It seems like the gravity of this situation is starting to sink in to everyone.
@TheRobWay15 ай бұрын
Hello, this is Dr Grande
@hifijohn5 ай бұрын
Ron hamburger got himself into quite a pickle.
@DeadEnduro5 ай бұрын
I was leaning towards the same conclusion
@jimarcher52555 ай бұрын
I have a sinking feeling.
@GoldenArmory5 ай бұрын
Nice😂
@ketratech81655 ай бұрын
Leaning Tower of SF
@Khultan5 ай бұрын
🤣LOL
@mikeifyouplease5 ай бұрын
Is it leaning to the Left?
@miket42345 ай бұрын
@@mikeifyoupleasemines lean to the left
@gr8dvd5 ай бұрын
I think you have a bright future in marketing 😀
@LuckyBaldwin7775 ай бұрын
More like the leaning tower of greed.
@LuckyDuckie1155 ай бұрын
All because the developer refused to spend another $20 million to make sure the pillars touched bedrock
@Katie-sf7jt5 ай бұрын
Was that all it would have cost? Wow.
@fanatamon5 ай бұрын
How were they allowed to not go on to bedrock?
@pete50445 ай бұрын
Source?
@user-vb8yf8be3l5 ай бұрын
There may not be bedrock SF is built on sand and dirt@@fanatamon
@fanatamon5 ай бұрын
@@user-vb8yf8be3l why were they allowed to build on that.
@Chilos495 ай бұрын
Their HOA is around $1700/month. What a bunch of dummies
@pigeonhed29795 ай бұрын
WHAAAAAT?! For real? Good lord, that's insane...
@anderander56625 ай бұрын
It's San Francisco, that's not the only crazy thing going on
@Battleneter5 ай бұрын
Better get in fast before they are all gone !
@danielterry3825 ай бұрын
Maybe if everyone started fasting 3 days per week ?
@susangreene96625 ай бұрын
HOA without possibility of surrounding land or house paint issues? Outlaws with willing victims!
@lesliepropheter50405 ай бұрын
What a huge grift that tower turned out to be
@Nite2012Mare5 ай бұрын
The engineers won AWARDS for cutting corners 😳😳
@debrariat68845 ай бұрын
what a huge grift sf codes department turned out to be
@user-fg4fr2bz5y5 ай бұрын
I wonder if Joe Montana, Carmen Policy,and other celibrities are still living there!😮
@willisbarth5 ай бұрын
If it’s a grift, it might also be a graft.
@erikanders33435 ай бұрын
@@debrariat6884 nope the codes allowed them to do this to themselves.
@Bretware9045 ай бұрын
Yep, many engineers said the slab would break because its not designed to be under tension....
@fanatamon5 ай бұрын
Yeh and concretes tensile ability is shiiit.
@TVHouseHistorian5 ай бұрын
From what I understand, the current foundation was designed for a much lighter building. Somewhere in the process, the more expensive higher-tech materials they originally intended on using were scrapped in favor of using less expensive and much heavier materials. The design they went with should have necessitated going down to bedrock, and that would have been end of story.
@elizabethwitt26215 ай бұрын
@@TVHouseHistoriantrying to save $5M cost them like $100M...so far. Idiots. This building is going to be something that haunts all involved for eternity and will put them all out of business with repairs and lawsuits. An earthquake will take that building out. How are they (and the crooked city) going to live with all that blood on their hands? Note to self: When building a skyscraper do it right from the start. Cheap, crooked, thieving bastards.
@GailUrge-vq6qn5 ай бұрын
Sounds like those States that are undergoing Democrat Party control like California, New York and Texas. They are going to break because those States are not designed to be under tension and stress from Democrat Party policies and corruption.
@tqlla5 ай бұрын
Sometimes you have to abandon a sinking ship, no matter how much it cost. This needs to be torn down, before something terrible happens.
@TVHouseHistorian5 ай бұрын
Who pays for the teardown?
@tqlla5 ай бұрын
@@TVHouseHistorian the city. These plans must have gone through some approval, and The builders already settled out. It’s either tear it down now, or let the building collapse and destroy the area around it.
@TVHouseHistorian5 ай бұрын
@@tqlla I agree something drastic has to be done. However, it’s not the city alone who bears this financial burden. It’s the taxpayers who are on the hook for this mess.
@tqlla5 ай бұрын
@@TVHouseHistorian Unfortunately, I believe the Builder already settled litigation, so I dont think they will have any more liabilities. So yes, its on the tax payers. If this building collapses catastrophically, their will be a much larger bill and the cost could be lives.
@HobbyOrganist5 ай бұрын
The idiots who didnt design or build it right from the start.@@TVHouseHistorian
@mattkramer41325 ай бұрын
This is turning out to be an ultra-super slow moving 1970s disaster movie starring the likes of Charlton Heston and Lorne Greene.
@netram285 ай бұрын
Co-starring Karen Black and Valerie Perrine!
