Crane Dangling in Manhattan at 57th street...at least 700 feet up...CNN just now

bump just now heard on FOX

I just find it hard to understand why they would have kept that thing upright like that with the week's worth of warnings. Must have been to costly to move it down....now look at what they will be spending on it. If that thing breaks loose that could be some bad damage.

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Uhmm....Im starting to think this thing is the real deal folks. You should see the Jersey Shore right now...the winds are nuts...they got a guy on the street in Jersey..Ali Vessi or whatever. You should see this stuff...the winds are absolutely pounding the place. He almost got blown over like 5 times.

and it's still a few hours away too :/

I saw two cranes on a building when looking at some news pictures this morning and wondered how long they would last.

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live for now.

Last Edited by NervousAndJerky on 10/29/2012 03:23 PM

DirecTV has full-time Sandy coverage. Ch. #325

I first heard it on there. They are now evacuating several buildings around the crane, as they feel there will be NO WAY to get it down, as putting a second crane up to try to dislodge it will only put THAT one in danger, too.

While the local reporter was moving back, per police orders, she freaked out by breaking glass in buldings around her - NOT RELATED TO THE CRANE DOOM - just b/c of Sandy.

It IS real.

It's gonna get real wild, folks!

Edited to add: 65 stories up!

I can see that building with a lot less glass by tomorrow. That is the scary part...flying glass. Stay indoors people.

PIN!

the storm may be the real deal...but did the storm form naturally or was it engineered?

Showing it live here
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The storm appears to be a damb squib

High winds not make it to surface levels.

Angle of winds saving the day.

You guys got lucky!

LIVE FEED

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I karma pinned this thread, because if that fucker falls, its not going to fall its going to fly fuckin' sideways into adjacent buildings.


They're telling people if they live nearby this to get down to a lower floor of the building they reside in.


Streets are blocked off around the area below in anticipation of the thing falling, and that thing I bet IS going to come crashing down...

As I mentioned in the other thread, when the crane falls, it will plunge right through Carnegie Hall!!

And 3 guys just ran behind the CNN guy in their boxers jumping up and down. Pretty damn funny if you ask me.

The cheapest condo in that building is 7 million. Prime minister of Quatar is buying the 100 million condo in that building.

People are being evacuated from nearby buildings.

Not exactly easy to take down that high up. Even with all the weather warnings they got, there's no way they could take it down in a week.

I can understand that....but not even lower it some?

The Big Apple has already had a few high rise crane accidents in the past -- so it's kinda dumb that they didn't safe that thing in the face of this storm.

And they call us Southerners stupid...

Crane is made of very high gauge steel. It will only bend and not break or collapse. If it did break the body of the crane with the cables would support the falling structure with said cables. Media tends to sensationalize this stuff.

I used to be Crane Operator, I know what im talking about.
Move along. No Doom.

Whats the radius of destruction? 45- 100 miles?

Last Edited by HAWK-03 on 10/29/2012 05:18 PM

I love the word "dangling".....

OMG thats a steel structure in New York,bound to fall down into its own footprint.

Yikes