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Thousands evacuated near Sydney high-rise after cracking noises spur fears of collapse
Fox News ^ | 12/24/2018 | Travis Fedschun

Posted on 12/24/2018 7:23:03 AM PST by DFG

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To: DFG

The Leaning Tower of Sydney. It leans the other way.


21 posted on 12/24/2018 7:59:32 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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To: pepsionice

“The key thing here is that it’s only been ‘open’ for about a hundred days. I watched some fire safety interviews on this from Sydney, and they hinted that it’ll be at least ten days before a real assessment can be released. A 1 to 2 cm lean has been detected since the noise.”

Well, San Francisco has one of those “tiltin’ Hiltons” too, so it makes sense, since SF and Sydney are “sister cities!”


22 posted on 12/24/2018 7:59:46 AM PST by vette6387
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To: CondorFlight

<><> A resident was hitting golf balls in her $4million Millenium Tower apartment. The golf balls always landed in the same corner. Conclusion: the bldg was tilting.

<><> Sometime later, picture windows were cracking. Conclusion: engineer said the bldg’s facade was separating from the structure itself.


23 posted on 12/24/2018 8:00:06 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Cold Heart

California will still have it’s high speed taxes.

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I heard that California is considering a tax on Texting.


24 posted on 12/24/2018 8:00:32 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: CondorFlight

One would have thought CA learned a lesson after the 1906 quake that killed an untold number in the thousands. Many lessons later and in 1989 a hwy collapsed and buildings built on fill/soft sand, surprise!, fell down.


25 posted on 12/24/2018 8:00:36 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: mewzilla

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/olympic-park-residents-make-new-sleeping-arrangements-after-christmas-eve-evacuation-20181224-p50o5h.html

Per above, 51 of the 392 units have been declared unsafe.


26 posted on 12/24/2018 8:03:20 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: DFG

Forum thread with some local opinions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/a91wit/opal_tower_structural_damage_sydney_olympic_park/


27 posted on 12/24/2018 8:05:23 AM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: bgill

***Best to stay in nothing more than two stories tall.***

Wise advice - the possible worst experience is being trapped in an elevator - and when it’s ‘out of service’ -having to walk up or down more than 2 floors. (carrying groceries & trash;)


28 posted on 12/24/2018 8:05:39 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: DFG

Not settling on the 10th floor. More like a weld broke.


29 posted on 12/24/2018 8:05:55 AM PST by Dennis M.
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To: mewzilla

http://turfdesign.com/sydney-reaches-skyward-opal-tower/

Intereresting....


30 posted on 12/24/2018 8:06:42 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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Update, some residents have been allowed to go back, but not the folks in the 51 units declared unsafe...

UPDATE:Multi-agency operation at a Sydney Olympic Park residential tower

31 posted on 12/24/2018 8:17:54 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: DFG

Post-tension cables letting go? Not expected on new construction but quite impressive when it happens on older buildings and you are inside.


32 posted on 12/24/2018 8:24:05 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: mewzilla

> “Update, some residents have been allowed to go back, but not the folks in the 51 units declared unsafe...”

I imagine it is the bottom 51 units.


33 posted on 12/24/2018 8:26:45 AM PST by jim_trent
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To: faucetman

That’s what Hank Johnson blamed it on.

Actually, maybe they did sell all the harbor-side units first.


34 posted on 12/24/2018 8:28:23 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Fester Chugabrew
The Leaning Tower of Sydney. It leans the other way.

Of course it does. It's in the Southern Hemisphere.

35 posted on 12/24/2018 9:20:48 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: highpockets

It’s either Chinese steel or a diverse engineering firm.


36 posted on 12/24/2018 9:24:13 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: jim_trent
I imagine it is the bottom 51 units.

Won't the top units crash into the bottom units?

37 posted on 12/24/2018 9:36:50 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Jim Noble

Sounds like a footings problem.


38 posted on 12/24/2018 9:44:42 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: FatherofFive

> “Won’t the top units crash into the bottom units?”

That is not a bureaucrats problem.


39 posted on 12/24/2018 9:50:37 AM PST by jim_trent
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To: DFG

The Hotel New World collapse (killing 33) was foretold a day earlier by columns cracking. However, these tells were not correctly identified at the time as foretelling the collapse, and the building was not evacuated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Hotel_New_World


40 posted on 12/24/2018 9:56:44 AM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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