@timbrown80385 ай бұрын
They'll take a strap and a office chair and get Lorne to safety.
@tinto2785 ай бұрын
It makes great content.
@ShakespeareCafe5 ай бұрын
The immense weight of the concrete and steel building is bearing down hard on re-claimed bay mud with the bedrock below shaking its head
@Lizwindsor5 ай бұрын
Genius americans 🙄
@danieldanieldadada5 ай бұрын
That's every building in Mexico City
@rac10615 ай бұрын
@@LizwindsorWe were smart enough to overthrow the brits so…..
@MrScaryLemonHead5 ай бұрын
@@Lizwindsor you colonize the world… then cry about migrants….
@rizkyadiyanto79225 ай бұрын
@@rac1061not smart enough to get rid of spaniards.
@yamamancha5 ай бұрын
This is such a fascinating story. No way I'd buy, invest, or live anywhere near there.
@michaelwells73485 ай бұрын
Ya moms got 5 times what she paid in the 15 years she owned there- 500% not bad 😅
@Mrbfgray5 ай бұрын
Metaphor for a city rotten at the core and collapsing, as well as Salesforce ESG, DEI....
@Mrbfgray5 ай бұрын
@@michaelwells7348 Cut that in half for inflation, still not bad.
@norwegianblue20175 ай бұрын
I read the banks stopped lending on all commercial real estate loans in SF. Same for small business loans.
@jdos56435 ай бұрын
At this point that tower just need to be vacated and removed all the way and the money returned to the tenants there. It’s tilting it’s sinking. It was built on unstable foundation of rubble and dump.
@rodstarcke54235 ай бұрын
They should just condemn it to prevent another Surfside type collapse.
@thurlravenscroft25725 ай бұрын
Yeah
@bigbeefjoedaddy14 сағат бұрын
Nah. They should force all the politicians and builders to live in it .
@aguynamedscott115 ай бұрын
The Millennium Tower just never had the same opportunities as the older towers and deserves more support.
@anderander56625 ай бұрын
I think all the money they spent on it qualifies as reparations
@Thegonagle14 күн бұрын
Well said. That's one of the bedrock principles of tower construction.
@demonatemu5 ай бұрын
bruh just tear it down and turn it into a nice park they cut corners and who's stupid enough to buy/rent it now even if you paid me I wouldn't live in there
@sandozdelysid5 ай бұрын
That was my comment! We'll call the park "the bald patch" and say its due a receding skyline. We'll throw a couple raves between demo and park construction, it'll be great!
@jdos56435 ай бұрын
Or built that park and built the tower elsewhere where the ground is stable
@markat95765 ай бұрын
Seeing how the park would be in San Francisco it would make a lovely place for a new tent city full of homeless drug addicted psychopaths. I can see the blue tarps stretching from chain link fences already.
@goldbrick25635 ай бұрын
What if they paid you 500 million tho?
@j.griffin5 ай бұрын
@@goldbrick2563 Yeah,sure- but only if they gave me an emergency 1 hour time machine… But that’s not going to happen,either.
@yonusa725 ай бұрын
Engineering failure, and they’re making it worse. all because the contractor got greedy over 4 million in a 220million contract
@Leopold31315 ай бұрын
This is actually on the engineer, not the contractor. The engineer signed off on friction piles. And the friction piles are performing exactly as expected, which is to say, they aren’t performing.
@Therealw14 ай бұрын
@@Leopold3131You act as if he'd just fire himself by declining so they could hire another engineer to do the same thing.
@Mike-qo8nm5 ай бұрын
Even the cracks are now gone because of all the duct tape we used
@sclogse15 ай бұрын
Hey, if it was good enough for the astronauts...
@OublietteTight5 ай бұрын
"Handy man's secret weapon" Red Green
@attackb53495 ай бұрын
FLEX SEAL!
@elizabethwitt26215 ай бұрын
Oh, good! I feel so much better now. Duct tape does fix everything.
@HeadNtheClouds5 ай бұрын
It’s OK, they used some Flex Seal tape 😂
@AJXOXO-vz1pn5 ай бұрын
talked to an engineer about the sinking sides and now center. 1/10 of an inch sinking is not much, but dishing and cracking is significant. This building is going to collapse without notice and become one of the deadliest tragedies in American history.
@Zambineaux3055 ай бұрын
What I was thinking. I wouldn’t go near 2 miles of that place. People remember what happened to the apartment building in Surfside, FL And that was only a 12-story building. Imagine a skyscraper 😮
@trevorjensen27065 ай бұрын
Interesting prediction.
@rafael_lana5 ай бұрын
If you really talked to an engineer he would say that there will be plenty of notice (the cracks being a significant one). Should they schedule regular inspections, we will know when it's too dangerous to go in. What can't happen is expect the people who rent it to do it properly, authorities have to be on their neck the entire time.
