Check out this article and video on a hotel collapse in Taiwan. Fortunately the 300 people within escaped prior to the building collapse so no one was hurt. I tried to imagine what it would feel like to be rushed out into a typhoon with all my stuff probably still in the hotel. The fantasy was not at all pleasant.
After this collapse was shown, there was a video and article about a demolition 'gone wrong.' Someone must have had an audible 'oops' over that one.
Living in New England there are lots of jokes made about the weather but we are pretty fortunate not to have many real disasters any where close to the magnitude of those in the Pacific and Asia. Typhoons seem to do much more damage in these areas than hurricanes do to the US Eastern and Southern coast.
While complaining is a sport in which too many people indulge, somewhere some of us need to sit back and say that maybe huge heating bills and shoveling snow is not really so bad, after all.
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