San Francisco's Millennium Tower stabilized, but still tilting
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2023
- New monitoring data shows that while the $100 million Millennium Tower fix appears to have stopped further sinking and tilting, the building is not reversing the lean at the rate predicted by engineers. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.
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Everything in San Francisco leans to the left 😂
That would be funny except if you go to the opposite side of the tower it leans Right
@@HingleMacCringleberry Not if you are still facing the same direction.
These are funny comments !!!😅
You have rotated the tires on a car with a bent frame. 😂
I bet your from Kentucky
Brilliant analogy.
@mikeprice4103 I'll bet you're from skidrow, texting this on an Obama Phone.
Put a wad of napkins underneath a corner of the building, that's what I do with my uneven chair. You're welcome
Funny 😄
One of the most interesting aspects of this whole saga to me is how after every corrective action, the powers that be declare victory, start giving each other 'good games', and opening champagne. Then something happens to show that no, in fact, it definitely isn't fixed. Then they go right back to work with the tough, serious talk, and, having sternly applied another two layers of very expensive duct tape, begin celebrating again. It seem like this cycle has been repeated a dozen times. The Hamburglar and crew will go to any lengths to sell the story that now everything is under control despite all history and evidence to the contrary.
We have all been saying it for years, but apparently it needs to be said again: this building cannot and will not be fixed. It isn't possible. The emperor has no clothes. What we have here is a 'botch,' and, like the famous bent pyramid, one will always be able to tell it is a botch. That is, as long as it remains standing. This whole kabuki theater has been orchestrated to separate those responsible from liability for their incompetence and graft with as much time as possible.
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Well put 🤝
Please interview the residents. I want to know how many have already packed up and left and how many are ready to sell. That race happens usually a year before the collapse. I hope no one loses their lives.
Just because something slightly tilts doesn’t make it dangerous. More annoying than anything.
@@user-ii3cf6xe5vhaving any tilts are never ok with any level headed person.😂
Good luck selling, you would have to be a little out of plum to purchase there.
I can't imagine anyone wanting to buy a condo there unless they are dirt cheap. I hear the tilt causes plumbing problems. I'm sure the original buyers are going to lose a lot of money if they sell. Hopefully over time the tilt will get less severe, but who knows how long that'll take if it even does.
Going to be tough to sell the apartments.
Owners are waiting for an Earthquake to collect insurance instead of tearing it down to fix correctly.
Insurance usually does not cover Earthquake damage.
Not with all insurance companies canceling in California!😂😂😂
Good luck SalesForce
So how’s the plumbing working?
A structure this tall and this heavy should've never been built on that land. As such, this structure will continue to be a problem...until it is demolished. The developers and SF officials will continue lying about why the problems exist until the building is demolished. Then they'll lie about why the building was demolished.
Don't worry it'll demolish itself. I give it a year.
@@phillpauley6672 Want to bet
@@mikeprice4103 You've bet this before and you lose every time. Just sit down and let the engineers work this out. It's way above your paygrade.
@@TohaBgood2 The comment of yours makes no sense?
@@mikeprice4103 "The comment of yours"? What? Speak English please. What were you trying to say?
If it is still tilting it is not stabilized. A little play on words doesn't mean the problem went away or wrong suddenly becoming right.
Right on. More double speak. 'Stable' means more than simply 'not moving anymore' to you or me. The building could fall over and be laying on it's side, and Captain Ron would declare it 'stable.'
I think what they mean is "tilted".
It's tilting but it's not getting any worse. That's what they mean.
More proof that the movie "Ideocracy" was an actual a documentary.
A tilt that severe of a building that size the added stress on structural components must be extreme. Static loads and live loads are calculated with the center of gravity vertically so this is uncharted water. Within 10 years the tower will be a total loss 📉
I question the ability of the foundation to handle the additional loading it was not designed to handle, given all the attached new hardware. Did they calculate side loading? Will the foundation start to crumble due to the 18 attached piles? Do they design foundations to handle a transfer of load to the outer perimeter from the expected loading zone, under it? Something seem very wrong about the fix.
@@thomastucker5686 IT IS BEAM TO BEAM CONNECTION IS IT NOT? HOW FAR ARE THE PILES AWAY AND HOW FAR IS THE EXTENSION OF THE BASE? 30 FT? OR FAR LESS. BASICALLY WEIGHT IS TRANSFERRED TO THESE NEW PILES AND EXTENSION IS NOT REALLY CANTILEVER AS IT IS LIKE EXTENSION OF WHOLE RECTANGULAR BASE!!
