Paul Sebasovich was cleaning “a little bit of water” in the basement of his Lower Paxton Twp. home Saturday night when he saw brown water seeping through the wall.
“I heard a couple pops and saw the blocks moving a little bit, and I got up on the steps, and all of a sudden, everything went, like a dam breaking,” said the Curvin Road resident.
Sebasovich’s family is one of two forced from their homes by a deluge — three to seven inches of rain dropped overnight Saturday and into Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
In Susquehanna and Lower Paxton townships, the storm closed roads and stranded motorists.
“We got clobbered,” said Lower Paxton Twp. Manager George Wolfe.
Overloaded storm sewers “exploded” and caused Beaver and Goose Valley roads to collapse, Wolfe said. Compton and Colonial Club roads, closed due to flooding during the storm, have reopened, but Beaver and Goose Valley will remain closed for emergency repairs and will possibly reopen this week, he said.
Lower Paxton storm sewers were inspected recently “because of the significant rain we had this past spring,” Wolfe said. “The storms we’ve been having lately, if you didn’t know it, you’d think they were 10-year storms, 100-years storms, but they’re all coming in the last three or four months.”
Sebasovich said that he and his wife are staying with their daughter, and their son is staying with neighbors, while crews shore up the crumbled basement wall.
“That night, we stayed in our truck, because we have two beagles,” he said.
Hornung’s Hardware store “helped a lot” by loaning a loader and trailer, but without flood coverage, insurance won’t cover the damage, Sebasovich said.
Also in Lower Paxton Twp., another buckling basement chased a family of three adults and one child from their Heather Road home, said Nikki Otto of the American Red Cross of Southcentral Pennsylvania. The Red Cross found housing for them through Monday night and will reassess today.
“They still weren’t allowed back on the property,” Otto said. “There was still damage.”
In Susquehanna Twp., the flooded Doehne, Paxton Church, Walker Mill and Roberts Valley roads were closed Saturday night but reopened by Sunday morning, said township Manager Gary Myers. Some patching and shoulder repairs are unde rway, but “it appears we had no real structural damage,” he said.
Sergey Filatov has lived in the Mountaindale development of Susquehanna Twp. for 10 years, but said he never saw anything like the deluge that sent several inches of water coursing into his garage and tearing out landscaping. A drain meant to channel stormwater toward a creek apparently failed, he said.
The development, built on the side of the mountains that parallel Linglestown Road, is no stranger to flash-flooding issues during heavy storms.
The Susquehanna Twp. highway crew is spending this week “checking culverts and cleaning off every inlet in the township, and probably pulling covers and shoveling them out,” Myers said.
Wolfe said he hasn’t had a chance to assess the cost of storm cleanup and repairs. Myers said the storm shouldn’t cost the township any more than highway crew overtime Saturday and Sunday.
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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on August 10, 2011 at 2:57am
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Heavy weekend rain damages homes in Lower Paxton, Susquehanna townships
Published: Monday, August 08, 2011, 6:51 PM Updated: Monday, August 08, 2011, 8:32 PM
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/08/heavy_weekend_ra...
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Construction Site Collapse Closes Down Clarendon Boulevard, Residents Evacuated From Apartments
Updated: Monday , 08 Aug 2011, 6:07 PM EDT
ROSSLYN, Va. - A construction site collapse on Clarendon Boulevard has left a big traffic mess and has caused an apartment building in Rosslyn to evacuate.
The collapse is due to a support wall giving way, causing cracks in the apartment building.
Residents are in hotels on Monday and officials are not sure for how long.
For the residents who live in the four-story apartment, it was an awful sound and feeling.
“We heard this banging sound. It sounded like somebody was hitting a piece of metal with a crowbar and all the welds just snapped and basically the whole thing starts subsiding,” said resident Will Dickinson.
He ran to his truck parked right next to the construction site.
“I jumped in my truck and I had about 30 seconds to spare and I backed my truck out and the whole thing fell down like 40 feet,” said Dickinson.
Arlington County officials say recent rain might be to blame for the issues of the support wall.
“It's because of the water content in the soil. The past couple of days, we’ve had [lots of] rain and the hydraulic pressure was too much,” said Shahriar Amiri, Arlington County’s Chief Building Official.
There were rumors of a huge crane leaning and even a sinkhole opening up, but officials say that was not the case.
Clark Construction, the developer of the property, immediately took care of the residents and placed them in a hotel across the street.
“We’re doing everything we can for the residents and our highest priority is the safety of the building as well as the residents,” said Brian Abt of Clark Construction.
All day long, crews have been bringing dump truck after dump truck filled with dirt as they attempt to secure the foundation.
Officials believe Clarendon Boulevard will likely be closed Monday night.
