Tall Buildings Shake

[mikeyboy]

I'm in Chicago for work, and I'm in a hotel on the 33rd Floor. This morning I woke up to a creaking that sounded like I was on the inside of a boat. I believe that when you're up so high, the building can shift in the wind, hence the creaking. The funny thing is that at ground level today, it wasn't all that windy. In fact, a cab driver told me it was supposed to be one of the mildest days on record for Chicago in November. It's kind of cool, but more than a little disconcerting.

It just started up again. I can tell already I'm going to have a tough time sleeping because of the noise.

On an unrelated note -- has Roger Ebert lost some weight? If so, I think I ran into him in the lobby.

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This message was edited by mikeyboy on 11-20-03 @ 7:42 PM

[SatCam]

maybe the couple next door were making love?

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If so, they fuck really slow.

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[Snoogans]

I believe that when you're up so high, the building can shift in the wind, hence the creaking


maybe its cause you were just high

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[Death Metal Moe]

I know it doesn't help you much, but just be GLAD for that noise. Be glad the building gives a little instead of snapping. It was designed to do that.

A union guy told me that in the WTC on windy days, the water would slosh out of the toilets the building moved so much.

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[Arienette]

yeah, i used to work in one of the "other" world trade center buildings. i wasn't even that high up, but on windy days, you could hear the building creak, and could feel it swaying. i always got freaked out by it but, like moe said, knew logically that i should be glad.

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[IrishAlkey]

Michael J. Fox isn't tall at all, and he shakes.

Explain that.

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[Mike Teacher]

Oh yeah theyre built to sway.

Ever been to a concert or game at Giants Stadium in those upper tiers when people start stomping? Yikes.


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[Death Metal Moe]

Or ya ever get stuck in traffic on a suspention bridge?

Good times.

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[TooCute]

Did you hear escaping voices, too?

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[mikeyboy]

Did you hear escaping voices, too?


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[monsterone]

If so, they fuck really slow.



that guy must have the most penetrating death stroke ever.


makes me think of that age old debate of whether lois lane could handle superman's super sperm.

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[FUNKMAN]

hopefully them union guys put all the rivets in they were suppose to. not to get you worried or anything but i heard some stories...



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[Death Metal Moe]

not to get you worried or anything but i heard some stories...


Well I will get you worried. Lots of those guys are felons and drunks. They do rails off the I beams and like to cut out other trade's work if it's in their way.

Plus, they piss on EVERYTHING.

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[TooCute]

makes me think of that age old debate of whether lois lane could handle superman's super sperm.


I think he could bust her out and go do it.

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i think

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[zoom2457]

Or ya ever get stuck in traffic on a suspention bridge?


YES!!! I was so freaked out I almost bailed and left my car on the bridge. Seriously, if my apartment swayed that much, I would move.

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[Wormwood]

Tall Buildings Shake


so does my grandmother.

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[Justice4all]

To answer your other question...yes he did lose weight...I think he got his stomach stapled or gastric bypass or something like that.

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Do the walls start bleeding too?

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[A.J.]

Maybe the whole building is a huge super-conductive antenna that was designed and built expressly for the purpose of pulling in and concentrating spiritual turbulence.

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[East Side Dave]

Did you hear escaping voices, too?


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I was gonna say what TooCute said! I was! So I quoted the applause so that I could get some applause, too. Ah, the polite sounds of blue alien hand applause, ah.



Did Roger Ebert lose some weight?


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[TooCute]

I was gonna say what TooCute said! I was!

But you DIDN'T, did you boy?? GO SING YOUR SAD SONGS NOW!!!

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[JustJon]

But you DIDN'T, did you boy?? GO SING YOUR SAD SONGS NOW!!!


Sad songs they say soooooooooooo much...



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[The Chairman]

No, I did not feed her that line. I'm reading this just now, scrolling down, knowing exactly what I'm gonna post, and then pow...I'm reminded again why our love is all of God's money.

Anyway, I'm heading to Tupelo, Mississippi via Chicago next week. Do they have skyscrapers there? Do they scrape?

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[Furtherman]

I'm on the 15th floor and it creaks here all the time. In fact, as I look out the window, the tops of all these buildings are swaying like pussywillows. I just needed to get that word in here.


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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

A union guy told me that in the WTC on windy days, the water would slosh out of the toilets the building moved so much.


My friend's dad worked in the Trade Center. On windy days his secretary would get nauseous because the building would sway.

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[Patches]

I am on the 6th floor in an apt building. When we had that windstorm last week the water in the toilet blew around. Is that why?

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[Mike Teacher]

I am on the 6th floor in an apt building. When we had that windstorm last week the water in the toilet blew around. Is that why?


Might be but even folks on the ground floor might notice that on a very windy day, the water in the toilet can start moving up and down and around.

Instead of my usual dry boring explanation: It's basically the same physics that will sometimes take the roof off a house but leave the walls standing in a tornado

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[pennington]

A union guy told me that in the WTC on windy days, the water would slosh out of the toilets the building moved so much.


I worked on the 102nd floor of the WTC for a summer in the 80's. Doors would slam shut, pencils would roll off your desk, coffee would spill out of your cup if it was too full. It never bothered me that much but it was definitely something you noticed the first day.

[El Mudo]

I think all this has to do with "natural frequencies"...like everything in nature has a "natural frequency" that if its reached like in a building or something, the force of that freqency will make it unstable...thats why if an infantry unit marches across a pontoon bridge they have to march out of step or the bridge will sway all over the place..

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