Broken Glass

[Mike Poore]

Actually it was jimlam56 in post 10 that said Katrina, first, 11 min before me. So I deferr......:trophy1:


edit......and we were both wrong.:rofl:

 

[sailsmen]

So pressure variance caused the glass to pop out

Thats my analysis based on what I saw.

What interesting is how little damage the AMOCo building had. It had pop out pressure panels.

All the roof top mechanical were swept away. The glass was tempered and very little of it shattered. They were really concerned about small glass parts hitting pedestrians and that is what delayed the reopening.

I don't think the building owner knows what tempered glass is.

6 weeks after Katrina it was in better shape than before.

 

[Taemian]

Someone imploded another building close to it. Perhaps extra pyrotechnics were used during the implosion due to the implosion being filmed for a movie. The implosion explosions plus movie pyrotechnics blew out a lot of the windows.

+1 ^^^ We've done that in downtown Vancouver a few times, but I won't mention the time the "controlled" house fire spfx shot got out of control and became a 3 alarm fire.....