http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/asia/bangladesh-building-collapse.html?hp&_r=0
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.
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
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...
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...
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
CARBON COUNTY (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...
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.
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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...
Flash Flooding in Maryland the culprit
 Six cars were damaged early Thursday morning when heavy rains caused a retaining wall on Mulligans Hill Lane, in historic Ellicott City, to collapse. No injuries were reported. |
Six cars that had been parked in front of a retaining wall in historic Ellicott City now sit parked underneath of it.
A portion of the retaining wall fell Thursday, Sept. 8, leaving a large pile of rubble on Mul
HIGHLAND — Milton Avenue has been closed after the road and bridge leading into the hamlet collapsed this morning, according to the Lloyd Highway Department.
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Heavy rains from Wednesday night into Thursday morning caused a building collapse and several street closures in the area — and that’s not it for the rain
“Unfortunately the rain continues. It’s probably just going to keep raining through the end of the day at varying intensities,” said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Eric Wilhelm.
“Some of the time it will be light and some of the time it’ll be as heavy as it has been, so on top of what’s already fallen across the area we can expect additional rainfall today of perhaps half an inch to an inch,” he said.
That’s on top of the one to three inches most of the area saw late Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
Wilhelm said Thursday morning that even though the rain will let up eventually, we won’t start to dry out until early next week.
“The river and stream flooding will continue spilling out of their banks for some time, and it’ll be a slow, kind of painful improvement (Friday) and right through the weekend,” he said.
“It’s not going to rain the whole day any of those days, but there can be another thunderstorm or two at any point Friday through Sunday,” Wilhelm said.
The remnants of this rainstorm, what’s left of what was once called Tropical Storm Lee, will move out of the area by the start of next week, “and as we get into Monday and Tuesday we’ll finally get this system out of our hair and have a chance to dry out,” he said.
http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2011/09/08/news/doc4e6901ecdfe76...
BICHOLIM: Heavy rains accompanied by cyclonic winds caused havoc in Bicholim taluka with villagers suffering losses estimated in lakhs of rupees. One person also suffered injuries in a related mishap.
Five houses collapsed, while plantations and fields were submerged under water. The Bicholim and Sanquelim river has also crossed the danger mark as all four gates of Anjunem dam were opened to avoid further danger. The water level in the Bicholim tributary also rose up to road level.
The main road at Mencurem, Dhumasem and Sal was also submerged under water, causing inconvenience to traffic for nearly four hours. Bicholim fire station personnel were kept on their toes in rescue operations. All the four lift irrigation water pumps at Sanquelim river were pressed into service to prevent the flood water from entering the market.
A man from Keri-Sattari Manohar Ladu Majik, 30, suffered serious injuries while he was on his way to office at Mayem. Majik was riding his scooter, when a wall belonging to a roadside house collapsed and fell on him.
He was rushed to the primary health centre, Bicholim, by 108 ambulance and later shifted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim. The house owner Babli Raut suffered a loss of ' 25,000.
In another incident, Uttam Gaonkar from Paltadwada-Kudchirem suffered a loss of ' 50,000 after the wall of a neighbouring house collapsed onto his own. The neighbour also suffered a loss of ' 1 lakh.
The protection wall of Dempo building, behind the Bicholim police station, also collapsed as a huge tree fell on it.
Bicholim MLA Rajesh Patnekar, deputy collector Narayan Gad, Mayem MLA Anant Shet, Pale MLA Pratap Gawas and others visited the flood affected areas and took stock of the situation.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/5-houses-collapse-cyclo...
BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. – A large sinkage on North State Road between Route 9A and Pleasantville Road will likely take two months or more to fix, village Manager Philip Zegarelli said.
"This is not just an easy 'Let's just throw in a few yards of concrete'... There's a gas line, water main, sewer main, electrical oil static line and (Department of Transportation) junction boxes for signals all in that one spot. It has to be redesigned to match what the needs are of today," Zegarelli said.
The village manager called the area where the sinkage is a "culvert," meaning that there is an underground opening there, fed by a few water pipes, where water collects before flowing out through a larger pipe.
During Hurricane Irene, the ground around the culvert eroded, causing the road above it to collapse, Zegarelli said.
Since the road where the sinkage occurred is a major east-west linkage in Briarcliff, school bus companies have been advised to reschedule bus times to fit alternate routes, Zegarelli added.
