If a butterfly flaps its wings in Beijing and a plane falls out of the sky in New York, who is sneezing where, to make multi-storey buildings collapse?

First there was the notorious 13-floor Lotus Riverside apartment building in Minhang, Shanghai, China, that fell over, fortunately before it was occupied. The foundation of the building was being excavated to make way for a garage.

The business of the developers of the building have been closed down, while the government investigates the mater. Prospective home owners are now demonstrating against the unfair payout they have received.

Now the No. 9 building complex of Zhongxiang Longbowan residential area in Minhang, has been slowly sinking for the past month. The back of the building has risen around 2.5 cm while the rest of the building has sunk downwards almost 10 cm, an increase of 6 cm in just one month.

People are still living in the building. Even though it has been reported to the authorities, no one appears to be doing anything to deal with the problem.

Now a five storied building has toppled into the raging flooded river in Taitung country. This is in the wake of the deadly Typhoon Morakot, which hit Taiwan, causing a mudslide that buried an entire village, while the inhabitants slept. There are around 4 - 600 people still missing.  “A part of the mountain above us just fell on the village,” said one shocked survivor.

Taiwan is experiencing the worst flooding in half a century, after Typhoon Morakot dumped up to 80 inches of rain over the weekend. The waves reached heights of 26 feet and more than 2,000 houses have collapsed.

Typhoon Morakot swept on into China, causing the evacuation of nearly 1 million people. Five apartment buildings have collapsed in China.

Typhoon Morakot killed 22 people in the Philippines.

Further north Japan was slammed with Tyhpoon Etau, killing 12 people, with 10 still missing.

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One Response to “Atishoo We All Fall Down”

1. dropjack.com Says:
   August 11th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

   Atishoo We All Fall Down…

   Five storied building topples in to flooded river in Taiwan, following Typhoon Morakot. When multi storied buildings start to fall down, you have to wonder just where is it safe to live?…

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