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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One thing threads ALL these stories - we hear them thru the media.
That’s the Mockingbird eneMedia.
There are NO coincidences anymore.
How about when an EV catches fire in a parking garage?
That would be fun.
Update... 1 dead, 5 injured.
Climate change compromised the concrete?
If you look at one of the pictures of a section that didn’t collapse, it shows ~8-10 parking spaces with another ~8-10 cars parked in the driving isle.
That could easily double the weight on the floor, probably pushing it to the design limit.
Illegal-immigrant constructed, shoddy materials purchased by mafioso contractor. Developer overcharged. Not a Trump project. Educated guess.
that’s no regular car park and prolly way overloaded for spec...
the way they’re packed like sardines that’s a car term storage park
IMHO, very likely. Looks like abort 10-12 normal spaces, with 2-3 shoehorned in on the sides and another 9 parked in the drive isles. They appear to have doubled the capacity ion the ONE section of roof.
Who knows what the rest looked liked.
Ain’t EV’s grand???
A news channel said they were told the building dates back to 1925.
Alvin “Fort” Bragg
New York Sheriff’s Department parks vehicles there.
57 Ann St - been watching local news from NYC
Building was made in 1955 Probably overloaded
Original certificate said 5 cars per floor From video lot more cars than that, especially if double stacking
Heavier cars then, but larger footprint.
Always take commuter rail out of Connecticut and then either subway, Uber, or walk around town.
My train had already left Manhattan when this event occurred.
Stuff like that also happened back in the not so good old days of the 1970s.
Or a bomb.
too many collapses, fires, explosions, derailments to be chance. We are looking at terrorism.
NYC is a sh*thole.
Highly likely. The video from the dash cam of the car in the level second from the top shows how the area that collapsed was the portion of the second deck that was not under cover. The suspicion would be that the area was exposed to leaks that weakened the concrete and steel. The covered areas appeared to hold up.
A couple of generations ago, there's no way that tiny woman would have qualified as a "fire fighter" (used to be firemen). Yet she's at the scene of the garage collapse, taking up space that could be occupied by a man who could be of use.
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