AM I CORRECT?
@@king_has_no_clothskul8635 I am thinking the attachment method to the foundation is the critical loading point(s). The maximum loading will be at these points, in my opinion. They will see the normal loading for that section of foundation and the additional loading due to the shift of weight with leaning. Because there are so few piles, the weight is at few points along the foundation. So at least some of the buildings weight is loading at the attachment points to the foundation, instead of an even distribution of weight along the entire foundation. The piles will not fail. The foundation itself will fail. The concrete was never intended to be loaded in this fashion before. Foundations are not designed to have outriggers attached in the event of stupidity. They might get lucky. Concrete does fail spectacularly.
The engineer: The perfect place to build this massive tower is on a foundation of wet sand.
Just do what I did for my old Tool Shack that was tilting in the backyard, Get a 2 by 4 and shove it in the area it's tilting. That'll straightend it out in no time!
You forgot the /sarc in your statement.
Every lie is a Debt to the truth until one day, that debt is collected. Unfortunately, in this case, the debt will be paid with human lives.
What a nightmare..how can one sleep at night living there?
The more i think about the residents the more heart-wrenching it is. Cant sleep? Well heres a bill for 10 grand.
"If it turns out there is no further long term recovery, a ninety foot underground wall we first told you about last year, may be to blame. It's buried right under neath the higher side of the foundation that needs to sink if the tower is going to straiten even a few inches . Millennium officials say their model predicts the wall will itself sink along with the foundation over time." Lmfao
Lmfao indeed. Seems like that wall has been holding up it's side pretty good so far!
I worked in that tower. As a young man fresh out of high school, these were some of the greatest times of my life.
I stand corrected, I began 2 understand that money is the key that opens doors 2 that glass house 40 stories up.
Wow, so eager to join the corrupt system of business and government. What is your obsession with that? Are you just naturally evil or did your parents teach you that?
@@petebusch9069I need food and shelter, can’t buy those with principles bud
@@teubks You sure can. It called an honest days work for an honest dollar. The problem most people have is they don't want to actually work when the show up at their job. There is TONS of money to be made in any of the trades and is very easy to get into. If you think your going anywhere following the "system" just look at the past, nobody gets anywhere ever.
The millennial tower is not the only thing jacking in San Francisco!
Unlike Pisa, it will be a monument to hubris and greed.
take a gander at San Francisco’s millennium tower. That skyscraper is leaning more than 16 inches or more off plumb and sinking. Efforts by the engineers have supposedly stopped it from sinking, but they can’t get it straightened. look up the building to determine exactly how much off center it currently leans. My sister met one of the condo owners who lives in the building, and was told that the lean is enough for kitchen cabinet doors to swing open and drawers to slide outward. I wonder how long that building will be able to take the stress of it having that much weight leaning to one side. It’s a very tall skyscraper very close to other skyscrapers.
WELL, THEY LET IT SINK OTHER-SIDE WHICH MAY NOT SINK THAT MUCH BECAUSE THAT SIDE NO BAY-TRANSIT WORK WAS DONE. BUT IT WONT STRAIGHTEN OUT. CAN THEY LIFT THE BUILDING WITH A JACK? I DONT KNOW THAT. THEY HAVE EXTENDED FLOOR AND PUT NEW PILES ALL THE WAY TO THE BEDROCK AND NOW THE WEIGHT IS TRANSFERRED TO THEM AS FAR AS MY UNDERSTANDING. PILES ARE NOT DRIVEN IN THE CENTER OF BUILDING. IT IS ALL ON PERIPHERY( SOME SAID 30 FT EXTENSION BUT UNLESS YOU SEE IT I CANT TELL) SO THEY MIGHT HAVE TO LIVE WITH SOME TILT. ALL BUILDINGS HAVE SOME TILT TO THE TUNE OF 5 INCHES AT THE TOP. SO THIS ONE GETS TO 10 INCHES SHOULD BE OK. THE TOP IS INCLINED AS WELL!
City officials can be expected to sing the same song as the developpers. Both are complicit. I hope for the best but as the narrator suggested there are a multiple of assumptions in the coimputer modelling which was designed by the same guys that sold the fix.
