WHAT? BBC REPORTS BUILDING COLLAPSE IN DOWNTOWN ;MANHATTAN?

[redacted]

WHICH BUILDING? THEY JUST SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHRYSLER BUILDING. . .WHAT HAPPENED?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. Transformer Exploded.

And no, not that type of transformer.

Says two people injured.

[Parche]

18. Transformer Exploded

[piedmont]

2. It's on MSNBC.com too.

[C_U_L8R]

3. I can see the Chrysler Building ... it's still there.

reportedly a transformer explosion.. big and scary events but not terrorism

[slackmaster]

6. Thanks, I love the Chrysler Building

:nuke:

The Chrysler Building would be VERY hard to bring down. It has about triple the steel of a modern building of comparable size.

[C_U_L8R]

17. And..

from where I am (Houston and 2nd Ave) the smoke/steam
looks several blocks to the left (west) of the Chrysler Bldg.
By all reports, closer to Grand Central.

There seems to be a big transformer fire/explosion here
every couple of years.. especially during hot weather.
Nasty scary stuff.

[mikelgb]

4. fire?

[Cornus]

5. Underground explosion

Local news is reporting some sort of explosion between 3rd and Lex on 41st St....four alarm.

[peacebird]

7. abc local - transformer blew - link here

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5489428

[originalpckelly]

9. Others are saying it was a steam explosion.

The steam go boom.

[musette_sf]

20. we had one of these in downtown SF

a few years ago. i worked across the street.

as a New Yorker, i am not sure whether i am proud or ashamed to admit that as soon as i heard the explosion, i grabbed my stuff and ran to BART. i wasn't waiting around for the next shoe to drop, for BART to be shut down, etc etc etc.

turned out to be mostly property damage and only several people were hurt. thank the Goddess. NYC in that area is much more dense than where the explosion occurred in SF, so i do hope that as few ppl got hurt as possible.

update from MSNBC: 2 ppl hurt and some property damage. sounds about identical to the SF injured toll.

[redacted]

8. OK, no building collapse? That IS what BBC is reporting. . .

[redacted]

12. Geez, which building collapsed? 43rd at Lexington?

[slackmaster]

13. Todays adult generation in the UK grew on TV shows like Danger UXB

Which was actually pretty good, but culturally they are a bit jumpy.

[redacted]

14. What are you talking about? I'm in San Francisco.

What are you getting at?

[slackmaster]

19. "OK, no building collapse? That IS what BBC is reporting. . ."

The reply to which I replied.

Or is the BBC reporting this from their San Francisco bureau?

[redacted]

21. What is with you Slack? I have it on my computer. Now can we get back to the story?

[slackmaster]

24. You have a report from the BBC on your computer

What's hard to understand about my comment about the British?

[redacted]

25. What does it have to do with anything?

[slackmaster]

27. I don't have any problem understanding what I wrote

It's like the Brits to prematurely report a collapsed building when there is no collapsed building.

[cal04]

10. watching it now on my local news

no confirmation of a building collapse yet
43rd and Lexington

[stellanoir]

11. the chrysler building is one of the most magestic deco structures in NYC

May no harm ever befall that structure.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

16. Damn right, that's my favorite building in NY

Once I had a hotel room with a perfect view of it. I love that building.

[marmar]

15. When I lived in New York, I always wondered about the masses.....

of aging power lines and subway tunnels and phone lines and sewers that are under the crowded streets of Manhattan.....

I'm actually surprised this kind of thing doesn't happen more often.

[supernova]

22. Not a byte on the BBC web site

:shrug:

[redacted]

23. I'm watching live video from BBC News 24

[slackmaster]

28. Are you sure you're not watching video of the Sao Paolo plane crash?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6905499.stm

[liberal N proud]

26. ABC says four alarm fire, underground steam pipe explosion

Think of the scare mileage they will get out of this one?