http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/asia/bangladesh-building-collapse.html?hp&_r=0

 

NEW DELHI — An eight-story building in Bangladesh that housed several garment factories collapsed on Wednesday morning, killing at least 70 people, injuring hundreds of others, and leaving an unknown number of people trapped in the rubble, according to Bangladeshi officials and media outlets.... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/asia/bangladesh-building-co...

 

So much happening under our feet.  Daily collapses of roadways due to the severe bow stretch, severe rains, crunching and land subduction all predicted in Zetatalk and all happening now.  Last week in Utah a fatal road collapse killed a 14 year old girl and injured 2.  It's painful to watch the planet crumble but we all knew it was coming.

Buildings collapsing.........a daily happening too.  With responses about what's causing all these happenings ranging from, rain, human error, poorly constructed, yada yada.....BUT, that's not going to fly with people much longer.  As soon as Planet X peers out at us from the sky, people will remember all the things that have happened up to this point and finally somehow, they will connect the dots.  Some will be in extreme denial, others will be so afraid and look for someone to take care of them, and still others will stand up and be counted and prepare as best we could.  There's no wishing this away, there's only pushing forward to a better tomorrow.  While our infrastructure crumbles around us we need to learn to be more careful, tread softly, kiss your kids, love with all your heart.  We are IN IT NOW.

I live in a house built in 1850 and it isn't falling down.  Age does not mean collapse. 

100-year-old building partially collapses in Malone

By: Rachael Paradis

A building in Malone that has been standing for more than a century will no longer be a sight in the town. The building on Route 11, well known to many in the community, collapsed overnight. While no one was injured, our Rachael Paradis tells us why the town is in a rush to tear it down.


MALONE, N.Y. -- Neighbors in Malone stood in surprise, took pictures and even shared stories of a once popular tavern that started to crumble early Monday morning.

County Legislator Billy Jones said, "It's an old structure, it was a structure that was obviously unsafe."

The tavern/hotel was built in the early 1900'. It has been closed to the public for about 15 years and was condemned six months ago.

Franklin County Emergency Services Director Rick Provost, "We're unsure what occurred last night at 3 a.m. What we do know is this building has been on our list of buildings with issues."

Jones said, "Old things fall down."

Police closed off part off Route 11 to traffic and to people, out of concern the rest of the building could fall down. Some in the community voiced concern over why this building, along with others like it in the area that haven't already been demolished. Officials say it comes down to money.

Provost said, "The high cost of abatement for these buildings really makes it tough for the county or the village to take those burdens on."

Jones, "We just have to come up with a plan to start taking some of these building down so we don't run into this problem going forward."

The demolition is only expected to take hours, but cleaning up the area is a different issue. Officials say it could be weeks before the site is completely cleared.

http://centralny.ynn.com/content/top_stories/551123/100-year-old-bu...

 

 LAKE ELSINORE: Water leak causes street collapse

 

10:00 PM PDT on Friday, July 22, 2011

By GENE GHIOTTO
The Press-Enterprise

Temporary repairs to a section of Joy Street in Lake Elsinore are in place today after a 1-inch water line gave way, causing 80 feet of the roadway to collapse and the asphalt to buckle.

The leak, caused by a 6 to 8-inch diameter tree root, was reported late Thursday in a line that leads to several duplexes on Joy between Machado Street and Riverside Drive, and behind Machado Elementary School.

Water service was restored to the 34 customers early Friday morning, said Greg Morrison, spokesman for the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District.

Water district and contractor crews spent much of Friday removing the damaged asphalt on the southbound side of Joy and laying down a temporary patch. The road was opened in both directions by late afternoon.

"That way the road will be open completely for the entire weekend," Morrison said.

Crews will return Monday and trench from curb to curb to permanently repair the 1-inch line.

On Tuesday, a paving company will remove the patch, put down new base and repave one side of Joy, Morrison said. Work on the other side will take place on Wednesday.

"That way on Tuesday and Wednesday we'll be able to keep on

 

http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_spipe23.38e27e6...

Windhorst, Parsons Roadway Collapse: Cautious Testing Continues

County workers are testing for sinkholes but the work is proceeding methodically because of utility lines at the intersection, according to a Hillsborough County spokesman.

Several lanes at the intersection of Windhorst Road and Parsons Avenue in Brandon remained closed for the indefinite future as county workers tread carefully in determining what caused a section of the roadway to collapse July 19.

“We have to be really careful at that intersection because there are lots of utility lines in the area,” said Hillsborough County spokesman Patrick Murray. "We have a sewer line and a water line there and we have to make sure there are no other utilities, so we have to be careful drilling.”

