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Originally Posted by greglepore

You can't build on plastic sand in a corrosive environment.

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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

I would not stand foot in Burj Khalifa, even for a second. Same for the highrises that are measurably settling where ever they are.

Single story Ranch style living has it's advantages.

There are a bunch of those man-made "palm tree" islands. I'm not sure how many are complete and have building/inhabitants, but I definitely think they are probably even more fool hardy than the Titanic. A giant man-made island built in water out of sand in a seismically active area with enormously tall buildings built on it. I'm guessing Dubai hasn't ever heard the parable of "wise and foolish builders" (building your house on sand or rock).

I did find it interesting that they used an enormous dildo to compact the sand used to build the island prior to building. I kind of feel that means that those islands are fuched from the outset.

Originally Posted by David

https://www.insider.com/woman-was-on-phone-to-husband-as-miami-block-collapsed-2021-6


A woman stood on the balcony of her fourth-floor apartment as the Florida condominium collapsed told her husband on the phone that she could see the pool "caving in" seconds before the line went dead, Sky News reported.

Cassie Straton was speaking to her husband, Michael, from their balcony on the south side of the Champlain Towers when she noticed the building started shaking in the early hours of Thursday, her older sister Ashely Dean said.

"Suddenly she says, 'honey, the pool is caving in. The pool is sinking to the ground,'" Dean said, according to Sky News.

"He said, 'what are you talking about?' And she says, 'the ground is shaking, everything's shaking' and then she screamed a blood-curdling scream and the line went dead," Dean added.

That's really horrifying. I can't even imagine the psychological impact of that phone call on the husband for the rest of his life.