@tw84645 ай бұрын
Yeah it sounds like it's destabilized and the foundation is compromised
@AJXOXO-vz1pn5 ай бұрын
@@Zambineaux305 it will go crack, crack, crack, BOOM! Break! This isn’t linear. Some cracks are small. Some cracks are large, but eventually the big one is going to break. There won’t be notice thatit will happen in 2 weeks and you have time to get your stuff out. It will just happen. And when it does, do you want to be 50 floors up?
@nz62415 ай бұрын
one factor remains constant...that its sinking lol
@larrybruce48565 ай бұрын
One would have thought the designers, builders, and construction companies would have learned from the 1980 earthquake where buildings that were built on "fill" collapsed. The Marina District buildings on "fill" were destroyed while others NOT built on "fill" still were standing.
@nz62415 ай бұрын
@@larrybruce4856 sheer stupidity or greed. Landfill always have greater possibility of liquification under a big earthquake, but they chose to ignore that in favor of huge profit, imho.
@willisbarth5 ай бұрын
In slow motion and the tension is quantifiable.
@Freshbott25 ай бұрын
@@nz6241I’d say greed. Stupidity suggests ignorance. They lied and withheld and the motivation was a few million dollars on a 350 million dollar project. Then again, arrogance is a type of stupidity so maybe a bit of both.
@nz62415 ай бұрын
@@Freshbott2 Yes I remember that they sidestepped some foundation work that was only 5 million dollars to build the foundation / footing of the building prior to building on top, and this is what happened.
@rocketraccoon19765 ай бұрын
I've got a sinking feeling about this... 😐
@mikeifyouplease5 ай бұрын
Yep! It's not lifting anyone's spirit.
@SoundofSilence4925 ай бұрын
😮😉🤣
@JEEDUHCHRI5 ай бұрын
You can lean on me if things get shaky.
@WillLeingang5 ай бұрын
😂
@willisbarth5 ай бұрын
At least when it falls the debris won’t fly in circles just above the ground. 🤷🏻♂
@PlumbNutz5 ай бұрын
It's a real good thing we don't have any earthquakes that could finish it off in this part of the country.
@dylanmccallister1888Ай бұрын
A lot of buildings i dont trust built there recently like 181 fremont. They are all standing on bay mud and sand. There is this thing called liquefaction, it does not take a very high moisture content in the soil with all that weight on top of it in an earthquake. and a lot of skyscrapers have been built since the 89 and 94 quakes so we dont know whats going to happen. Imagine a 1906 sized quake hits SF tomorrow. The whole downtown is going to look like a nuke went off
@jessiejoseph10935 ай бұрын
I was around when that was being built. The architects and engineers would send out press releases about the construction progress on the foundation. They crowed about it, they boasted and taunted us with their greatness. And this is the result. They spent too much time patting themselves on the back and not enough time on spec check.
@amaizeing.dumbass51235 ай бұрын
How old it is in comparison with the other buildings in the zone? I heard that there's, both older and newer, taller skyscrapers that have better foundings around there
@TheIHVPNetwork5 ай бұрын
believably unbelievable. I've worked in this industry for nearly half a century. Every city and project will always need someone like myself in those weekly meetings keeping these guys levelheaded & asking "what-if scenario" questions and having them on record---of which they hate. They're the cockiest people(architects and engineers) you've never met. Almost like guitar players. ;-)
@jessiejoseph10935 ай бұрын
@@amaizeing.dumbass5123 That is all true. The building was complete in 2009.
@crisissocoylike4465 ай бұрын
Are you a q.a.?
@chupacabra33315 ай бұрын
You’re not putting in a shed. It needed to go to bedrock to be stable long term. Are the engineers getting dumber lately or is it just me? They’re the ones we’re supposed to be counting on the most to check and recheck the math and safety factors.
@petertwiss3565 ай бұрын
This building is great for dogs. Balls roll on their own
@MysticWizardOfMind5 ай бұрын
They swing left and right too! And during penetration, they bounce up and down like a fun bag!
@wjohn97785 ай бұрын
Tilting 29" , just like walking up a hill, in the City! What a way to get exercise, just walk to to other side of the room!
@khunopie91595 ай бұрын
New SF Tourist Attraction: _The Sinking Tower Of Hamburger_
@AuroraBoarder15 ай бұрын
No steak in this Hamburger!
@ryanbarker52175 ай бұрын
what kind of earthquake is it going to take to knock this debacle over? isn't that the question we all really have?
@erikanders33435 ай бұрын
likely will not take an earthquake, wind and pressure will do it first
@susangreene96625 ай бұрын
Not much on the Richter Scale.
@ryanbarker52175 ай бұрын
@@susangreene9662 we can ask hamburger, and whatever he says we know that number will be wrong, so that should help narrow it down....
@xxxpensive14155 ай бұрын
😮 don't say that 😭
@user-kf4wh9qo5i5 ай бұрын
As I recall, the problem of the leaning tower was known while units were being sold. That means, there are owners who spent millions on this thing knowingly.
@arcanondrum65435 ай бұрын
"was known" by whom? Where does the R.E, Agent fit that detail in during the showing exactly?