At the scene, late afternoon July 22, barricades were seen at the intersection, with drilling under way.

Crew workers first believed a 16-inch sewage pipeline beneath the intersection might have caused the collapse of the 6-foot-square section of roadway on July 19, according to a county report.

But the sewer line was dug up and found to be intact.  Now the county is testing the intersection for sinkholes — but carefully, as Murray noted.  

Additional detours and lane closures are possible as crews dig up the line for inspection and any necessary repairs.

Motorists who must travel through the intersection are warned to expect delays.

http://brandon.patch.com/articles/windhorst-parsons-roadway-collaps...

Sewer collapse closes part of Lexington Road

At least one eastbound lane of Road near Etley Avenue and Cave Hill Cemetery will be closed during Thursday morning’s rush hour after a 48-inch brick sewer collapsed Wednesday evening.

Crews noticed a depression in the road before discovering the sewer had collapsed, and the area will be excavated Thursday morning, said Metropolitan Sewer District Executive   Bud Schardein.

He said it was too early to tell what caused the collapse, but age was a likely factor. That part of the sewer was built in the 1880s and could have been weakened from an unusually wet spring.

“With all the wet weather we’ve had this past spring, that has a tendency to undermine the mortar,” Schardein said.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110720/NEWS01/307200099/Se...

Road collapse might have killed Colorado family

(2011-07-20)

(wpr) - Engineers say a large section of Wyoming highway where four Colorado family members plunged to their deaths might have totally collapsed in a matter of minutes.

It had been raining for hours Monday night when local authorities warned the Constantinides family, among others, about potential flood conditions near North Brush Creek Campground around midnight.

Not long afterward, the family's van drove into a washed-out portion of Wyoming highway 130 and was swept about 75 yards down Brush Creek. Laurel Constantindies and her three daughters died.

The husband and father, Alex Constantindies, who had grown up in Laramie, survived and escape the vehicle. He and a passerby later rescued Carbon County Emergency management Coordinator John Ziegler, whose car washed out while he was trying to assist in flood protection efforts.

Ziegler said he was "very fortunate" to have survived.

Bruce Burrows of the Wyoming Transportation Department says engineers are studying what happened to the roadway early Tuesday morning. He says preliminary assessments indicate the creek swollen with rain and snowmelt may have undermined the roadway over some hours and then gouged a 25-foot-wide, 9-foot-deep hole in a matter of minutes.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wpr/news.newsmain/article/1/0/183...

Yunnan road test the opening day collapse resulting in four deaths and injuries

8, Yunnan” in the history of the most short-lived highway “a serious collapse destroyed sections of the site. After investigation, the highway there in time duration and other issues. Xinhua News Agency reporters Chen Hai and Ning She

Recently, Yunnan Province, Internet users post, said the new Xinping county secondary road test three estuary opening day collapse occurs, resulting in 2 dead 2 injured. Internet users have questioned this “the most short-lived highway” Why just fix it collapsed, was “too much rain” or “bad way”?

After the incident, Yunnan Provincial Department and the Transportation Department were dispatched to investigate a group of experts, the group that really belongs to all “natural disasters caused by heavy rainfall.”

collapse of the vehicle crash on

recently, Internet users “pass,” said Post, June 27, Xinping County of Yuxi City, three city secondary road test the opening of the estuary collapse occurred the next day, resulting in a vehicle passing through here turn under the cliff, killing two people died inside the car and two others injured, highway interrupted. For the cause of the accident, the local government is a single point of heavy rain caused by a natural disaster.

7 8, correspondent along the new road to the scene three, the road there are construction workers on the highway guardrail, drainage and other construction, from time to time some sections of earth and rock rolled down from the hills.

close to the scene of the accident, the construction set up roadblocks on the road side. In the new three road K25 +450 to K26 +480 road, the reporter saw a total of three road damage, including two collapsed, a surface crack. Road accident at the hillside, two-way four-lane have collapsed, a lot of rocks, soil and concrete was rushed into the street of the valley.

“red water collapsed roadbed”

Zhang Xinping County Department of Transportation Secretary BU has introduced three new roads through villages and towns in Xinping County 8 19 village committees, with a total mileage of 90 kilometers . Road along the fragile geology, disasters, floods and geological disasters have been more serious.

accidents mainly due to heavy rains led to a single point of soft roadbed, road ditches and culverts to be above the blockage, and finally the formation of water as a waterfall of impact, resulting in collapse of highway roadbed.