Oh, I'm sure they can be trusted to be impartial. /s
If it's still "tilting" THEN IT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT "STABLE".!
A building can tilt but be stable if the tilt is stopped. It doesn't have to be reversed.
We all know it's going to collapse. I just hope it's captured on video.
Press f to doubt that the contractors who built it and did the fix 'got it right' this time around
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Remove the top 1/3 of the building. It's too heavy!!!
That would end the problem. $$$
Just let it fall already, let it fall so it can symbolize the the fall of the city from where it once stand. AN ICONIC SYMBOL
Friction piers are fine for certain applications; but for a substantial structure it is better to embed into bedrock. As any report will tell you, this building began to tilt and sink before it was finished.
THE DEMONSTRATION SHOWED IT WOULD STOP YOU CANNOT SINK ANYMORE. AND ALSO WHAT ABOUT FACTOR OF SAFETY? UNLESS YOU SEE ORIGINAL DESIGNS WE CANT TELL. ALL BUILDINGS SINK AS DURING CONSTRUCTION THEY GET WET AND THEN SEASONS. BUT THEY SINK EVENLY UNLIKE THIS.
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SOME TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION ON THE SIDE OF TILT ALSO MIGHT HAVE CAUSED OTHERWISE WHY WOULD IT ACCELERATE ON THAT SIDE AND NOT SUNK EVENLY ON OTHER SIDE? THEY DO NOT WANNA TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY!
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BUT FIRST THEY HAVE TO DRIVE PILE ALL AROUND IT AFTER IT BALANCES OUT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. IT IS YEAR TO YEAR PROCESS NOW. EXAMINE N ACT!!
At the end of the day, there is a good, time-tested reason for building down to the bedrock. Anything that isn't is going to sink. They built a 90-foot wall beneath the thing but if the bedrock is 200 feet down then a 90-foot wall is only going to sink. Even if the measures they have taken should stop the one side of the building from sinking, the other side will then sink - because there is nothing to stop that - and the building will tilt the other way. The building should have had its piles driven all the way to the bedrock. I'm inclined to think this building is ultimately doomed.
@gooser__43 could implode it onto itself in a controlled manner, but it'll still be dangerous, obviously. Just need to have everything fall straight down as much as possible.
According to the report the building is now stabilized. The 90' wall is on the high side of the building and if it sinks like they expect, it will only help level the building over time. I don't think it'll tilt in the opposite direction bc the reinforcements on the low side are designed to only counter the sinking --they are not going to push the building with a force greater than those supporting the high side up.
They were already having plumbing problems due to the tilt and windows have been cracking and failing lately. I wouldn't live there.
Wonder how the repairs and the tilt will affect the buildings ability to withstand earthquakes. What a bad situation
American engineering excellence is demonstrated here.
The remediation structure is an impressive piece of engineering.
If that tower gets condemned and proposed to be torn down, the cost would be multiple millions of dollars. There's precedent for that dollar amount, as in Las Vegas, the CityCenter project had the Harmon Tower constructed up to the 26th floor, where inspectors found structural flaws that made the building not in compliance with seismic codes [i.e. earthquakes]. So, that 26 floor structure had to be torn down piecemeal, as imploding it was too hazardous. The cost for that dismantling was $11.5 million; which was done a decade ago.
Given the current cost of labor and the challenges there could be for dismantling the Millennium Tower in the close confines of San Francisco, that cost could easily double that of the Harmon Tower.
ONE BIL AS THERE ARE TOO MANY VALUABLE MATERIALS THERE: GLASSES, ALL FLOOR TILES, FURNITURE ETC. RAW BUILDING IS 40% OF TOTAL BUILDING MAY BE LESS. SO LABOR COSTS ARE MORE.
SO 1.25 BIL -400 MIL OF WORTH SO NET LOSS IS 800 MIL PERHAPS. BUT YOU WOULD HAVE PREVENTED A MASSIVE DAMAGE TO THE TUNE OF 100 BIL IF SOMETHING BAD REALLY HAPPENED.
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BURDEN ON CITIZENS: 850K NOW*1000 DOLLARS, BUT SPREAD OVER 20 YEARS FROM DATE OF STRIPPING. BUILDING IS ALREADY 10 PLUS YEARS OLD. SO IT WOULD COME OUT TO 50 DOLLARS PER YEAR PER HEAD. NO BIG DEAL.