@elizabethwitt26215 ай бұрын
It was known, but I would venture not disclosed to potential buyers. No one in their right mind would have bought there knowing this.
@annenelson56565 ай бұрын
@@elizabethwitt2621 Not disclosing that is so illegal in California. I hope they all lose their real estate licenses. Not that I have much sympathy for the buyers though.
@justayoutuber19065 ай бұрын
In SF everything leans a bit to the left
@OLDMANTEA5 ай бұрын
That depends on where you’re looking from
@NextNate035 ай бұрын
It's better then the right trying to overthrow the government on January 6th.
@pushslice5 ай бұрын
@@OLDMANTEA To all of us standing on firm ground, it…. is leaning left.
@tomevers66705 ай бұрын
@@OLDMANTEAIt only looks normal if you’re looking from the Castro.
@Rightly_Divided5 ай бұрын
@@tomevers6670 Everything looks normal when you are looking from Castro
@goldgeologist53205 ай бұрын
“The overall situation is very complex”. Best quote of this year!
@joeblow1688Ай бұрын
Let me simplify it for him. The building is sinking.
@bonitobonita92635 ай бұрын
Isn’t it too dangerous to keep that building in the middle of the town?
@KingSally925 ай бұрын
Downtown SF is pretty much landfill so yeah.
@bartonpercival32165 ай бұрын
Yup, everything East of Kearny street is landfill!!!! 👍
@ho70925 ай бұрын
Not really - more deaths for the city = more insurance claims and fear, resulting in more power for politicians.
@jessiejoseph10935 ай бұрын
Yep, but imagine the cost of tearing it down. Honestly, I would not want to live or work anywhere around there.
@erikanders33435 ай бұрын
Its not even the tallest in the area, just 2 blocks is the much larger and taller Salesforce tower. However it was build properly, this building was not.
@IamNiggler5 ай бұрын
'can I pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today"
@mplsmark2225 ай бұрын
Oh Wimpy. Maybe the only thing can save the MT is Popeye and his cans of spinach.
@willisbarth5 ай бұрын
Exactly.
@Canary20195 ай бұрын
We had a midrise building sinking in the center recently here in Chicago. Perhaps they need to get a hold of the engineers that fixed the one here.
@traildoggy5 ай бұрын
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
@citylimits89275 ай бұрын
When they come to a fork in the road, they may have to take it! Are there any other applicable Yogi Berra-isms out there? (Actually, Berra did not originate the one on theory vs. practice.)
@soaringvulture5 ай бұрын
@@citylimits8927 I always thought that it was too sophisticated for Yogi.
@danasmith8585 ай бұрын
I thought practice made perfect?
@Denastus5 ай бұрын
@@danasmith858practice makes permanent. There's no such thing as perfection.
@user-pw3ji3rn3s5 ай бұрын
Gee the guys who were paid millions to fix this were "overly optimistic". Shocking!
@johnhmielewski12305 ай бұрын
TIMBER!!!
@videomaniac1085 ай бұрын
I think that the dishing and cracking are likely consequences of the asymmetric load placed on the foundation slab with its 18 rigid columns attached to the two sides and anchored to bedrock. Torsional stresses acting upward on the points of attachment of the pillars to the slab would cause flexing of the slab upward and tensile stress on the bottom side of the slab, possibly overcoming the prestressed compressive stress in the slab. This might then cause the concrete to crack and the slab to further deform. A symmetrical arrangement of pillars to bedrock might not have reversed the tilt but might have arrested the further progress of the tilting. Trying to reverse the tilt of such a tall and heavy building would require such a large moment of force(torque) acting across the base of the slab that the structural integrity of the slab might not be able to support it. Being concrete, the slab can bear enormous loads in compression, but not tension.
@borisbadaxe96785 ай бұрын
In response, the city of San Francisco has declared that they will no longer allow skyscrapers to be built out of paper mache.
@hypsyzygy5065 ай бұрын
Prawn Cracker skyscrapers are fine, though.
@elizabethwitt26215 ай бұрын
Smart choice and no fixing giant cracks with duct tape anymore.
@kenchorney27245 ай бұрын
That's some quality engineering right there.
@lynsylva-bb6ss5 ай бұрын
About like China's
@AmsterdamHeavy5 ай бұрын
this saga is so hilarious
@bcatbb28965 ай бұрын
i wonder how strong a earthquake needs to be to make that tower topple, it cant be that high since its already tilted
@trevorjensen27065 ай бұрын
I think the tower itself would be fine, especially because it, like other tall buildings, us designed to sway in a major earthquake.
@bcatbb28965 ай бұрын
@@trevorjensen2706 maybe, who knows. im suspecting the foundation would be compromised since it wasn't meant to be like this because who in their right mind would design a titled tower
@bartonpercival32165 ай бұрын
I got 2 to 1 odds a 6.8 quake will take it down!!!!!!! Bet 👍
@larrybruce48565 ай бұрын
This building appears to be crumbling under its own weight. Windows cracking, marble siding splitting, separation between foundation and sidewalks. What does that tell you ??? Now that the exterior facade defects have been covered up and repaired, the center of the building is sinking. It seem like it's just a matter of time before this is a pile of rubble.