Bu there are rules that highway design, construction and supervision units are selected strictly in accordance with the bidding system, procedural compliance and found no serious design flaws, quality of construction or supervision of omissions.

collapse occurred Sections of the construction unit project manager Jiangzu Long introduction, the unit will subcontract work to the successful construction services company, the project head of engineering equipment and materials, and is responsible for management and technical guidance, service company only the labor force, which is not labor sub-subcontract, the state permitted by law.

he said, in strict accordance with design drawings for construction, engineering, quality is no problem, Lu Jisong soft infiltration and erosion is mainly caused by the floods.

no quality problems, experts say

afterwards, Yunnan Provincial Department and the Transportation Department were sent experts to the scene. The Group believes that: section of the incident transverse slope steep terrain, poor geological conditions, heavy rainfall increased the hydrostatic pressure, the formation of collapse, is a heavy rainfall-induced natural disasters.

Yunnan Provincial Communications Department who participated in the survey, experts say, from the survey of the situation, roadbed, retaining wall strength and so meet the requirements and found no quality problems.

subsidy investigation in time duration for the fight

accused of the most short-lived road not approved the first building, not the acceptance that the opening test

Reporter learned that the investigation, three new road opened in October 2009 to build, and design in May 2010 before the Provincial Communications Department has been approved, there is “not approved prior to construction” and “time duration” issue. Not hand over the road in case of acceptance of test traffic violations, and plans to be held on 30 June the opening ceremony, canceled after the accident.

construction personnel, three new road along the geological environment is complex, time is short, heavy task in building a post, Xinping shouted “make a big quick-drying 60 days,” the slogan of the progress of the projects Forced , post workers overtime work.

what makes engineering so catch it? Reporters learned that, in addition to travel to meet the requirements of the masses, more important reason is that for national road toll for the abolition of two grants. According to the policy, the new secondary roads shall be June 30 this year, opened to traffic, or can not enjoy the state’s two highway toll abolition of subsidies.

http://www.cnkeyword.info/yunnan-road-test-the-opening-day-collapse...

Details Emerge in Deadly Road Collapse

Cheyenne : WY : USA | Jul 20, 2011
 
Engineers say a large section of Wyoming highway where four Colorado family members plunged to their deaths may have totally collapsed in a matter of minutes. Bruce Burrows of the Wyoming Transportation Department says engineers are studying what happened to state Route 130 over South Brush Creek... FULL ARTICLE AT KSAZ

http://www.allvoices.com/news/9730810-details-emerge-in-deadly-road...

 

 

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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on September 17, 2011 at 4:40am
People feared trapped as building collapse in Kakinada
 

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Hyderabad: Several people were feared trapped under a five-storied building that caved-in at Lakshminarayana Nagar in the coastal town of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh on Friday evening, police said.

"Two floors of the building caved-in and several people are believed to have been trapped under the debris. Three children and one woman have been rescued so far," East Godavari district Superintendent of Police Thrivikram Varma said.

A full scale rescue and search operation was underway.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy directed the East Godavari Collector M Ravichandra to call in NDRF personnel from Vijayawada and Naval Team from Visakhapatnam to assist in the rescue operation.

http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-TOP-people-feared-trapped-as-b...

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on September 15, 2011 at 10:03pm
Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on September 15, 2011 at 9:56pm

Roof Collapses at Lochearn Salvo Auto Parts

No customers were in the store when the roof partially collapsed Wednesday at Salvo Auto Parts on Liberty Road.

 

Part of the Lochearn Salvo Auto Parts roof collapsed at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.

No customers were inside during the collapse, and no employees were injured, according to a news release from the Baltimore County Office of Emergency Management.

The collapse occurred at 7003 Liberty Rd.

Baltimore County officials are inspecting the building, the release stated.

http://pikesville.patch.com/articles/roof-collapses-at-lochearn-sal...

Comment by Howard on September 15, 2011 at 4:41am
Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on September 12, 2011 at 11:05pm

Roof collapses on to 15 cars in County Durham

A roof has collapsed on 15 cars due to the high winds buffeting the North East. 

A row of five almost-finished industrial units in Langley Moor, County Durham, came down as if they had been subject to a controlled explosion, the operations manager at Bako Northern next door said.

The roof blew off on to Bako’s car park, crushing employees’ vehicles, but no-one was hurt.


The Redheugh Bridge in Newcastle is also currently closed to HGVs, caravans and motorbikes due to the winds, and signs are being put in place warning drivers. 

Group operations manager Sean Kelly said: "It was extremely lucky for us, all our drivers were out, there were no contractors or visitors.

"There was nobody hit by a flying brick, though debris was strewn across the yard."

The dramatic collapse happened at around 9.40am when the winds were gusting strongly across the industrial estate.

Mr Kelly, in charge of health and safety at the bakery ingredients distributor where 76 people are employed, was immediately called by the shocked transport manager who can be seen on the CCTV footage holding his head in disbelief.

