Hi-rise hotel under construction in New Orleans collapses

[clapclapclap 9000]

Tweet was from 1.5 hours ago,  update is 13 transported to hospitals, still searching .

 

Edited October 12, 2019 by clapclapclap

[Newdoc 3439]

Better now than with a bunch of guest in it. Hope no one is hurt.

[woohorn 1131]

Looks horrible, esp. if workers were active. Shocked if some of those on ground weren't Abbott'd.

[Bevo 13560]

Seems pretty standard for NO

[Neonmoon 38129]

You can see the workers running on the street 

[miguelito 11252]

holy shit, that's bad for a lot of reasons

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Looks like pancaking, like on the WTC attack.

[Deej 76751]

56 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

You can see the workers running on the street 

Not running fast enough.

[Pasken 1309]

This is a guy:

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

What was happening that a guy just happens to be videoing a construction project?

[Updawg 2266]

Dashcam. He was lucky he had a red light

[Chopper 17230]

Hard Rock Hotel apparently. I've seen their work and it's not all that difficult to believe those assholes would cut corners.

[Prepuce of Doom 21052]

1 hour ago, Pasken said:

This is a guy:

Welcome to Surly, Mr. Collinsworth. 

[Chopper 17230]

More video, including close call shot from inside a street car

aftermath

 

drone

 

 

[Fuck Tim Beck 3815]

It's NO, it looks fine. Just leave it as is. 

[RollLeft 5040]

Quick which public company owns billboards, for lawyers, in New Orleans, i need to buy some stock.  

[Guest Lobo]

I told them Cajun Architect, not Haitian Architect.  

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21052]

1 hour ago, RollLeft said:

Quick which public company owns billboards, for lawyers, in New Orleans, i need to buy some stock.  

That ship has sailed, dude. 

Gordon out front shoulda told ya. 

[Deej 76751]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

I told them Cajun Architect, not aggy Architect.  

 

fify

[WBT 20561]

6 hours ago, RollLeft said:

Quick which public company owns billboards, for lawyers, in New Orleans, i need to buy some stock.  

444-4444

[bluto 4912]

F that, I’d call Betty Blackwell

[clapclapclap 9000]

On 10/12/2019 at 5:14 PM, Fuck Tim Beck said:

It's NO, it looks fine. Just leave it as is. 

Yeah, just market it as a Frank Gehry project.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

I am sure the best and brightest were hired to design and build the hotel. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

The new deconstructivist style 

[Brisketexan 105050]

I am shocked -- SHOCKED -- to find that a construction project in NOLA is perhaps not completely on the up-and-up.

[yoladu 4090]

3 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

The new deconstructivist style 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Just now, yoladu said:

Nice, Coop Himmelblau correct ??  One of my favorite examples of the style even if it completely ignores the original buildings contexturalism.

[Brisketexan 105050]

1 minute ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Nice, Coop Himmelblau correct ??  One of my favorite examples of the style even if it completely ignores the original buildings contexturalism.

It's no Celinto Catayente towers....

[housious 468]

A bunch of lawyers are about to get all lawyery

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

It's no Celinto Catayente towers....

Hey, it's all about seeing buildings in their natural state.

[Brisketexan 105050]

2 minutes ago, housious said:

A bunch of lawyers are about to get all lawyery

It's NOLA, man.  We are assured of the following outcome:

1 - some rich folks will get richer off of this.

2 - poor working folks will remain in the shit, and nothing will change to make life safer for them.

3 - nobody of any wealth or power will face any consequences.

Forget it, Jake....

[SquishMitten 10403]

Quick which public company owns billboards, for lawyers, in New Orleans, i need to buy some stock.  

If you can’t get in on that hustle, invest in yellow paint

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

a construction project in NOLA is perhaps not completely on the up-and-up.

it's not on the up-and-up anymore, that's for sure

[irishtexan 11511]

Two dead and one missing. 

[Blotto 23486]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

It's NOLA, man.  We are assured of the following outcome:

1 - some rich folks will get richer off of this.

2 - poor working folks will remain in the shit, and nothing will change to make life safer for them.

3 - nobody of any wealth or power will face any consequences.

Forget it, Jake....

How would that differ from the rest of the US?

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

1 hour ago, SquishMitten said:

 

If you can’t get in on that hustle, invest in yellow paint crime scene tape.

 

Fixed it - New Orleans style.

[immortal13 4059]

Did they hire aggys to build this?

[Eddyline 116]

There has been an ongoing investigation by the feds into corruption in the New Orleans permitting/inspection department.  Probably all just a crazy coincidence, right?

 https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_636bae40-d644-11e9-bd7d-03e777aed0f8.html

 

[High Plains Drifter 11024]

Looks like something you would see in a 3rd world, corrupt shithole. Someplace, like, oh I don't know, New Orleans?

[High Plains Drifter 11024]

Speaking of 3rd world shitholes, anybody remember this fiasco?

 

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

 

Ocean Tower SPI was an unfinished, 31-story condominium in South Padre Island, Cameron County, Texas, United States, that was imploded when it was deemed unsafe to remain standing. Construction was halted in May 2008 when cracks formed in the building's supporting columns, and investigations revealed that the core of the skyscraper had sunk by more than 14 inches (360 mm). Though the developers initially vowed to fix the problem, studies discovered that repairs would have been too expensive, and plans for its demolition were announced in September 2009. At the time of its controlled implosion in December 2009 the building weighed 55,000 short tons (50,000 t), and it was the tallest reinforced concrete structure to be demolished in that way. It was nicknamed "Faulty Towers" and "The Leaning Tower of South Padre Island".

 

Friend of mine who lived down there at the time got in on this action:

Any materials that could be recycled or resold, including fixtures and fittings, steel, flooring, and windows, were removed from the building before demolition

 

They just opened it up and anybody could come in and take whatever they could safely remove. Then you paid some fraction of the actual cost. Sort of like when you salvage a door panel for your 85 Oldsmobile from a junkyard.

 

 

[hopkinsnhorns 533]

I'm surprised anyone in SPI was worldly enough to know of Faulty (Fawlty) Towers.

Edited October 14, 2019 by hopkinsnhorns

[Victorious1 140]

1 hour ago, immortal13 said:

Did they hire aggys to build this?

aggys don't generally build, they design.  But the outcome can be the same (see bonfire '99).

[Moby Ric 2058]

Anyone know who the General Contractor is?

[Sbbruin 21828]

20 minutes ago, Moby Ric said:

Anyone know who the General Contractor is?

Pretty sure it's this guy.

[Beau Vine 54205]

1 hour ago, Blotto said:

How would that differ from the rest of the US?

Scale

[Beau Vine 54205]

44 minutes ago, hopkinsnhorns said:

 

 

[pearlandhorn 3269]

So...another example of corruption and cutting corners in New Orleans?  I'm shocked.

[jeevsie 3733]

On 10/12/2019 at 11:33 AM, woohorn said:

Looks horrible, esp. if workers were active. Shocked if some of those on ground weren't Abbott'd.

Sooooo, we're just going to let this one go?

[miguelito 11252]

Eh, just roll with it.

[babysdaddy 2719]

engineering firm was Heaslip engineering.  They knew about the issue for a few months and were trying to fix it.  Steel was deflecting and gussets were being added.  Too late