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THE LAND UNDERGROUND IS MARSHY SO UNLESS YOU BUILD ON SOLID ROCK THESE THINGS HAPPEN.
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BUT I DONT THINK IT WILL BE TAKEN OUT.
i wonder if a resident there has tried a Marble ball on the floor to see if it rolls to one side
Someone videotaped it. I saw it nearly 10 years ago and yes, he set a marble in the middle of the floor and off it rolled. At a decent rate of speed too!
Lol, I would never set foot near or inside that building
How can something be stabilized....
But still tilting 😂😂
The progress of the tilting has been arrested. I suggest you get a good dictionary.
hate to be the neighbors of that building who gets continual closer looks of it for all the wrong reasons.
earthquake and boom
I don't buy it , let's wait a few years
On the positive side in a few more years, San Francisco will have it's own leaning tower attraction!
The progress of the leaning has been arrested. The angle is about a quarter of one degree, which is too small to notice unless you live there.
At the end of the day the Leaning Tower of Frisco will have to come down.
can you imagine owning a condo in there as if they cant fix the tilt they cant fix plumming
It must be horrible being haunted by big bills, safety concerns, publicity, relying of the city, resale of your investment. The residents are real victims. And thats if the building doesnt collapse with them inside. Just awful.
"Stabilize but tilting?" Is that the same as straight but bent?
Is English your 2nd or 3rd language?
Dude, it's not complicated. It means that while it is tilting, it's not going to get any worse (i.e., it's stabilized).
I’m wondering how this building is going to hold up in a real big storm and if we will see it tilt some more?
We don't get big storms. And it is now anchored to bedrock so it will be fine in the case of an earthquake.
Good point. Huge wind loads applied to the buildings surface area is no joke.
I guess I always thought San Francisco would get big ocean storms coming across the ocean towards it. hopefully they’ll be able to stabilize this building and get it back. Perfect 🤩
It’s anchored to bed rock, but not directly below the building. They used some improvised method that attaches to the side of the foundation. I am not an engineer, but I would be very afraid of a storm or quake if I lived there.
@@TohaBgood2 only half the building is anchored to bedrock. i am not confident that the uneven anchoring is not going to destroy the building in a big earthquake.
Sign me up, where do I write my 50 million dollars to buy the penthouse?
Thank you NBC Bay area! Keep us updated. This is not the end. I agree with some of the comments that this building might need to be taken down. Unfortunately, that might change the surrounding geography and weaken the foundation of nearby structures like a domino effect.
I decided I might open a business at the millennium tower. I want to open a pizza restaurant I want to call it the leaning Tower of Pizza, of course they probably won't let me do it.
Can’t wait to see this fall on the middle of the day because MONEY
The Thames Barrier in London have piles which go down 360 feet. I don’t see how this buildings 80 feet piles could be expected to be sufficient
They weren’t sufficient, but the Thames Barrier presents a different problem. That structure must resist the river flow and the tides.
I wouldn't live in that building even if the apartment was free.
Can that building fits all homeless in SF?
Ya. And over time the whole building will sink. Or strong earthquake and its raining glass.
nothing straight in San francisco.
The trans bay transportation center across the alley from millennial tower excavated six floors down 25 feet away without adequate underpinning. The San Francisco building engineer signed off on this, and should be held responsible for this blunder.
YES, IT HAS TILTED THAT SIDE OBVIOUSLY THAT COULD BE ONE OF THE MAJOR REASON. WHY IT IS NOT TILTING ON OTHER--SIDE? ALL TALL BUILDINGS SINK BUT THEY SINK EVENLY!!
Just dismantle the tower, you've been warned
TIMBER !!!!!!!!!!!!
Wut?
"The problem is fixed but the problem still persists"
Listen more carefully and get a dictionary.
I guess everyone is trying to squeeze as much as they can out of the building before it has to be torn down.
Lesson learned. Always anchor high rises to bedrock.
i doubt that the lesson is learned. It was a lesson that was supposed to have been learned decades ago and has not stuck, so i have no confidence that they have now.
Lessons learnt soon to be forgotten as always happens.
Just bc this one building has an issue doesn't necessarily mean that the idea is bad --just a bad execution. When the first SpaceX rocket crash landed and blew up, we didn't say, "Gee, I guess that means we should give up and always use expendable rockets." The lessons learned here can actually be used when building similar buildings in the future to make them just as safe as the ones anchored to bedrock.