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/breaking-news/2011/09/12/roof-colla...

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on September 10, 2011 at 2:41am
Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on September 10, 2011 at 2:36am

 

 

LIBERTY — Residents of a hillside neighborhood in Liberty Township in Warren County are being kept away from their homes after a mudslide suddenly took out one home and compromised another Thursday evening, the township mayor said this morning.

Although State Police reported a third home on Lewis Lane had sunk into its foundation, Mayor John Inscho, who was at the scene overnight and this morning, said it was “not compromised in any way, shape or form.”

There have been no reported injuries. The collapses on Lewis Lane were triggered by a mudslide on the steep hill that took out a portion of Lewis Lane near Lakeside Drive West, police said.

“It was fast and furious,” Inscho said from the scene shortly after 9 a.m. “It all happened within a matter of minutes.”

Inscho said local and state officials were assessing the damage and drawing up a plan to clear the roads of the mud and debris.

At least two dozen neighborhood residents from nearby homes, all of them on a steep hill and also threatened with collapse, were evacuated last night, the mayor said.

He was hopeful residents might be allowed back into their homes this afternoon to at least help secure their contents.

Although people were inside the two homes, none were injured, the mayor and police said.

Weeks of heavy rains and flash floods in the neighborhood Wednesday night overfilled streams coursing through the Lewis Lane hill. That led to a collapse of portions of the road and compromised the homes’ foundations, police said.

The first home washed off its foundation shortly before 6:10 p.m. and the rear of a neighboring home then gave way, the mayor and police said.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/residents_of_warren_county...

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on September 9, 2011 at 10:11pm



Gap between road, 103 bridge widening
Friday, September 9, 2011

— Another section of the road leading to the Route 103 bridge has eroded away into the rushing water of the Mohawk River.

State Department of Transportation spokeswoman Carol Breen said the gap between the road and the bridge structure is now about 50 feet long. She said the flood water washed away more of the soil embankment, causing the sinkhole beneath Route 103 to increase.

Breen said a team of engineers are heading to the scene to do an initial assessment of the damage. But neither the bridge nor the adjacent Lock 9 appear in any danger of collapse.

http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2011/sep/09/0909_section/

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on September 9, 2011 at 3:21am

Oil tanks collapse at Duke Heating

Five large tanks at the Duke Heating Oil property collapsed overnight, apparently from floodwaters washing out their foundation.

OVERLOOK - Seven large oil storage tanks at the Duke Heating Oil property collapsed overnight, apparently from floodwaters washing out their foundation.

The smell of heating oil is prevalent in the area, but it is not known how much oil may have been in the tanks. The company had filed for bankruptcy earlier this year and is not believed to have been operating.

Josh Lenker, 35, who lives a few hundred yards away at 293 Overlook Boulevard, said he heard “something like metal screeching or scraping” about 3 a.m. Thursday, but it didn’t last long. In the morning, he put his 4-year-old son Owen on his shoulders and walked down the hill toward the property to survey the conditions of the flooding.

“I was mainly looking at the water; all of a sudden, that’s when I realized I smelled oil and I looked over and all the tanks were on their side,” he said.

The bottom of the tanks are in water from nearby Shamokin Creek and a feeder stream that have overflowed from four days of heavy rains that have produced widespread flooding in Northumberland County.

Lenker said the smell is “pretty strong” near the Duke property. At times, he can smell the oil at his home, too.

He said there was no obvious accumulation of oil that he could see at the Duke property.

Duke Heating is located just a short distance off Route 61 a few miles north of Shamokin. It sits behind a used car lot that fronts the highway. Lenker can see Route 61 and Duke Oil from his house.

The feeder creek has been across Overlook Boulevard Road, which intersects with Route 61 near the oil company lot, since Wednesday, Lenker said. He and his neighbors cannot get to their homes from the highway.

http://republicanherald.com/oil-tanks-collapse-at-duke-heating-1.11...

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on September 9, 2011 at 3:19am

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A portion of the retaining wall fell Thursday, Sept. 8, leaving a large pile of rubble on Mulligans Hill Lane near a tattoo shop and the hilly intersection with Saint Paul Street.

Two of those six cars belonged to Elyssa Broumas and her father, Michael. Earlier on Wednesday, Sept. 7, their cars had been parked downhill on Maryland Avenue near the B&O Railroad Museum — much closer to a river that was swelling during Wednesday's heavy rain.

"We moved up here because we thought it was going to flood," Elyssa, an 18-year-old who lives on nearby Tiber Alley, said Thursday morning. "Lo and behold, we got an avalanche."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/howard/news/ph-ho-cf-flooding-t...

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