It is also likely going to be a day or two before the residents can move back home. Construction crews not only have to secure the land around that building, but they also have to make sure the building was not structurally damaged.
Statement from Clark Construction Group, LLC:
"On Sunday night, officials at Clark Construction were notified of a failure in the sheeting and shoring system that supports the excavation at Sedona & Slate, a residential housing project in Rosslyn, Va. As a safety precaution, the residents of an adjacent apartment building were evacuated, and accommodations are being provided for them at a nearby hotel. Clark is working closely with structural engineer Allyn Kilsheimer and Arlington County officials to investigate the situation and proceed with appropriate measures.
Our highest priority is the safety of the adjacent building and its residents. We will provide more information as it becomes available."
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/virginia/construction-site-collapse...
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Collapse at Construction Site Threatens Nearby Apartments.
Update at 1:35 p.m. — See this post for the latest on the road closures surrounding the site.
Roads are closed in Rosslyn after a retaining wall partially collapsed at a construction site on the 1500 block of Clarendon
A large retaining wall at the Sedona and Slate apartment construction site gave way following this evening’s heavy rains, allowing earth and debris to spill into the construction pit. The collapse raised fears of an even bigger structural collapse.
Clarendon Boulevard will be closed between Pierce Street and Oak Street “for the foreseeable future,” according to Arlington County Fire Department spokesman Lt. Gregg Karl. Parts of Ode Street and several other roads in the area are also closed.
The Swansen Apartments, at 1625 N. Ode Street, has been evacuated while structural engineers determine whether the building is in danger of collapsing as a result of the failed retaining wall. The building sits on the edge of the landslide that occurred after the wall collapse.
Residents of the Swansen Apartments, who spoke to ARLnow.com on the condition of anonymity, said that they’ve noticed widening cracks in the building’s basement and in the pavement of the parking lot adjacent to the building within the past two weeks. The residents said they recently saw workers measuring the cracks.
About 10 apartment residents have been displaced and will be placed in temporary housing, Karl said. He said other residents found alternate housing on their own. Between 20 and 35 people live in the building, according to resident and fire department estimates.
As of 11:00 p.m., Clark Construction, the primary contractor on the Sedona and Slate project, had around a dozen employees on scene assessing the situation. Arlington County engineers were also on scene, Karl said. The Red Cross arrived to assist displaced residents, and the Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department arrived to provide food and drink to emergency workers.
So far, there has been no indication that there’s any danger to a large construction crane at the site.
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Unsafe Buildings: Teen sisters killed in roof collapse
Two sisters died and seven people were injured when two dilapidated houses collapsed during heavy monsoon rains. PHOTO:AFP
LAHORE:Two sisters died and seven people were injured when two dilapidated houses collapsed during heavy monsoon rains in the city on Monday.
Irum, 16, and Bakhtawar, 18, were killed when the roof of their house near Crown Marriage Hall in Baghbanpura caved in, Rescue 1122 officials told The Express Tribune. The girls were killed instantly by the falling debris, they said.
Rescue officials, with the help of locals, were able to pull out five others trapped under the rubble: Ghulam Shabbir, 40, and Shahnaz Bibi, 35, and their three other children Shabbir, Natasha and Riaz. All five were moved to a hospital where they are being treated for their injuries.
Another couple was trapped under rubble when the roof of their home near Youhanabad Stop on Ferozepur Road collapsed. Their neighbours helped Rescue 1122 officials pull them free. Babar Masih, 25, and his wife Mumtaz, 23, are being treated in General Hospital where they are out of danger, said the officials.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 9th, 2011.
For more picture of the monsoon, view a slideshow here
http://tribune.com.pk/story/227206/unsafe-buildings-teen-sisters-ki...
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Workers putting up support to secure what's left of the wall at the laundromat. Picture: JASON SAMMON
The wall collapse in Glen Huntly. Picture: JASON SAMMON
Police block off the road around the wall collapse. Picture: JASON SAMMON
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THREE people could have been crushed when a brick wall of a busy Glen Huntly laundromat partially collapsed during construction work at a neighbouring site.
Worksafe and Glen Eira Council are investigating the incident where the side wall of the Royal Ave Coin Laundrette crumbled at lunchtime on August 1, leaving a gaping hole and exposing the washing machines inside.
It is believed construction work at the adjacent site of the old Glen Huntly police station caused the collapse.
Margaret Lorkin, co-director of building managers Stockdale and Leggo Real Estate, said there was one person in the laundromat and two people in upstairs offices at the time.
“They heard it crack and went outside and it fell down,” Mrs Lorkin said.
Mrs Lorkin’s husband, Des, said a bobcat was digging at the site when the foundation collapsed.