"It's going to take a minimum of two months before the road is open," the village manager said. "There's a DOT component, a utility component, we've got to bring Con Ed in, and a sewage line has to be rerouted there. The strategy is, 'What is the best long-term solution to a very difficult problem?'"
Peggy Minnis, a professor of environmental science and chemistry at Pace University said that sink holes form when the ground becomes saturated with water and the soil begins to act as a fluid medium rather than a solid.
"Soils are fragile, and in the case of roads, very often they have used fill material, and it could be fragile," Minnis said. "There's a whole world underneath the road, and nobody could really tell you unless you dug up that road and did a post mortem why a sink hole formed."
Geologically speaking, the North State Road hole is "sinkage" rather than a "sink hole," Zegarelli said, because water had not gutted out a hole, but rather eroded around an already established hole.
Another hole that formed during Hurricane Irene on River Road was a real sink hole where the water created "a quicksand type of situation," Zegarelli said. The hole measured six feet wide and five feet deep, and was much easier to fix because there are no pipes or control boxes there.
Village officials are currently seeking help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to repair the North State Road hole.
"This falls right into the category of FEMA. When they come in to help you restore things, they want to see you fix them so it doesn't happen again," Zegarelli said.
In 1999, Hurricane Floyd caused the same part of North State Road to cave in, Zegarelli said.
Floods have led to the collapse of about 700 houses, death of two persons and 40 cattle were washed away. While one middle-aged man died due to a house collapse, another drowned in Gheerawala village.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr S Karuna Raju, “We are yet to locate the families of the deceased. As of now, we are busy in removing the dead carcasses because they can cause an epidemic in the area. Water has started receding now, so health measures are more important. Already, medical camps are flooded with cases of skin ailments and mild fever.” The Ferozepur administration had spent around Rs 40 lakh from flood relief funds and will need another Rs 30 lakh, the DC added.
About three weeks ago, one bridge each has been washed away at Hazarewala and Gatti Rajoke. Though a temporary structure has been erected, it is unsafe. Balbir Singh, a resident of Churiwala village, said: “No one dares to walk on this structure. Construction on a new bridge had started about an year ago, but it is yet to be completed. Had the work been completed in time, we would not have suffered this much.”
The villagers either park their vehicles away from the bridge and walk for few kilometres to reach their destination or they take a boat. Jarnail Singh, another villager, said: “Every year, during the rainy season, our villages suffer the most and still do not have better infrastructure. The damage to these two bridges has affected the transportation in about 15 villages.” The affected villages included Chandiwala, Kamalewala, Rajoke, Bhakra, Khunderwala and Chinesinghwala Jhuge.
According to preliminary reports, 27,000 acres of crop has been affected - the damage will be assessed in a week. Road network between 45 villages has also resulted in damage worth crores.
The villagers, meanwhile, are unhappy with the compensation they are being given for their loss.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/fazilka-flood-claimed-700-h...
MUMBAI: Five teenagers were killed on Saturday after a compound wall collapsed in Sewree in South Mumbai following incessant rains in the metropolis.
The incident took place around 2.30pm when the Jubilee Mill compound wall at T J Road collapsed killing the youngsters, officials from disaster management cell of the Brihnamumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The deceased have been identified as Sayeed Ali Shaha (11), Noor Mohammed Shaha (18), Ghulam Moinuddin Majiula Khan (12), Adnan Hasan (12) and Shaufiq Sheikh (17).
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-03/mumbai/30110...
Posted: 11:43 am EDT August 31, 2011Updated: 3:38 pm EDT August 31, 2011
BEECHVILLE, Pa. -- A water main break in Beechview has caused major damage to property on Kenberma Street.The road collapsed due to excess amounts of water, trapping some people’s vehicles in their driveways.“It definitely disturbs me. I do have things that I have to do. I have things to attend to. I have errands that I run,” Nicole Burks said.Tom Ferrieri’s house and yard was affected by the water main break.“The deck moved about 3 inches,” Ferrieri said. “And in my pool, the sand’s washed out from underneath. There was so much water coming through my yard, to me it looked like a river.”On Wednesday morning officials said cleanup crews were at the scene removing debris and people were taking damage assessments.“We’ll probably have to take the pool down, the fence down,” Ferrieri said. “It’s just a big mess.”
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