@@kenbob1071 there is even a song about building your house upon a rock. SF is landfill and has earthquakes. Everybody who live around here knows you drill to bedrock. does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
The place where Yakuza series final bosses are.
Arrest those city officials who approved the plan.
Well, when the architect submitted the plan, it'd include the survey and research and strength calculation. If the report was not correct as in this case, the blame should rest on the architect and the contractor. However, the city is putting up the bill for this as they should have required the piers to the stop layer. Actually, it is the tax payers who are making much less than most of the owners of the units in this building.
The city offcials dont really have the responsibility to know what a good design is. Professional engineers ("PE") can 100 percent face jail time.
It needs to be torn down . The building we'll never be safe!
Risk vs Reward. Please tell me what the reward for living in this disaster is? Are people's ego's really that big that they put image before common sense? The irony is these people actually brag about living there when most people will look at them as a fool for doing so. If I somehow ended up living there I would keep it a HUGE secret.
"Unless we further correct the tilting, we are stuck with the current amount of tilting."
"Its who builds the building" - Sarkis RDBLA
I'm no engineer but it seems to me that the new structures aren't working as planned because they're stretching. When they finally break the building will fall suddenly.
The "Building Integrity' channel did a great video analyzing the 'fix' you might be interested in: ua-cam.com/video/Xezg8PxVSYA/v-deo.html He is an engineer and discusses exactly what you're talking about.
I don't think it's stabilized if it's still tilting. Would have cost $5 million to build the pillars into bedrock at the beginning of the project, but they did it on the cheap. Cheap and engineering never really go well together...
It is stabilized. The degree of tilt is not increasing.
You have to ask would you spend the money on a condo in that building. I'd probably just roll a ball in a room and see if it, over time, rolls faster to a corner. I guess some will have more trust than others in living in that tower. The office space isn't need right now, and may never be needed.
That’s not what stabilized is in a seismic zone…
I wouldn't own in this once fantastic city but if I did it would be at least a few miles away to avoid becoming collateral damage.
Uh, whoever stated the building is stabilized………IS LYING…..just wait.
Yep. Blatant widespread lying is how all business and politics is conducted nowadays-especially in places like SF.
They should have consulted Art Vandelay
They should just add more spacers to bring the tilt back to normal. 😊
Major accomplishment???? They should have drilled down into the bedrock initially. They wanted to cut costs. Ridiculous.
Nothing would make me happier than to see San Francisco go completely and totally bankrupt.
You're a true patriot 🙄
Why don’t you ever show any of the construction job site your news cast looks fake
The title: Stabilized but still tilting ....so not stabilized NBC?
It is stabilized. The tilting has been arrested.
This must be the 20th comment I've read that doesn't get this simple concept. I can lean up against a wall and still be stable. The two are not mutually exclusive. Get it?
once it started tipping only a matter of time when it falls. Earthquake shaking ground will help .
I love the last line, maybe the Millennium Officials are right, the Titanic stopped sinking.
Forget computer modeling: Good old fashion calculations of every mechanical structure element in the entire design systems are vital to avoid the repeated errors by using computer modeling that failed in the first place.
Common sense is not common, especially in San Francisco and California in general.
-Just saying!
Forever might be a bit optimistic.
A building which still tilts 28+ inches is not acceptable. I would not want to live there.
Nobody's going to want to buy a condo there even if it is dirt cheap.
How would it survive an earthquake?
We just had a magnitude 4.0 near San Francisco, only minutes ago. Check your breaking news.
Who dares live in this apartment?
IT WASN'T BUILT TO WITHSTAND A TILT THAT SEVERE FOREVER.....AND IT WON'T....
The tilt is about one quarter of one degree. That is not enough to endanger the structure.
@@GH-oi2jf BRILLIANT ANSWER!
I saw an IMAX documentary 5-6 years ago that featured this building. It highlighted the diversity hire who had recently graduated with honors from Stanford University that was in charge of the entire project. I recall the film reiterating again and again how the tower could have never been built without her inspiring wisdom and innovation. I never see her picture or hear her name when they talk about the epic fail.
Seems they (whomever ‘they’ are) also didn’t talk about this person when the tower was built because the story isn’t true.