Police cordoned off the area while crews worked to secure the building on August 2.
Worksafe spokesman Michael Birt said a decision on whether to demolish the building would be made soon, but Mrs Lorkin said she understood the wall would be repaired.
Glen Eira Council spokesman Paul Burke said the municipal building inspector was still investigating, which might lead to enforcement action.
“We do know there was an excavator and workmen on site to undertake underpinning works in accordance with a building permit as part of stage one of the works to be undertaken at 9 Royal Ave,” Mr Burke said.
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Youth killed, 15 injured in Lahore building collapse
LAHORE: At least four people, including an old woman, were killed in separate incidents across the metropolis on Saturday. In the first incident, a youth died and fifteen others received injuries when walls of an under-construction building collapsed on the Defence Road, Engineer Town near Haloki Chowki. Police said that around sixteen labourers were asleep in a mud house when the walls of an under-construction building collapsed and their debris landed on the mud house. All the labourers were trapped under the debris. Rescuers and locals rushed to the scene and were able to shift the trapped persons to a nearby hospital where a youth, who was later identified as Yousaf, succumbed to his injuries. Among the injured persons were 20-year-old Qummar, 30-year-old Ghulam Nabi, 28-year-old Muhammad Saleem, 17-year-old Ahmad, 22-year-old Muhammad Ramzan, 18-year-old Naveed, and 20-year-old Ghulam Fareed. In the second incident, a security guard shot himself when he accidentally pulled the trigger of a revolver he was cleaning, in the Green Town police limits. The deceased was identified as 65-year-old Amanat Ali, resident of Baghbanpura, who served as a security guard in the Green Town industrial area. staff report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\08\07\story_7-8-2011_pg7_22
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Wall of historic Goodale House collapses
The Goodale House, one of Georgia’s oldest surviving homes, partially collapsed Friday.
“I’m going to hope it can be restored, but that process lies with the current owner,”: said Erick Montgomery, executive director of Historic Augusta Inc.
Built in 1799 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as the Fitzsimmons-Hampton House, the Federal-style, multistory building was purchased in 2009 by Wes Sims, a Birmingham, Ala., investor who—at the time—hoped to renovate the structure.
Montgomery, who visited the house today, said the collapse involves part of one wall.
“I didn’t go inside, obviously, but it could be that the rest is relatively stable,” he said.
The long vacant house was used as a restaurant in the 1970s and early 1980s and was for sale and priced in the $250,000 range for several years before ultimately selling to Sims for less than $20,000.
Efforts to locate Sims today were unsuccessful.
The surrounding area—now flanked by Bobby Jones Expressway and mammoth chemical factories across Sandbar Ferry Road—was once a 500-acre plantation established by Thomas Goodale in 1740.
Goodale also operated the Sandbar Ferry at the nearby river crossing, in addition to a restaurant and inn, according to early historical accounts.
In 1799, the year the home was built, the site was sold to a Charleston, S.C., merchant named Christopher Fitzsimmons, who later gave the home to his daughter’s new husband, Wade Hampton Jr.
His son, Wade Hampton III, would later become governor of South Carolina.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-08-05/wall-historic-g...
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Fri, Aug. 05 2011 05:18 PM EDT
Flooding in Charlotte Prompts Evacuations, Rescues
Floods in Charlotte, North Carolina, due to torrential rains that occurred around midday on Friday have prompted evacuations, rescue attempts and flash flood warnings.
The rains began just before 12 p.m. and lasted until about 1:15 p.m., accumulating approximately three inches of rain and up to six inches in some areas.
Residents began calling in emergencies immediately, one of the first being a celling collapse at the Sola Salon on in the South end of Charlotte. No one was injured, but many women had their hair and nails ruined.
A ceiling collapse also occurred at an Embassy Suites on South Tryon Street in Charlotte. Erik Slemon of Robert Graham, LLC, was staying at the hotel and captured the fall in on his camera phone. He described the event as "fast and fierce."
"It went from completely dry to torrential downpour," he told News 14 Carolina.
"Its not something you ever expect to happen, and then you just see the ceiling coming down."
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Rains overpowered the hotels drainage pipes and causes the collapse.
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association told The Christian Post that its headquarters in Charlotte suffered no damages as a result of the floods.
But other areas of Charlotte have not been as fortunate. Police and the Fire Department have started evacuating people from two Charlotte neighborhoods. First responders to the flood rescued 16 people who were trapped in vehicles. Approximately, 77 road incidents have been reported, but none have mentioned injuries
Charlotte Fire Department spokesman Capt. Rob Brisley warned residents not to drive through flooded streets. He reported that most of the motorists required rescues because they decided to go through streets with high water.
