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Hurricane 1: Construction Crane 0
Nature came, saw, and showed the city that never sleeps and those for whom money is no object in exchange for a penthouse apartment in the very same building, what a true "master of the universe" is. The actual crane collapse clip below...
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Wow....should have lowered the boom on that tower crane and chained-cabled it down. Accident waiting to happen.
Maybe because nobody was expecting the storm to arrive so soon + it was just the weekend?
Just speculating..
And the fucktard running the show thinks a 32oz drink is the most dangerous thing you have to worry about in that city...
blew the crane down in a wild gust of 20mph
A quote from the Telegraph:
"Police cars and fire engines line 8th Avenue to the south and a crowd of hardy onlookers is clustered in front of the police tape at the crossing of 57th and 8th. All are soaking wet: the rain is almost horizontal.
High above the street, one block ahead, the crane on the One57 tower is folded back on itself and swaying in the wind. One firefighter from Ladder 25 shakes his head: "they're working out what to do - but the options aren't good, even in better weather."
He reckons the crane will likely come down in the winds: "It'll fall straight, it's too heavy to go flying through the air. The danger is if it goes through a gas line in the street." The alternative he says, is to install a larger crane on the building to winch up the other. "But that's way above my pay grade", he laughs."
Twitter pic: https://twitter.com/cmwdotme/status/262999259257909249/photo/1
I found another copy of the video since this one is no longer working.
VIDEO: NYC Crane Collapses During Hurricane Sandy
oh noes
No surprise, the dumb asses built a horizontal building. Happens every time. ;-)
I am pissing myself with your humour, you should be on stage
vertical?
At least it didn't start facing the street and the boom was over the building.
Why didn't they lower the boom and secure the hook to the superstructure?
Doesn't look like there is enough "sail" to that boom to lift it up and over, but I suppose the winds at that altitude were enough.
It would have interupted their "Foukin cooffee break" Plus those union pricks know it all anyway. Overpaid and underbrained.
That ain't no collapse..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxM83_hHJC8 now thats a collapse..
now that was a Headache
Called, Crane Technique...if done right, no can defence.
Viral Viagra commercial.
It was up 3 hours and 59 minutes.
This is why you take your crane to the hospital if the erection lasts too long.
Over/Under on the body of the crane tumbling down and finishing the job? The whole assembly 'bent' when the boom hit the cab.
Oh Sandy
My crane and penthouse
You are taking
And the markets you closed
Oh Sandy
Hurricane might make the crane an endangered species.
Does this remind anyone of a limp organ? :p
No one saw it coming.
bad
No, funny cute. Plus she's never dirty much.
It was bad as in naughty.
Ahhh! Apologies my love!
<bow>
It saw this http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=ht62qr&s=6
(this cannot be erased with mental floss, you've been warned)
Tell it about all the QE that's coming in the form of Obama's upcoming "this-isn't buying-your-vote-this-is-disaster-relief!" program. That should get it hard again.
Looks like a good day for hang-gliding!
the angle of the dangle is equal to the <fill in your favorite>
Leakage of her Cleavage?
The strain on your crane.
square of the hair
mass of the ass
cube of the pube
depravity of the gravity.
The guilding on the building.
Parabolic rise, ultimate demise ;0
;-)
cower of the tower.
speaking of cows, are you UDDER water, milk dude?
Square root of the chute
Kind of the opposite of that earlier Canadian infographic.
Watching this made me think that Sandy is the perfect excuse for everything that is about to go drastically wrong over the next 14 months. In truth, it wasn't Hurricane Sandy, but that will be the excuse given for the pulling the curtain back (or insert your own cliched analogy).
Long Irish whiskey.
Gold, bitchez!
I wonder if the beams on that tower can hold up better to flamming jet fuel.
Yep, none of that pesky asbestos in the new model...
why bother with jet fuel when you have a death ray
Death ray? Do mean the fingers of HAARP?
Irene: http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tc/2011_09L/webManager/displayGifsBy12hr_06.html
Sandy: http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tc/2012_18L/webManager/displayGifsBy12hr_10.html
Hurricrane
Thank goodness no fuel oil tanks in that incomplete building to catch fire and make it fall on its own footprint!
That looks like what Bernanke is doing to the dollar. On top one day then crash!
someone did a reverse-cowgirl on that thing.
Maybe they should just leave the dangling crane on the side of that building permanently. At least it adds interest to what is otherwise an architectural eyesore with all the charm of a pre-soviet housing project.
Flash crash
Has it fallen and landed on some broker's Bentley yet?
rains, cranes and city-submerge
This is like Sub-Prime....NO ONE, and I repeat NO ONE could have seen this coming!
l0l
Get the markets back up- can't take more mother nature v bankers. I want HFT ramps.
Uttt-Ohhh... Dear Hubby worked commercial construction for 40 years... the wind did not do that, someone was in the crane and tightened the cable too far.... and over it went. They may have been trying to move it to a more secure position, but the wind/Sandy did not do that.
That makes sense. Somebody screwed up, big time.
Time for a cigarette.
Hey, that's what Sandy said! She always likes a smoke after coming....
LOL
Just a wet, sloppy mess now
Real estate never goes down.
but Realtards will if they want that sale bad enough.
made in China.
The rain on the crane falls mainly on the campaign?
Scores of Twitter users have flooded the social networking site announcing their plans to go on looting sprees once Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, as the New York National Guard announced it would put troops on duty in Long Island to prevent such activity.
Bullish!
“Of 129 retailers surveyed by the National Retail Federation, nearly 95 percent said they were victimized by organized criminals in the past year and 85 percent said the problem has worsened over the past three years,” .
Forward!
Well yeah 95% have to pay some tax or another or get a visit from the IRS/city tax collectors thugs.
I hear RE in Atlantic City is booming(to the ground).
Sandy can be such a bitch.
BULLISH!!!..........RIGHT?
Placerville, you have made my night. Fuckin-A.
This video is private.
Cannot see the video. It states "THIS VIDEO IS PRIVATE".
And long did they have to secure this crane or take it down before the storm hit... 4-5 days?
Ridiculous.
dammit! i always get here right after they shut the party down
I see you!
Bullish?