“The people in the building and downstairs fled for their lives!” read the caption to one of the Twitter clips, which depicts petrified shoppers stampeding across a plaza like scene out of a monster movie.
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Someone’s gotta do it: Building Architect Sum Ting Wong refused to comment.
The Harbor Freight Tower.
Meanwhile, up in the penthouse, Kamel Toe and NORK Fat Boy accidentally find the resonant frequency of the building!
Don’t tell me. When the building sways, it makes a *chink* sound.
No doubt designed by a highly touted Chinese architect who got a ‘C’ in dynamics and completely failed the ‘wind loading’ portion of the class.
But the architectural firm got an A+ for diversity hiring practices.
Incompetent architects. Tall buildings shouldn’t have resonant frequencies OR should have oscillation damping built-in.
If wind turbulence takes on a characteristic frequency the same as or close to the resonant frequency of the building, the wind can be quite mild yet still cause high amplitude swaying and ultimately structural failure. *CRASH!*
Ho Lee Fuk
Sum Ting Wong
Wi Tu Lo
The results when you can’t design but have the reverse engineering thing down pat.
The lumber structural timbers were found to be infested with Formosan termites.
Tip it over. On the bottom you will find the words, “Made in China”.
I guarantee it.
They still use bamboo scaffolding while building skyscrapers.
Gonna be fun watching the Chinese attempt a moon landing.
Any moon landing will be fake. Just like always.
Building was infested by 5 foot 2 communist termites.
That’s OK, when it falls down Walmart and Cosco will buy the debris and resale it to the US Military for replacement material (the big guy will get his cut)!
Imagine that. A nation full of Asians and not one did the math right when designing the building.
Jethro, 1:28
…and bamboo rebar.
Please put the entire federal government in it.
@PHenry – sounds like it may tip itself over.
As likely the concrete as the architects. China has its own version of the Mafia.
This is the problem with the current crop of engineers; they depend on computers too much, and have no real-world experience to draw on. I remember a military flight instructor commenting about training Asians (Koreans). They always showed up on time, and could recite the manuals from memory, but had no initiative or instinct that enabled them to get out of situations that weren’t in the textbooks.
So they copied the USX building in Pittsburgh – just WITHOUT the STEEL superstructure! 😮
BRILLIANT! 🙄
Tony R -the anti-social engineer. MAY 22, 2021 AT 5:15 PM
In the “You ain’t gonna believe this one…” category.
Had a friend who held the record where he was training the Koreans to fly and was having some difficulty doing it. Landings seemed to present a problem most often. THREE CRASHES IN ONE DAY! And survived to be found at the Officers Club pounding down martinis like water. Other WWII stories from him not so funny or pretty. Shot down and captured twice. Escaped once and the second capture was worse as he described (by our allies the Russians).
Sounds like they stole USA architectural secrets which were intentionally flawed and the Chicoms were giddy that they one upped the USA. (My thinking has some conspiracy porn to it). 🙂
If the shoppers were petrified, how could they stampede?