Flash flood warnings were placed on Gaston, Mecklenburg, Cleveland and Lincoln Counties until 4 p.m.
Spokeswoman for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services, Jennifer Frost reported that parts of Interstate highways 77, 485 and 85 are temporarily shut down due to flooding.
"It came down very fast," said Frost, according to CNN. "It got so dark downtown, it looked like night."
Having worked in the area for nine years, she said she "never seen anything like this before."
http://www.christianpost.com/news/flooding-in-charlotte-prompts-eva...
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Building collapse wreaks havoc in Karachi
* 7 killed, 15 injured as five-storey building collapses in Karachi
* Four women and two girls among dead g Rescue operation continues
By Atif Raza
KARACHI: At least seven people, including three women, three minor girls and a boy, were killed and 15 others injured when a five-storey building collapsed in Moosa Lane within the limits of Baghdadi police station, Lyari, here on Thursday.
According to police and eyewitnesses, at around 11:00am the five-storey building ‘Qasr-e-Roqayya’ fell down along Shah Abdul Latif Bhattai road.
On information, rescue teams, officials of the Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) and others, rushed to the scene and recovered the bodies of seven persons. The deceased were identified as Hawwa Bibi, Khadija, Rozina, Arshia, Imran and Bilal while identity of other deceased girl could not be ascertained till filing of this report.
Rescuers said the victims Arshia and Bilal were juniors among five siblings namely Hammad, Komal and Kiran. They said that Abdul Ghaffar and Komal along with their five children were living at top floor of the building.
KBCA officials said the building was 20-year-old and was in deteriorated condition. They said that it was included in decayed buildings list and added that the inhabitants were also suggested to evacuate it to avoid any untoward incident but they refused to do so.
SSP South Naeem Sheikh expressed fear of further casualties in the incident and said that more casualties could be reported as the debris of the building was not completely removed so far and the rescue work was in progress.
SSP South further said that rescue teams along with army teams are busy in recovering the injured persons.
SHO Baghdadi Jan Muhammad said that some 20 families were living in the building. He said that although the rescue operation was expedited, the teams were facing difficulties due to dense populated area.
When contacted, DC South Mustafa Jamal Qazi said the district government on the directives of Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan had established a relief camp at Shah Latif Bhattai Hall to facilitate the traumatized persons of this incident. He said the Commissioner Karachi Muhammad Hussain Syed also visited the spot and assured the inhabitants of the area of utilising all resources for providing maximum relief to affected families.
Civil Hospital Karachi sources confirmed that all seven bodies and 15 injured persons were bought to the hospital. The deceased were identified as Arshia, 07, daughter of Abdul Ghaffar; Hawwa Bibi, 70, wife of Usman; Imran, 06, son of Usman; and Bilal, 19, son of Abdul Ghaffar, Khadija, Rozina.
They said that all injured Alia, 35, wife of Riyaz; Kulsoom, 40, wife of Yousuf; Komal, 35, wife of Abdul Ghaffar; Rabia, 6, daughter of Abdul Ghaffar; Muskan, 07, daughter of Imran; Samina, 35, wife of Imran; Adeel, 19, son of Abdul Ghaffar; Imran, 35, son of Yousuf; Parveen, 48, wife of Abdul Ghafoor; and Bilquees, 34, wife of Abbas were in stable condition.
Meanwhile, army rescue team comprising some 50 personnel also reached the site of incident along with sniper dogs but the dogs were unable to point out the people stuck under debris.
Rescuers also made the lighting arrangements to continue the rescue efforts while believed the people get stuck in debris will be brought out till morning because of the congested locations.
The Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA), in late hours, also issued an initial report of the collapse of the building. The technical team of SBCA, after inspecting the site of building collapse, forwarded a preliminary report of the incident to SBCA director general.
The report said
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GUJRANWALA: A heavy explosion occurred in a private bank building causing collapse of bank, roofs of two adjacent houses of the bank and damage to a gas pipeline, besides injuring two people, on Gujranwala-Sialkot road here on late Tuesday night.
According to Rescue 1122, The explosion took place in MCB Pattomand Branch. Fire fighter teams of Rescue 1122 rushed the spot and brought the fire under control after hectic efforts.
In explosion, bank security guard, Habib s/o Afzal and Azhar s/o Muhammad Iqbal received burn injuries. Habib was shifted to DHQ Hospital in a critical condition.
DIG Gujranwala, Ahmad Mubarik, SSP Operation, Bomb Disposal Squad and other officials reached the spot and investigation was in progress.
According to Rescue 1122 the blast occured due to a gas pipeline leakage.
http://www.brecorder.com/pakistan/general-news/22015-bank-two-house...
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