Lowest story. You are standing there and someone knocks your knees out and you fall down. Thats what can happen to soft story buildings. I think a lot of us dont pay enough attention to the nonstructural damage. Here we are in this room, nonstructural damage can be to the sealing, so heres a story. In the 1989 earthquake, thats the day the Marriott Hotel opened. It has that little bar at the top. Up at the top of building, it swayed back and forth and the ceiling planes shaved off a sprinkler and it flooded the top floor. Its a big problem. In north ridge, it was a huge problem. There was tremendous losses because your shoot rock gets wet. Its like having a flood. We are on a group trying to look at all the issue in San Francisco and make recommendations. Whether it responds and does well. The subsequent issue is fire, which we havent talked about here. With fire goes gas line breaks and water line breaks not being able to protect the structure once it happens. All those utility things
Individual lot . One is these lines are very clearly defined as boundaries. They dont actually mean, this is the exact edge. You could be on one side or the other. Its not okay here and not okay 10 feet away. But, on the other hand, we have taken this map, which was published by the state and digitized it so if any portion lies within these zones. If you tell me your address, i can tell you whether you lie it in. Theres a book. 5586205 and the clerk or me will take the book and look it up and say, yes, you lie within a particular zone i am the manager of a large condo minnium project. It was built in 1963. Its steel and concrete theres a difference between structural steel and rebarb. Its steel columns. Thank you goodness. 19 stories and i live across the street in a building that was built i believe in 1920 and i brought my staff here because we want to, as a team, be prepared with our building and the owners who live there. So her question is, how can someone find out what they shoul
Situation in egypt. What role, if any, should america apply . America play . Yourus a tweet or post comments. You can email us. Inside usa today here is what the white house spokesman had to say yesterday about the situation in egypt. Many of the papers noting this morning that the spokesman was very careful not to use the word coup. Take a look. But they began by saying that the United States remains deeply concerned by the violence across egypt and the dangerous level of political polarization. We strongly condemn any violence and any incitement to violence. We express condolences to those that ive been killed and their families and hope that those are wounded or have been wounded recovered recover quickly. We call on the military to use maximum restraint. Also condemn the explicit calls to violence made by the Muslim Brotherhood. During this transition time egypts stability and Democratic Political order are at stake. Egypt will not be able to emerge from the crisis unless the peopl
Them. Basically, if your building was built before early 70s. Its likely to have some earthquake resistance and resilience of the cost of construction. It wasnt specifically designed to with with stand and earthquake. Most of the sun stream homes. These are track homes, mostly built to speck homes. Built the way they always built. They have a degree of earthquake resistance. They have a tendency to pound together and the buildings in the middle survive because the earthquake isnt long enough. The individual at the end of the block is like the book at the end of shelf. They fall over and the next one falls over. In the marina. We saw corner believes collapse. There are 2 ways to look at earthquakes. I think each one of us wants to know how our house, where we live is going to perform. We also need to look at how the city is going to perform. Pat makes a good point, most the newer buildings will perform better. Keep in mind, the studies we have done certainly show is that most the vulner
Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as onesixth of the economy itself. I think there are a few things we have going on of particular interest though. One of those is wireless communications. And you can look around at the proliferation of phones, and thats probably no surprise be that its an area of real interest. But with you also have to consider some of the numbers. We now have more Wireless Phones in this country than we have people. One in three American Adults now has a tablet com