Breaking-partial building collapse New Orleans

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Posted: 10/12/2019 11:16:03 AM EDT

Less than a block from our hotel. At least 8 injured. Saw multiple EMS running code 3.

https://www.wwltv.com/mobile/article/news/local/hard-rock-hotel-collapses-on-canal-street/289-930d2437-69fa-4993-a41e-0bd480274f44

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:23:48 AM EDT

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Holy shit

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:26:35 AM EDT

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Damn

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:27:36 AM EDT

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Yikes, how does that happen?

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:29:55 AM EDT

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BeeGees?

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:31:08 AM EDT

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Gravity mostly

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:33:16 AM EDT

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Looks like a crane collapsed or lost a load that hit the building.

eta: maybe not.

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:34:32 AM EDT

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Our room is on the opposite side, so we didn't hear a thing. Just walked out to see it being roped off.

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:34:52 AM EDT

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Hard Rock Hotel collapse in New Orleans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_LxF8IjH3s

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:36:39 AM EDT

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Holy crap!!!

Hard Rock Hotel collapse in New Orleans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_LxF8IjH3s

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:44:11 AM EDT

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There were definitely people under that.

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:45:08 AM EDT

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Video looks like a construction workers nightmare.
Bad day all around.
Saw a gymnasium at a school collapse when they were setting steel.

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:48:50 AM EDT

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Holy shit!

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:49:04 AM EDT

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It was clear that a number of the workers were shook up.

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:49:35 AM EDT

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No shit!

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:50:14 AM EDT

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Someone's getting fired and/or going to jail.

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:52:44 AM EDT

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Women engineers.

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:54:30 AM EDT

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There were definitely people under that.

At least one can be seen that outran it

Impressive

Posted: 10/12/2019 11:58:52 AM EDT

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Jet fuel can't melt steel beams!

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:00:10 PM EDT

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It looks like there was an object just to the left of the street lights that may have caused part of the collapse, it comes down with the floors right where it begins to fail.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:05:54 PM EDT

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The collapse started at the further end of the building before the beginning of the video. There's debris dust at the further end of the building at the very start of the video.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:06:53 PM EDT

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There were definitely people under that.

At least one can be seen that outran it

Impressive

They were from Kenya.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:11:41 PM EDT

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Ouch.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:14:07 PM EDT

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Im surprised so many floors pancaked.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:15:24 PM EDT

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Probably time to close down from being an engineer and maybe try your hand at something else like floristry.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:15:55 PM EDT

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Wow, it did look like some of the people running were hit.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:15:59 PM EDT

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This is what happens when you design a crappy cheap building and pay off the inspectors.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:16:25 PM EDT

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What I was going to post.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:17:19 PM EDT

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That will have long-lasting consequences for many people. The financial implications alone are enormous.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:18:02 PM EDT

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One case where recording vertically is acceptable.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:24:07 PM EDT

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When a construction site is within walking distance of 500 open bars

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:27:12 PM EDT

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Did not expect to see people die when I clicked on this but I probably did.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:29:24 PM EDT

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Oh shit.

Well, it that is not an 'oh shit' moment, you are rather jaded.

And most people call me jaded.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:30:45 PM EDT

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Careful, telling the truth is looked down upon nowadays.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:36:14 PM EDT

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holy shit

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:38:08 PM EDT

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One dead. Three missing.

https://www.nola.com/news/article_1df7303e-ecfe-11e9-88d2-cb66b5309a90.html#targetText=Three%20people%20are%20missing%2C%20and%20one%20person%20has%20died.,-Staff%20photo&targetText=The%20outside%20of%20the%20Hard%20Cafe%20in%20New%20Orleans%20after%20it%20collapsed.,-BY%20SCOTT%20THRELKELD&targetText=A%20worker%20is%20helped%20after%20a%20construction%20crane%20collapsed%20at,%2C%20Oct.%2012%2C%202019

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:42:31 PM EDT

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Oh my God.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:44:36 PM EDT

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I'd wouldn't want to be one of the crane operators stuck up there.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:47:03 PM EDT

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First thought that came to mind when I saw the pic you posted.
Nowhere to go but down. At least the folks at ground level had a chance by running.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:49:45 PM EDT

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I was just going to ask if this is where the bridge team ended up.

If only there was some way to know in advance whether or not these things were going to be strong enough ....

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:50:48 PM EDT

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Nothing worse than climbing down with a pants load of , well you know.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:51:09 PM EDT

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Wow. One confirmed fatality 3 missing. Thank God it happened on a Saturday otherwise I believe that body count would have gone way up.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:52:36 PM EDT

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My younger brother still lives there. He said they had some pretty bad weather last night with high winds and that started it. The workers building it also attribute the high winds as the catalyst.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:54:00 PM EDT

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Crane on the left looks tilted... Bet that guy shit himself and made a record decent down that ladder

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:56:19 PM EDT

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H1B1 'engineers' is my guess.

Hopefully, injuries will be minor.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:56:51 PM EDT

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High wind should not impact a building of that size/ construction.

Posted: 10/12/2019 12:59:21 PM EDT

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I don't know about the design, that will out. But paying off the fire inspector in my hometown is a thing, I would expect the building inspectors make good baksheesh too. Right up til they kill someone with their professional negligence.