COLLAPSE: HOW BUILDINGS CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SUCCEED

Well, the good news is that nobody was killed, so I might as well post these photographs I took from the site of the partial building collapse (just one floor, albeit the 24th one) down the street from my office on Friday morning:











Bonus footage of not much else happening!



Interesting? Not terribly. I might as well admit it: when I arrived on the scene, I had misread an e-mail and believed part of North Lynne Street had collapsed — so you can imagine my confusion when the road turned out to be entirely intact, and now you know why none of these futile images are pointed skyward.

I did actually see one man on a stretcher wheeled onto an ambulance, but decided against taking a picture of that. Guess I'll never cut it as a photojournalist.

P.S. In other unsettling Rosslyn-related matters, check the end of my Kathleen Matthews post from the end of last month for an unwelcome update.

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posted by WWB at 1:51 PM |