@magicunicorn65355 ай бұрын
During an earthquake, sandy soil shakes harder than other types, as does fill. Much of SF's land near the bay is filled-in marshland. During the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, the Veterans Admin. hospital came down because much of Sylmar is located on an alluvial fan - an area where sand has washed out of the nearby mountains for thousands of years. It's crazy that they didn't at least drill the support pilings down into bedrock for that building. It's a prime example of the importance of doing something right the first time, not trying to fix it later.
@spankyharland98455 ай бұрын
this is what happens when they build a heavy skyscraper on sand. If you look at maps of San Francisco back in the 1800's that area use to be a watery bay swamp.
@rafael_lana5 ай бұрын
Except there is taller buildings literally across the street that are fine. We know how to build things on bad soil, the problem here was greedy cost cutting to deliver the minimal viable product. Had they built a deeper, proper, pricier foundation nothing would've happened.
@willisbarth5 ай бұрын
@@rafael_lana the building that went mud surfing,
@poodlescone97005 ай бұрын
Sand is not the problem. It is the building on a free floating slab foundation instead of being anchored to the bedrock with piles.
@erikanders33435 ай бұрын
its not sand, its landfill. everything from two blocks west of this building to the waterfront is all landfill and build up from the 1800's and early 1900's.
@Rightly_Divided5 ай бұрын
Matthew 7:24-27 King James Version 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. Old knowledge
@satyricon655 ай бұрын
Gravity doesn't sleep. SF is fighting a losing battle.
@stevenjuranovich29715 ай бұрын
It can be “Re-imagined” into the Leaning Tower of Feces😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@animejanai46575 ай бұрын
The sewer and water pipes to the tower must be under great strain as the tower moves. Maybe future news about a sewer or water line leak will be the signal that sinking is continuing.
@lynsylva-bb6ss5 ай бұрын
🤣😂🤣
@boombasett60385 ай бұрын
You couldn't pay me enough to live that high up ! No way.
@Jude745 ай бұрын
The building needs to be deconstructed. The majority of reputable engineers have said the same thing.
@mortyrosenstein42115 ай бұрын
Let’s be real. We all know how this ends. No one is going to take responsibility and do the right thing here because it’s too expensive and possibly too late. The only solution is somehow redoing the foundation and driving pilings to bedrock. Considering there is now a building on the foundation, the cost would be very high. So instead, no one is going to do anything as everyone blames each other. There is 2 possible outcomes here. The building collapses and everyone rushes to avoid blame and make the claim that it was impossible to see this coming. The building tilts so much that living in it becomes impossible no matter what they attempt. And then once it’s condemned, no one takes responsibility for cleaning it up, and it eventually falls over. Either way, the outcome will be the same. That building is gonna collapse someday and every singly person involved will claim how shocked and surprised they are, and that it’s not their fault.
@Surfclub235 ай бұрын
We call it the American way. Now go give more money to Israel
@mikeifyouplease5 ай бұрын
The largest, slowest down elevator in San Francisco.
@OublietteTight5 ай бұрын
Hahaha
@mikehagmaier39495 ай бұрын
That’s a good one
@naekosl30595 ай бұрын
Does Millenium Tower still have its earthquake safety rating? At what point will it need to be re-qualified? Or is the city not daring to touch that issue with the cracked foundation?
@elizabethwitt26215 ай бұрын
The duct tape should have fixed that, so no need to worry. All good here.
@anderander56625 ай бұрын
Most luxurious and expensive too
@forexed89485 ай бұрын
This is a disaster waiting to happen San Fran, deal with it before the tower causes a domino effect, and needless loss of life
@ahuras2385 ай бұрын
i think too much bribe money already exchanged hands to do the right thing
@erikanders33435 ай бұрын
@@ahuras238 no bribe, this design was allowed because it was on the builders head to make a quality building and the investors to insist on it. pure capitalism is to blame here
@emafrancisco18084 ай бұрын
It can take more lives than 9/11?
@forexed89484 ай бұрын
What do you think happens when a tall sky scraper falls onto another building?@@emafrancisco1808
@erikanders33434 ай бұрын
@@emafrancisco1808 not likely; there are 419 residential units, but 53 of those units in the smaller tower... so lets say 2 people per, but most are empty. so thats 732 people total. What happens it it falls? It will impact a mostly vacant Sales force auxiliary building that is 24 stores tall. Lets say its a big week and people are in their offices on an RTO office day (most people come into the office once or twice a week max in SF)... so say 1000 people may be in the building tops, perhaps 50% fatality rate to be generous. You are looking at 1200 is people tops, far below the 2,977 victims
@grammadee945 ай бұрын
There's NO WAY I'd be anywhere near that building.
