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Parking garage collapses in NYC, officials warn injuries, death totals may ‘change rapidly’
NY Post ^
| 4/18/23
| Joe Marino and Craig McCarthy
Posted on 04/18/2023 2:00:19 PM PDT by CaptainK
Multiple people were trapped Tuesday after a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan, officials said.
Shocking footage from the scene shows multiple cars on top of the concave roof as a woman get can be heard screaming, “Get out!”
A total of three people were hurt, two minor and one more serious but not critical, according to fire officials, but that number was expected to increase.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: collapse; garage; jimknowsdonors; manhattan; nyc
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To: CaptainK
I'd be interested in when the parking deck was made, especially in light (pardon the pun) of the weight of EV's. A valid concern is EV weights if the deck was built when the norm for cars was since the late 1980's. But if the parking deck was built 5 decades ago that's different. (My wife's 2022 EV crossover weighs 1,000 lbs less than my first car, made in 1974; but the EV weighs more than the 2006 ICE crossover she drove before the EV.)
Of course, when I toured NYC 4 or 5 years ago I saw few EV's, but that might have changed. NYC might have a bunch of folks with EV's now even though EV's are horrible in cold weather.
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:17:31 PM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: BenLurkin
To: CaptainK
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:18:06 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: CaptainK
I hate parking garages. They all seem dangerous.
But I’m a country boy.
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:18:09 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: Larry Lucido
Urine isn’t good for concrete...
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:18:38 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: rfp1234
Hah!
And Staci Abrams!
A RINO and a hippo. 🫢
To: BenLurkin
Looks overloaded to me. If they’re charging for parking, it looks like there’s a little greed involved.
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:18:54 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
To: janetjanet998
Storage or super tight valet parking
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:19:09 PM PDT
by
OHPatriot
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: Jonty30
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:21:50 PM PDT
by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
To: CaptainK
Manhattan’s gettin’ a lot of ink and air this past week
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:22:55 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
To: Brilliant
Did Ayn Rand call it or what?
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:23:24 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
To: srmanuel
Yep, lets just wait for the government to fix our infrastructure... (Do I need a sarc tag?)
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:24:15 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: gundog
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:25:13 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: CaptainK
Cranes like in a 70s movie about a super jammed highway. I forget the title.
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:26:51 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
Was it the same female engineering team that built that pedestrian bridge?
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:27:23 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
To: CaptainK
Related:
Experts fear deteriorating parking lots could collapse under the weight of heavy electric vehicles, says report Isobel van Hagen
Apr 9, 2023, 10:05 AM
As the popularity of electric cars grows, some experts are concerned that the heavy weight of electric vehicles could cause multi-level parking lots in the UK to collapse.
Due to the aging infrastructure of many parking garages in the country, engineers said that the amount of weight the buildings can hold should be raised and that maintenance of parking lots should be improved, according to a report by The Telegraph.
"I don't want to be too alarmist, but there definitely is the potential for some of the early car parks in poor condition to collapse," Chris Whapples, a structural engineer and car park consultant, told The Telegraph.
Steve Holmes, senior technical manager at building supply firm Sika, also told the news outlet that many parking lots in the UK had structural flaws "baked in" due to a general lack of maintenance.
-Excerpt.
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:33:20 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: Larry Lucido
there was a warning in a U.K. paper about just that in their ramps
To: Ex-Episcopalian
To: CaptainK
To: CaptainK
Climate Change in 10, 9, 8, 7,. ....
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posted on
04/18/2023 2:37:25 PM PDT
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) )
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