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High rise window fail in San Francisco storm 2

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I suspect its to limit the follow through as the tip doesn't come out very far. And the glass basically drops vertically and you don't need to swing anything. They can also mount it on a suction cup holder and trigger it with a string.
 
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You never want to be standing in front of any opening you just made whether it be a door or broken window during a fire. Any new opening introduces oxygen to the space and can cause a flashover.
 
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Its all sensible stuff.

The old untreated glass does change, the reason I really don't know. I just know don't even attempt to cut it for a cheap fix for someone's green house. It just splits in funny directions never along the line.

They have loads of sheets of it around me of unknown age. I won't go near it. But you can see people sitting next to piles of broken glass trying to turn it into something. They spend 2-3 days messing around with it, when for 20 euro they could just email the local DIY shop with the sizes and pick it up the next day. And if you need to trim it then you can do. If the heavens align and you manage a straight cut with the old stuff and try and touch it again I have never yet seen it work.

You might wonder why I get involved in glazing. Basically its the kids playing and when something gets broken I really can't be bothered by the week of finger pointing and kangaroo courts trying to find out what happened. So I just get the size email the DIY shop stick the tools in the car pick it up and fit it without getting involved. And strangely there seems to be other fathers in the area that have learned this behaviour cuts out the ear ache and do it as well now. Seems to annoy some though as it removes the entertainment of a community kangaroo court.

So I can see windows lasting years through more severe weather then all of a sudden them breaking for apparently little reason if its cheap untreated glass.

 
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555 California St. was built in 1969. No doubt it has been reglazed at least once and is probably due for another reglazing.
 
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Without any equivocation, for once, one can actually state, "This is Trump's fault", as 555 California St. is owned in part by the Trump organization & Vornado Realty Trust.
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The problems are not isolated to Trump's tower.


I believe there was at least one other highrise that lost panes.

The winds weren't that high, is it common for buildings in hurricane country to lose panes in 50-60mph winds? Maybe this is a government problem to have such a cluster of failures.
 
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Article about highrise windows in hurricane country:



This winter has been quite something around here (SF Bay Area).

On the plus side, our California water resource people have been building many reservoirs over the last years, and all that extra water has been caught and stored for later drought. OOPS! No, sorry. That's an alternate reality.

Speaking of alternate reality: how about instead of the High Speed Train to Nowhere, that money had been spent on reservoirs? In THIS reality. Or maybe even (more) desalination.


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Speaking of alternate reality: how about instead of the High Speed Train to Nowhere, that money had been spent on reservoirs?
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That's easy, just monetize the water. Water rates are currently in the pennies per gallon range; amp that up to, say, $0.25/gal and people will stop using as much water, and there'll be more people interested in saving every drop of rainwater. If your water bill were $800/month, I think you'd even be interested lobbying anyone you can find to build more reservoirs and perhaps even build cisterns and roof-top/backyard rain catchers.

It's only about $10B, so the other choice is to raise taxes, either directly, or for the interest on the bonds required.

TTFN (ta ta for now)
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Been doing a fair bit of research into glass on silicone glazing. Dow-Corning specializes in this. Some of their silicones are hurricane and explosion rated. My problem is that the windows were applied to the aluminum structure after it was painted. The bond between the paint and aluminum has failed. Haven't lost a window yet but they leak like heck.
 
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Just buying windows for my workshop and this thread got me well clued up for the different options.

Al frames are a pain. And colossally thermally ineffective.

My max wind speed though is only 25 m/s

 
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Whatever you charge for water, you can't sell it if you don't have it.


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Those reservoirs take money to build, as you know.

But without them, all that water that just went out into the ocean isn't going to be available for the next drought.

I would rather have built reservoirs than a high speed passenger line that whisks people from Merced to Fresno at a breakneck speed. At no small cost. When it's finally done.


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"OK, you're volunteering to pay the $10B in taxes? Thanks for your generosity."

Well, if I can jack up the water prices like you're advocating ("...say, $0.25/gal..."), it DOES look like a really good investment (building new reservoirs).

What slows my admittedly un-financed enthusiasm is the thought that the Great State of California would decide I was being very bad, and "stat-ilize" my investment. I could be in error in predicting the actions of government entities, of course.


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Note that their facade program targets the oldest buildings buildings in SF yet all of the failures were on newer constructions.
 
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