@Ronydoo-yv2hs5 ай бұрын
This is an embarrassing way of construction. There is no way to save it. San Francisco is gonna get a rude awakening.
@NextNate035 ай бұрын
They are the 1s who owns the tower? 😂
@Ronydoo-yv2hs5 ай бұрын
@NextNate03 man, you seem less intelligent. It's in San francisco, Duh!!! The city always inspects every building for safety. They missed out on this from the beginning. 🙄🤦♂️ no wonder the city is on decline. There's dummies running it.
@Ronydoo-yv2hs5 ай бұрын
@NextNate03 they built it there. They should have known. But the city is full of dumb people around.
@JohnD-JohnD5 ай бұрын
I feel bad for anyone who bought property in that building. Get out while you can.
@kenmoreSF5 ай бұрын
why feel bad? They are millionaires and they're probably doing ok.
@JohnD-JohnD5 ай бұрын
@@kenmoreSF You don't know if they are millionaires or not. Also, why would that exclude them from having the same struggles as everyone else?
@jpstairs5 ай бұрын
Ron Hamburger sounds like a real stand up guy
@PaulAllen7865 ай бұрын
😂 I am so confused how that is a real last name.
@jpstairs5 ай бұрын
das boot@@PaulAllen786
@Retrovorious5 ай бұрын
@@PaulAllen786Hamburg is a town in Germany, maybe he’s from there. The town is where we got the name for the sandwich.
@hypsyzygy5065 ай бұрын
Hamburger is out of his depth.
@davidyoung161020 күн бұрын
@@PaulAllen786 Imagine if his middle name was McDonald.
@paulsz61945 ай бұрын
0:56 : " that projection was overly optimistic " is a nicer way of saying " we got it wrong"…🤣
@fixedit86895 ай бұрын
Some officials and inspectors are sweating
@juju-xx5xn5 ай бұрын
Big time.
@MiC-T5 ай бұрын
It's not sinking, it's settling. Just call it something different and it's ok.
@mdmoz17775 ай бұрын
Sounds like a local .gov policy.
@bartonpercival32165 ай бұрын
Yup, don't call them homeless, call them un-housed!!!! 😱😱😱
@erikanders33435 ай бұрын
@@bartonpercival3216 no there is a reason for the two terms. Unhoused is anyone who does not have permanent residence, so those couch surfing, RV living or staying in motels or hotels long term. Homeless are those without any shelter or who are sleeping rough.
@OublietteTight5 ай бұрын
Joke.... if only semantics could solve the problem? 😮
@erikanders33435 ай бұрын
@@OublietteTight its not semantics ... do you know what that word actually means? Its literally a different word for the different scope of an issue. The homeless are a subset of the large unhoused. If you can't define the issue then you can't actually address it.
@yourmumsy10815 ай бұрын
this tower is gonna fall someday
@Cravatron5 ай бұрын
arent all?
@johnsonwellmcd32235 ай бұрын
This one sooner@@Cravatron
@susangreene96625 ай бұрын
And take others with it. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it.
@Crismodin5 ай бұрын
Just hire a specialized Japanese company that can dissassemble the building safely.
@sclogse15 ай бұрын
Just.
@Crismodin5 ай бұрын
@@sclogse1 k
@emptiester5 ай бұрын
Who exactly is doing that hiring?
@Crismodin5 ай бұрын
@@emptiester Well, I can assure you the owners of the building don't want to hire anyone to do that. They'd rather play games for the next 1-40 years until the building is condemned and then I imagine it will sit vacant until a new owner can be found if ever and then to answer this question - no one will do that hiring because in this country we don't believe in safety. We believe in money. Best case scenario, the city takes the building via legal route and then pays for the deconstruction of the entire building. The alternative is that someone, eventually the city, will foot the bill for massive repairs that will not be sustainable and we'll probably just end up at the exact same conclusion except with a much larger price tag to boot. Good luck trying to get the public to understand these concepts, they only care about the now, they don't care who has to deal with it in the future just as long as it's not them but don't worry - they'll be complaining the entire time no matter what.
@susangreene96625 ай бұрын
One of my nephews is a deconstruction expert.
@specterman20005 ай бұрын
Millennium Tower?!!! Well it's been a short thousand years!
@dougtaylor77245 ай бұрын
Things designed to last a thousand years rarely do. Ask a dude name Adolf.
@lynsylva-bb6ss5 ай бұрын
🤣😂🤣😂
@thegoldengatesound5 ай бұрын
Structures built on fill-over-Bay mud often settle more, sometimes faster, than other soil types. Underpinning one side only stabilizes that immediate side (FD) especially if they created new point loads like he’s saying. I played an geotechnical engineer in my highschool play 100 years ago trust me I know what I’m talking about What a disaster
@jimarcher52555 ай бұрын
Actually you seem more qualified than the engineers of record.
@ScribblyPoppo5 ай бұрын
You're 118! I played a mathematician in a high school play in 1776.
