartments with skylights.


27 posted on 05/20/2021 4:45:41 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Did the people flee to Three Rivers Gorge?


28 posted on 05/20/2021 4:48:45 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Except bears. Bears will definitely kill you.)
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To: Ozark Tom
On the bright side, the building stayed wonderfully intact after the foundation failed, allowing the structure to fall over upon it’s side!

That's the biggest surprise at first glance.

Notice the base of the building embedded in the loose soil while the upper portion is much higher. Excavated loose soil was piled fairly high and acted as near fluid cushion. Speaks to the lack of structural bearing analysis....the uprooted visible foundation piles attest to that.

Somebody misplaced a few beads on the abacus while calculating...

;>)

29 posted on 05/20/2021 4:55:46 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Here’s you Made in China sign.


30 posted on 05/20/2021 10:14:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: SeekAndFind

You would think that all buildings in a few thousand feet will have to stay unoccupied until that building is dismantled and the engineers shot.


31 posted on 05/20/2021 10:37:55 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

China doesn’t need building codes when the superiority of the Chinese Communist Party is so completely obvious!

LOL!!!


32 posted on 05/20/2021 12:36:51 PM PDT by MercyFlush (Senator Joseph McCarthy was right. )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
If Chinese buildings hadn't tipped over before, due to poor foundations and/or poor engineering, I'd suspect a covert weapon test.

33 posted on 05/21/2021 1:58:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BradyLS

Rebar? You mean chicken wire?


34 posted on 05/21/2021 2:33:55 PM PDT by GOPJ (Liz Cheney: There was NO VOTER FRAUD Winston. YOU agree Winston? How many fingers Winston...?)
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To: SunkenCiv
What did they use for foundation footings...toothpicks?


35 posted on 05/21/2021 6:56:12 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Cwnfusi swy et bwter twoo eet kat frem wesrwant tan weinforce bwlding wif stel fwm chyna


36 posted on 05/21/2021 7:10:09 PM PDT by TBall
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To: Fred Nerks

“All the units are ruined, so make sure they don’t get their deposits back.”


37 posted on 05/21/2021 7:15:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: GOPJ

That’s not chicken wire. /rimshot


38 posted on 05/21/2021 7:18:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: GOPJ

👍🏼


39 posted on 05/21/2021 7:19:30 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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