Explosion in NYC
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- pango0
Everyone of you ok right?
- would they be on here if they werent?CygnusZero4
- Personally, I'm going to check in with all my QBN peeps from my death bed. ;)GM278
- ^ yep. lol
btw, pango i'm doing great, thanks for asking. ;) hope my NY peeps are safe as well.sea_sea - The thought is some of you might know someone caught in there.pango
- I know Pango, appreciate it. Just needed to interject a bit of humor. It's my go-to defense mechanism in times like this.GM278
- GM2780
- My heart goes out to those who were affected.GM278
- insane and terrible.lvl_13
- leveled 3 buildings?bklyndroobeki
- American infrastructures are collapsing in and around every city. (roads, bridges, building, sewer, gas, water, etc...)utopian
- on a positive note, think of what can be built it its place plus force all buildings in the city to be brought up to a new, safer code._niko
- but nobody died did they?_niko
- utopian0
America's Infrastructure Is Slowly Falling Apart
America is literally falling apart around us. Roads, built decades ago, are littered with potholes from carrying ten times the number of cars they were designed to carry. Crumbling Cold War–era gas pipes are exploding. One in nine of the country's bridges is structurally deficient. And some dam or levee is always just one rainstorm away from wiping out a neighborhood.
- In New York, it's things older than the Cold War. Much of the major infrastructure was built during the turn of the last century.CyBrainX
- don't forget the exploding manholes.bklyndroobeki
- GM2780
Plumbing and gas work appears to have been done without a permit at a restaurant on the ground floor of one of the buildings.
This is not a result of a crumbling infrastructure. Its a symptom of greed, shoddy workmanship and cost cutting. If you're a licensed contractor in NYC who provides health insurance for the skilled and qualified labor you hire, you will never get any work. These jobs are given to the lowest bidders who then hire cheap labor without any qualifications whatsoever.
Per DNAinfo:
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office and other agencies are investigating whether contractor Dilber Kukic, 39, played a role in the blast that started at 121 Second Ave., sources said.
Kukic — whose construction firm performed work at the address in the past — was already under the scrutiny of Manhattan prosecutors in an unrelated case. He was arrested last month for an alleged role in a widespread bribery scandal involving city inspectors.
- bklyndroobeki0
LES Ready, http://lesready.org/
and Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) is helping out; donate to them if you can.
- utopian3
- they are tourists.bklyndroobeki
- So stagedBusterBoy
- fvcking poletardsWeyland
- But it's ok for the NYPost to buy a photo for the cover that is equally disrespectful of the event in order to sell papers?nb
- shoppedpablo28
- Shopped and this shit rag is far more disgraceful than this photo and on a daily basis.CyBrainX
- Not shoppped
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