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Favorite Comment(s!): Fixer Demetrius says, “You misunderstand… The woman on the 4th floor is dating a stilt-walker.”
Reply: Fixer Jompe71 says, “…and what a naughty woman. Three of ’em at once!”
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I can’t decide if I should be worried about all the electrical wires or the planks propping the building up.
My crystal ball sees a return of the woodchuck debate.
Do they have woodchucks in Nepal?
they’d better HOPE they don’t have woodchucks! (or beavers…..)
Heck with the electrical wires, they are replaceable. I’d be a lot more worried about the People Still Living And Working In The Building, and the People Walking By in the collapse radius.
This looks suspiciously like “We propped it up, Okay we’re done. It’s good for another 50 years.”
Hell, that’s all earthquake restoration is most of the time. You should see the interesting ways they’ve propped up buildings in Seattle. Speaking as an architecture student, I’ll bet you a thousand dollars it holds for fifty years. People don’t give buildings enough credit, particularly ones that have lasted a while already.
That does not look healthy.
Where is OSHA when you need them?
O yeah, that’s right, all our jobs were sent to China, cause without OSHA, they had less overhead!
Another fine Lincoln Log construction.
We do that in the UK as well – view “356 Morningside Road, Edinburgh” on Google maps. Above the single pair of shops, there is a wooden brace keeping up the side of the building along with some metal staples keep the walls together.
Wow. Not quite as scary, but still!
If I were the Chatterbox Bakery & Takeaway, I’d be a little concerned.
Also: I love technology
Obama’s urban renewal plan…
As the president of Nepal?
select * from areas_for_sale where major_risk > 0
… 1 row returned.
( The empty slot behind the blue curtain. )
I don’t know, it could go the other way.
PLACE YER BETS!
Could bey, but the view of the shot hides the 34 sticks holding the building up from the other side.
Love the SQL comment.
I think it’s a brilliant fix. If that building had been allowed to continue to migrate, it would have ended up in the street in no time. Then where would all those pedestrians be?
Just out of frame is the Incident Command Post the owners were courteous enough to set up for the inevitable collapse.
Oh my god! If that building collapses, all of those shirts hung out to dry will be ruined!
“Now, this store is expensive, so brace yourself…”
The blue tarp in the back is a nice touch…Hey fema doesnt go to nepal do they
Now we know what is supporting Microsofts support center. Third party support? “Press 3 if an additional pole is required”. Are they required to pay a pole tax? The Polish Embassy?
Newly listed! One-bedroom flats, eight total, each with balcony access. All share a communal bathroom at the end of each hall. Recent renovations! These are going fast!
Correction: SOON to be flats.
Either way, “flats” would be appropriate.
@ jimpem: I would hope so. Stilettos would be totally over-dressy.
I would be worried about a really big teenager kicking a plank out….
The tenants got together and demanded fire escape access! Their landlord (primate curator at the zoo) did things on the cheap as usual.
There must be a crowd of people camped out in front of this thing just waiting to scream “JENGA!”
I see what happened. There was a building where the blue tarp is hung, and for whatever reason, that collapsed, but not the corner building. Which is kind of “huh”, because they must have shared a wall. So actually, all they need to do is remove the debris and either build another building or put in supports.
This is an clearly advertising stunt. The blue street signs say, “Watch for falling prices (and bricks).”
You misunderstand… The woman on the 4th floor is dating a stilt-walker.
…and what a naughty woman. Three of’em at once!
The building was being supported by it`s ties to the empty gap behind, where I`m sure they`re installing a new building shortly. After that, the posts, which are joined to the window headers (actually a good spot) can be removed. It probably works really well, actually, but sure looks crazy!
O my Gawd, the bar’s collapsing! Somebody save the beer!
Actually this is the normal practice in Nepal.
I still maintain there are not enough posts in this forum.
India’s Olympic pole vaulting team really likes to show off don’t they?
They’re using giant chopsticks to eat those yummy motorcycles.
A fine example of that rarely used feature of Gothic architecture – crashing buttresses
Now kids, I know we are moving but the rule about not running in the house goes doubly important in our new place. Are we Clear?
Didn’t this building actually come done not too long ago?
Godzilla had enough at the all you an eat building buffet and left his chopsticks behind