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Hard Rock Hotel collapses. Breaking!!!!! (Original Post) Cattledog Oct 2019 OP
It was under construction, not occupied. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2019 #1
How the hell does this happen? IcyPeas Oct 2019 #2
Gravity. yortsed snacilbuper Oct 2019 #5
July 81 Kasas City hotel 2 walkways collapse, kill 114, injure over 200 bobbieinok Oct 2019 #3
AP: New Orleans hotel collapse leaves one dead and three missing Eugene Oct 2019 #4

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,862 posts)
1. It was under construction, not occupied.
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 01:46 PM
Oct 2019

Latest report indicates one dead, three missing, 18 taken to hospital.

IcyPeas

(21,893 posts)
2. How the hell does this happen?
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 01:54 PM
Oct 2019

they said on the news one of those giant yellow cranes is tilting and is being held up by rubble.

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
3. July 81 Kasas City hotel 2 walkways collapse, kill 114, injure over 200
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 02:07 PM
Oct 2019

Your post immediately reminded me of that disaster.

Watched news reports.

Eugene

(61,903 posts)
4. AP: New Orleans hotel collapse leaves one dead and three missing
Sat Oct 12, 2019, 03:01 PM
Oct 2019
New Orleans hotel collapse leaves one dead and three missing

Associated Press in New Orleans
Sat 12 Oct 2019 19.02 BST

A Hard Rock hotel under construction at the edge of New Orleans’ historic French Quarter collapsed on Saturday morning, leaving at least one person dead and three unaccounted for, authorities said.

City officials and Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards confirmed the death.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/12/new-orleans-hotel-collapse-leave-one-dead
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