People Missing After "Pancake Collapse" at Watergate Complex Parking Garage
Source: NBC
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser confirms that some people are missing following a three-story collapse at a Watergate complex parking garage Friday morning.
"Not everyone is accounted for," she said.
The "pancake collapse" at the garage has also injured at least one person and crushed at least one vehicle Friday morning.
Three stories of the garage apparently collapsed, said D.C. Fire & EMS spokesman Oscar Mendez. Firefighters were called to the scene just after 10 a.m. Friday.
Read more: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Crews-Responding-to-Watergate-for-Report-of-Collapse-302150191.html
brooklynite
(94,745 posts)When 50 other people have said the same thing, your insurance company tends to believe you...
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)Garage pancakes...
Calista241
(5,586 posts)I lol'd.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)I just saw the words "garage pancake" in the above reply, and this is what came to mind.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)same here- but I had pancakes for breakfast
MADem
(135,425 posts)malthaussen
(17,217 posts)Ought to be a national historic landmark.
-- Mal
brooklynite
(94,745 posts)malthaussen
(17,217 posts)Many of the details escape me after 40-odd years.
-- Mal
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,621 posts)The garage is in the Rosslyn part of Arlington, a few blocks from the Metro stop. I've been to the spot. It's really creepy, even in the middle of the day.
The "Deep Throat" Parking Garage
Historical Marker Installed Outside Deep Throat Garage
There are or were plans to replace the garage with a new office building.
Saviolo
(3,283 posts)If there's a coverup as to the cause of the collapse, what could they possibly call it?
Watergategate?
-- Mal
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Yes, when a garage pancakes, people will go missing... Sigh.
Archae
(46,354 posts)Because buildings and concrete never fall down without demolition charges...
Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)There will still be fires burning there six weeks from now. I'm sure a few weeks from now the temperature readings will still exceed 1000 degrees. Notice the girders that flew out and got imbedded in the surrounding buildings, and the I-beams twisted like a pretzel, and all the charred vehicles. Happens every time.
ananda
(28,877 posts)It was under construction.
http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Structure-in-Watergate-garage-collapses-report-6235996.php
Demeter
(85,373 posts)maybe a name change?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Shocking, eh?
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Was anyone seen naked in the area?
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)all-you-can-eat at IHOP, but you eat MORE THAN you can eat, you might get weak in the knees and suffer a "Pancake Collapse".
And also,
"Pancake Collapse"
"Pancake Collapse"
"Pancake Collapse"
What? You guys didn't get the memo?
question everything
(47,537 posts)I remember when several apartment buildings "pancake collapsed" during the 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles. Many died in their beds.
This is a common term.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I think it is just a bit of a self defense mechanism.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I was in that '89 San Francisco area quake and the Bay Bridge and Cypress freeway collapses really got to me. I just barely avoided being on the bridge during the quake. I remember the guy who was buried alive for days and days on the Cypress ...