What about your skin makes you a better hire? Did this diversity hire not graduate honors at Stanford? Or was the performance metric at the school a diversity bump as well? Do you know what grades and scores this diversity hire have in order to get into Stanford? I get it, some idiots do get the jobs. Some geniuses and hard workers make stupid mistakes. But your presumptions make you a simp. And if you have some high prestige job it they must've left out a factor bc you think with this kind of logic and can't even shake it... Everything bad must be the fault of the colored skin. In fact, if life is good for you against all odds being beaten down from all the diversity, why even hate?
A bullshitter, from Stanford?! No waaaaaaaYyyyyy
Spare us your misogynistic, racist BS. When you have to lie to try to make your point, you have no point.
Wait intil the 6.5 quake hits.
how can this be consider as fix and acceptable and called a success?!
it is just a matter of time before it starts again!
will you live there knowing it will always be tilted?!
what is the life cycle before it start tilting again?
what is the safety measure?
this is one of the reason why our country is falling apart!
No. Explicitly no. This was a fix to anchor the building to bedrock. Not to reverse the tilt. The models show that this was supposed to kill to birds with one stone and it only hit the second "bird" partially. There was some tilt recovery but not as much as predicted.
But the original idea of anchoring to the bedrock did save the building and that was the whole point of the project! Now natural sinking will set it which will very gradually correct the tilt over time.
@@TohaBgood2 i know that and i understand that!
are they going to re-tilt the building back? if not are you going to live in such a building? how many people bought property there would want to live in a building with such a tilt?
do you get my point?!
it is not a fix, it is a bandage and they wanna get away with it to leave it as is!
this is one of the root cause of the issue in our country why our country is falling apart!
She's going down. 🤷♂️
Don't worry. It will only tilt until the next earthquake
The building has value know it is worth 4million
If it is still tilting… then it is not secure.
Is anyone buying units here at present?
Can we please have a good 8.5 earthquake just to see this thing come down.
That's what I was wondering. With the building tilting there's no way it passes earthquake codes
7.0 might do it
What a perfect symbol for the tech industry! Sinking and empty and without integrity.
Typical BS ...if it's still tilting, it IS NOT stabilized.
We are waiting for it to fall down and crashing into our bed, this is similar to leaning tower in Italy. When human extinction in next million years later it will be a icon tourist spot for rebirth earth.
When the next Loma Perata size earthquake hits it will fall.
Obviously it didn't stop anything
“It” meaning what? The support structure built on the west corner of this building has, in fact, stopped the progress of the tilting. There are weekly reports online documenting this.
Bruh this thing is going to collapse and thousands of people will die
IT CANT COLLAPSE . THE WEIGHT OF FOUNDATION IS MUCH HIGHER ALONG WITH PILES. THE CG OF WHOLE BUILDING IS PASSING THROUGH WITHIN ITS BASE--- RECTANGLE. YOU CAN MAKE A TEST YOURSELF. TAKE A RECTANGLE WITH HEIGHT FIVE TIMES THE BASE AND TRY TO TILT WITH JUST 2 INCHES AND SEE IF IT FALLS. YOU NEED TO LIFT IT MORE THAN SERIOUS DEGREE FOR IT TO FALL. RIGHT NOW IT IS SITTING ON ITS WEIGHT( MASSIVE WEIGHT) AND ATTACHED TO PILES UNLIKE BUILDING SITTING FLAT. IT WONT FALL. IT IS LIKE BENT TREE!!!!!
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IF PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, YOU CAN TAKE OUT 20 STORIES TO REDUCE THE WEIGHT SUBSTANTIALLY. BUT THE NEW TRANSFORMATION OF WEIGHT MUST WORK AS PILES ARE DRIVEN TO THE ROCK AND WHOLE BUILDING WILL REST ON IT WHEN IT STABALIZES( WILL TAKE A DECADE). 82 PILES AND ORIGINAL PILES IT WOULD BE QUITE STRONG COME TO THINK OF IT!!
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THEY ONLY DREW 18 ON ONE SITE AS IT STRAIGHTENS OUT ON THE OTHER SIDE THEY WILL PUT PILES THERE TOO. BUT IT WONT STRAIGHTEN SO FAST. AT LEAST HALF DECADE HAS TO GO BY OR FULL DECADE!! AND LIVE WITH SOME TILT NOT MORE THAN 10 INCHES PERHAPS!!!
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HAS THE LEANING TOWER OF PIZZA COLLAPSED? IT IS MORE THAN 300 OR 400 YEARS OLD NOW!!!
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WE SHALL SEE!!!!