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SF Millennium Tower Tilts Quarter Inch in Four Days
NBC Bay Area ^
| 7 Dec 2021
| Jaxon Van Derbeken
Posted on 12/08/2021 7:10:59 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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Nearby rooftop seats could be a moneymaker. Not too close.
Seatbelts for couch potatoes? Bedside airbags?
Pay per view with inside and outside views? Plus a toilet cam to gauge the angle of the dangle...
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:10:59 AM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
What a bust. I can’t believe anybody’s a tenant in there anymore.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:13:04 AM PST
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: Jim W N
Put some crap and needles under the corner.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:15:23 AM PST
by
bray
(Our patience is wearing thin Joe)
To: DUMBGRUNT
The Architect Sketch in real life.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:16:37 AM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Let's start a pool to guess when it falls.
Nobody will have the guts to order its destruction before it falls and I don't see any engineering solutions being implemented in time either.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:17:06 AM PST
by
G Larry
(The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
To: DUMBGRUNT
A perfect shelter for the ‘homeless’.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:18:05 AM PST
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: DUMBGRUNT
Looks like we’re dealing with “experts” again,as the article states. Waiting for the first expert to blame....climate change!
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:19:33 AM PST
by
4yearlurker
(Freedom is just an injection away Comrades.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Put all the homeless on the high side to level it again.
To: DUMBGRUNT
Please someone have 4K video recording the tower 24/7.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:25:19 AM PST
by
ctdonath2
(Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
To: Rurudyne
The Architect Sketch in real life.
All that is left is for it to spontaneously burst into flames.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:26:19 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Somebody doing the earthquake prayer dance 24/7....
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:28:32 AM PST
by
Covenantor
(We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
To: DUMBGRUNT
So the city knows this thing is leaning. If it falls tomorrow how liable is the city?
To: dynachrome
I predict legitimate renters will abandon the building. It will fill up with homeless and illegal aliens. They will wreck the inside of the building. The leftist government won’t do anything because “the poor have a right to a home.” Eventually, the delapidated building will collapse. It will be a disaster. The Democrats will blame it on capitalism, climate change, or systemic racism.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:29:04 AM PST
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Anyone else pause the video when they showed the graph? Looks like over 1.5” of settling since January of this year. Whatever was going on in July and August had it sinking at a pretty good rate. The spread of readings means the sinking is not uniform - adding stresses... I’m not a building/civil engineer but...this does not look good. It looks like it is going to need significant intervention/remediation or it is going to break up and come down.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:33:24 AM PST
by
ThunderSleeps
(Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
From the article:
...Ron Hamburger, the fix designer, recently assured city officials that the settlement that has occurred during testing of new methods designed to limit sinking is within expected levels. Hamburger now has city permission to install two more test piles.
Does each installed test pile increase the lean by 1/4 inch? If so, here's another 1/2 inch.
What a bunch of dodos.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:34:21 AM PST
by
upchuck
(The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
To: G Larry
—”I don’t see any engineering solutions being implemented in time either.”
More than likely the new piles going all the way to bedrock will do the job, unlike the original friction piles.
Plus they have a fair chance to collect from a nearby construction project for dewatering?
And It is the Salesforce Transit Center??? Owned by the taxpayers???
If needed there will be a bazillion attorneys holding the building up for some of that lawsuit.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:36:36 AM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: 4yearlurker
“Climate change” caused the SF earthquake of 1906.
It was all those autos on the road and planes in the sky!
(Then some “experts” decided it was a good idea to use the rubble from the quake as the “bed-rock” for the rebuilt city.)
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:39:36 AM PST
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
They still use toilets in SF?
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:43:22 AM PST
by
bgill
(Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
To: Wilhelm Tell
haha - you’d think your statement would make a good joke, except we both know you’re probably spot on.
Obviously an endless discussion on ‘white supremacy’.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:44:13 AM PST
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: upchuck
—”Does each installed test pile increase the lean by 1/4 inch? If so, here’s another 1/2 inch.”
IIRC from other reading, and that is questionable, it is their professional opinion, over time the opposite side on the original friction piles will settle enough right the building.
Also, they changed the procedure for the newst piles.
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posted on
12/08/2021 7:44:54 AM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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