It was snowing this morning and yikes! I saw seven accidents in a 30-mile strip today. One, I even saw it happen. This pickup truck just spun out on I-170, smashing into the concrete barrier, and dumping a bunch of stuff from the bed onto the highway, including some sort of machine. Yikes. And I also saw this Camaro that suffered a head-on collision with a Ford truck. The Camaro was totaled. The front end was just simply gone. THe passenger cabin was totally intact, though. Cars are amazing. There were so many million pieces of the car all over the highway... it was like it rained metal or something.
Wow:
BEIJING (Reuters) - Scores of people were believed dead on Saturday after a shopping mall in southern China collapsed into a heap of rubble while construction workers were illegally adding extra stories.
"There was a loud rumbling sound and I thought it was an earthquake. But within seconds, the whole building just crumbled before my eyes," one witness told Hong Kong cable television.
"Most of the dead bodies have been found and removed," said a city official who refused to say how many bodies had been extracted by the time rescue work was halted at what had been a one-Storey mall to which builders were adding two more floors.
Witnesses said a crack appeared in the mall, an hour's drive from Hong Kong, before it collapsed.
The mall collapsed shortly after a heavy truck rumbled past it, she said.
Web Site www.sina.com.cn quoted a mall shopkeeper surnamed Liu as saying he had told the contractor several days ago that the floor of the building was sinking, but had been ignored.
The shopkeeper and his wife fled shortly before the collapse when the floor sank further and water appeared, the Web site said.
It said the mall had been built over a drainage ditch which had been cemented over.
Friday, 1st of December, 2000