@Denastus5 ай бұрын
@@ScribblyPoppo😂😂😂
@paulc64715 ай бұрын
This represents San Francisco so well
@tonymanero55445 ай бұрын
True. Just like the East Palestine Ohio train wreck represents MAGA and Ohio State Government.
@Indomitablespirit1085 ай бұрын
The great thing is nothing will happen to the shady developers! No accountability is what makes America Great!
@mikeprice41035 ай бұрын
Not in doni's case!
@TheIHVPNetwork5 ай бұрын
VERY Good point! I'll add this insight to my pile of letters to legislators. Every now & then in the commentary section, the truth comes out, but those that really need to "hear it" isn't paying attention, nor care. I do. Thank you!
@robertmartin78905 ай бұрын
So true!
@elizabethwitt26215 ай бұрын
Yep, just ask Trump.
@joncozzi17015 ай бұрын
Wow,! This is going really well.
@markaruski5 ай бұрын
Next, on an all-new "Engineering Disasters"!
@elizabethwitt26215 ай бұрын
🤣🤣 Sad, funny and true.
@lynsylva-bb6ss5 ай бұрын
🤣😂🤣
@roachtoasties5 ай бұрын
I don't know how this will end up, but I would have had more faith in Ronald McDonald than in Ronald Hamburger, in designing a solution to this.
@VitalityMassage5 ай бұрын
Lean on me. When you're not strong...
@lynsylva-bb6ss5 ай бұрын
🤣😂🤣
@edp22605 ай бұрын
Their chief engineer's name is 'Hamburger'. I rest my case.
@ryanporter18195 ай бұрын
😂
@Smart-Towel-RG-4005 ай бұрын
Ron hamburger at that
@michaelhaidee5 ай бұрын
Duct tape and some hot glue will fix it...
@findingmo70495 ай бұрын
Are the residents trying to get out and sell their apartments at a loss? Will the landlord have difficulty finding office tenants?. Do the elevators also lean to the left by 29 inches? The bathrooms too? So many questions!
@ahuras2385 ай бұрын
I think last year the tenants were complaining about the water/sewer lines getting messed up by the tilt and causing overflows.
@OublietteTight5 ай бұрын
Well shit! Hahaha Picturing toilets and tubs leaning. Can they market them as infinity pools?
@DemPilafian5 ай бұрын
Landlord? Ha. Ha. That's *NOT* an apartment building. Those are condos.
@findingmo70495 ай бұрын
@@DemPilafianI didn’t know it’s 100% condos. Many buildings have a business tenants on some floors.
@BrokeDadProductions5 ай бұрын
People are still purchasing….. Over the last 180 days, 6 Condos have been reported as sold in MILLENNIUM TOWER SAN FRANCISCO. Final sale price ranged from $558,000 up to $4,000,000 pending possible revisions. The median sale price was $1,200,000 with a median Price Per Square Foot of $811. With currently 12 active listings, the absorption rate for this community is approximately 12 months of inventory. More than four months supply of Condos for sale means it's a buyers market and some sellers may be motivated.
@Chuck1284-5 ай бұрын
I imagine Ron Hamburger is having trouble finding work in his field of endeavor, when you're a structural engineer that screws up a $100M+ high rise 3-4 times the phone will stop ringing.
@berkeleyfuller-lewis34425 ай бұрын
Yep, his career is "hamburger."
@elizabethwitt26215 ай бұрын
One would think, but he's probably got plenty of work.
@georgiaguardian46965 ай бұрын
It’s simply too HEAVY!
@InCountry69704 ай бұрын
The original design was for a steel structure and then after the current foundation was finished, the designer/owner changed it to a concrete building, which weighs almost twice as much. A concrete building is cheaper than a steel structure. That was their first step toward this problem
@larrydanadavid24355 ай бұрын
No matter which way you lean on this situation, it’s a tipping point.
@johngarbarini10485 ай бұрын
Plus, the average annual costs of owning an apt. in the building is $50K, when you add in Common fees and property taxes. Get out while you can!
@LoveClassicMusic02055 ай бұрын
The only way to get out is to walk away and turn it over to the bank.
@elizabethwitt26215 ай бұрын
@@LoveClassicMusic0205For real. It's worthless.
@charleslanphier80945 ай бұрын
Whether it's a little one story house or a giant skyscraper the fundamentals of weight transfer and keeping water out remain essentially the same.
@elmolewis91235 ай бұрын
If his parents of the Structural Engineer would have had a sense of humor, they would have named him Chuck.
@Knucklehead44005 ай бұрын
2/25/24 internet winner of the month
@gavincurtis5 ай бұрын
On the next “Seconds from Disaster”…
@BakedRBeans5 ай бұрын
"Fascinating Horror" will do it first.
@Riskmangler5 ай бұрын
The Millennium Tower is the perfect metaphor for San Francisco: Built on shaky ground and sinking under its own importance.
@erikanders33435 ай бұрын
its sinking because builders choose quick and unsafe over doing quality work.
