Now-deleted tweet, via Digby:
Still up, from an hour ago:
Actual conditions in Miami:
Wanna bet she’s nowhere near Florida right now?
If there’s any justice her house will be leveled — with her in it!
The desperately irrelevant desperately trying to be relevant.
Bet she took off before the storm on her broom…
Or hitched a ride with a lardy, loud-mouthed wannabe macho man in his Gulfstream IV.
Unfortunately, it was grounded so they’re waiting for stand-by seating on Delta.
Very sensitive. No mention of the climate-change hoax.
Naw. He bailed.
“May as well … announce this. I’m not going to get into the details because of the security nature of things, but it turns out that we will not be able to do the program here tomorrow,” Limbaugh said Thursday on his radio show, which is broadcast from a studio in South Florida.
“Tomorrow is going to be problematic,” Limbaugh said. “Tomorrow, I think, would be legally impossible to originate the show from here.”
Legally impossible? What bullshit.
He added that he’ll be back on the air next week from “parts unknown.” Mark Steyn filled in Friday.
Rush Limbaugh Leaves Florida After Blasting Hurricane Irma Coverage - Business Insider
Even money says he flew up to either Cape Girardeau, Missouri or New York City to hide out. We’ll know tomorrow when everyone starts heaping scorn on him for being such a pussy.
How would manure shoveling be “legally impossible”?
The city has contacted the contractor and has contacted the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, which will lead the investigation,
Alfonso said.
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Pretty simple really:
It was a hurricane
Thanks, I needed that chuckle.
Gee, no mention of the builders putting the kibosh on regulations regarding their cranes…
Oh I know an essay you should read. Or maybe not, it is very NSFW. But it is a classic from 2005.
Stupid question for engineers: couldn’t one lash the cranes to the top stories of buildings under construction and thereby minimize any collateral damage? Obviously the new building would take minimal? damage, but much less so than the alternative.
Was Anne Coulter or Flush Limbaugh under one of them?
Just wishful thinking.
I can’t assure you that my explanation is correct, but I would guess that you can’t attach cables in a manner that would support the forces that the crane can’t handle.
Cranes can lift great weights in spite of their delicate-appearing structure, because they are designed to direct loads along a very specific paths and to bear heavy loads along those paths. The structure is not designed to handle much load from other directions.
Using cables from the crane to the building to anchor the crane is a problem due to the downward angles of the cables. The cables would have to be attached multiple points on the crane to ensure that the cables are taking loads that the crane can handle. However, cables would be running down at an angle would put a substantial downward force on the crane at the attachment points. The steeper the angle, the more downward force there would be in order to resist the more horizontal wind loads. It might be impossible or impractical to support the crane against destructive wind loads without creating destructive cable loads. It might also be that there would not be suitably strong attachment points on the buildings.