Holy crap, Chinese hotel falling over

[stabiz]

http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/08/09/nyheter/utenriks/kina/tyfon/7578852/

From the typhoon over there, (Yes, Norwegian site, but just click the video thumbnail on the large picture to watch)

[SteamWake]

Theres alot more going on there than buildings falling down.

They have recieved over 100" of rain in two days thats not a typo over one hundred inches in two days and thousands if not millions are displaced and homeless. Flooding is out of control.

Now before you global warming activists pipe up this is the worst flooding China has suffered in 50 years. Thats right this kind of event happened 50 years ago.

[Jimbuna]

That guy in the forefront of the gathering is complaining that he left his watch in his room. :o

[Tribesman]

Holy crap, Chinese hotel falling over

Wow, a multi story built on that subsoil next to water with just a plain raft.
Some Taiwanese building inspector is going to really get it for signing off on that development.

[Task Force]

In republic or china hotels fall around you!

well... thats why you never build a hotel on a sland/side of a river/weakground...

[Tribesman]

In communist china hotels fall around you!

Errrr... It is Taitung county in the Republic of China.


well... thats why you never build a hotel on a sland/side of a river/weakground...
You can build a hotel just about anywhere you want, but the foundations have to be suitable for the location.

[Task Force]

Errrr... It is Taitung county in the Republic of China.



You can build a hotel just about anywhere you want, but the foundations have to be suitable for the location.

lol china has countys... thought that was a southern us thing...

well... from what ive seen of how things often go in china... its not a good idea...