@sclogse15 ай бұрын
Sorry your town never had the class S.F. has. Remember, Oakland bred the crime that comes here. And the homeless aren't from San Francisco.
@emptiester5 ай бұрын
@@sclogse1i remember in 1990 when people thought los angeles was cool.
@leemi-cha32295 ай бұрын
My sister sent me a link to this video. She had the thought, “This can’t be tofu dreg. This isn’t China, it’s America!” Then… “It’s Hamburger dreg!” Irony intended
@lynsylva-bb6ss5 ай бұрын
😂🤣😂
@ScribblyPoppo5 ай бұрын
When you hire a guy named Hamburger to fix the problem...
@LotsofStuffYT5 ай бұрын
What happens to a leaning building during a 7+ earthquake?
@Truckngirl5 ай бұрын
This is the gift that keeps on giving!
@ricco09115 ай бұрын
That building is living the mantra of San Francisco. It’s all sinking into oblivion.
@BCSchmerker5 ай бұрын
+NBCBayAreaNews *Thanks for the heads up on an architectural problem.* Specifically, dishing in the foundation.
@BCSchmerker5 ай бұрын
*Addition:* The Millennium Tower is a candidate for telescoping the next exceptional quake on the San Andreas (a strike-slip fault), or any thrust fault intercepting the San Andreas within 200 km.
@tehallanaz5 ай бұрын
Somehow i remember some old guy saying this would happen
@hypsyzygy5065 ай бұрын
Isn't it mentioned in the Bible?
@oneone50285 ай бұрын
Sounds like a metaphor for the city of San Francisco itself
@Dbodell80005 ай бұрын
The left is sinking the world.
@malama_ka_aina5 ай бұрын
The disclosures for anyone buying a condo in this tower must be interesting to say the least
@jlacson745 ай бұрын
Shim it up.
@brianjones76608 күн бұрын
tower putty....
@ShaneMorris19865 ай бұрын
I’m not worried about it unless an earthquake happens. Does SF get many of those?
@mplsmark2225 ай бұрын
I don’t know, I’ve never heard of anything like that happening.😊
@juju-xx5xn5 ай бұрын
The Great San Francisco Earthquake in 1906. Magnitude 7.7 - 7.9. Destroyed the city. Google it. Catastrophic. The city is right next to the San Andreas Fault.
@sclogse15 ай бұрын
Not many. It's been a pretty quiet 118 years.
@andytran16035 ай бұрын
@@sclogse1 have you forgotten about the 1989 earthquake?
@BL-yj2wp5 ай бұрын
@@andytran1603 Which means the next big one is probably a couple decades away, they might come to their senses and tear this building down before that … might.
@ThatOpalGuy5 ай бұрын
Sinking in the Middle..sounds like a good FOX sitcom.
@pavelromanenko37185 ай бұрын
This is a concern for all of California where housing "experts" are arguing we need to build up instead of building in green field spaces.
@jeffreybryan55915 ай бұрын
Just do it right and STOP BEING GREEDY EVERYBODY!
@tomservo50075 ай бұрын
long time ago, the engineer and whoever approved this would have been jailed
@User5_5 ай бұрын
Fitting for the city
@SoundofSilence4925 ай бұрын
Yes. My dream city of the 80s, the one I would’ve given anything to have been able to move to. Now in such disrepair, I won’t even visit.
@bryede12 күн бұрын
The building could be leaning at 45 degrees and Ron Hamburger would be telling us how much better half the residents can now see the sky.
@HamalaKarris20245 ай бұрын
If San Francisco was a building.
@lynsylva-bb6ss5 ай бұрын
That's good!! 😂🤣
@Glowsaphinebaker5 ай бұрын
Who knew KZfaq had so many architects and engineers
@2TROLL15 ай бұрын
What way was the wind blowing when they did that last measurement of the building tilt
@dougtaylor77245 ай бұрын
Most ignored ad in California: For Sale-Millennium Tower Space
@larrysorenson478914 сағат бұрын
I love all the “experts” pontificating from a leather chair while completely free from any possible litigation or penalties. Did you ever think that this “expert” might be pissed because he was not hired to help?
@chrismaggio78795 ай бұрын
It's time for some Flex Seal tape!
@lynsylva-bb6ss5 ай бұрын
That shit don't work, I tried it!!
@chrismaggio78795 ай бұрын
But he says it works on TV! So since they can't lie when advertising a product it MUST work! Gotta go, QVC is having a sale on a lock of Yul Brenner's hair.@@lynsylva-bb6ss
@shubhashishagarwal1355 ай бұрын
Yay !!! Why I am not surprised !!! This tower is now so news-worthy
@ashishpatel3505 ай бұрын
The soil is not acting like it was predicted? Has sf thought about taxing the soil? 😂
@you2angel15 ай бұрын
I have more respect for abandoned building that was flawed to begin with & left unfinished than have a finished bulding that wasn't abandoned when it should have been. °~•.☆.•~°