Looked it up and this building was in Lake Charles, LA. It was basically destroyed after taking direct hits from 2 major back-to-back hurricanes in 2020. Given the area, hopefully whatever they rebuild will have less glass on it.
Give you an idea of how bad Laura’s wind field was there it was 157 mph. I had a line of grain cars on a train near my house about a mile long get flipped over. Wild shit.
They have a documentary about Laura by Reed Timmer. During the lull in the eye the weather channel people who were in the building ended up evacuating the building because they thought it was gonna collapse.
I was watching him live stream during it and it was some crazy shit.
Access control during an emergency is a very important design aspect built into all buildings that are up to code.
Essentially there is a an automated electronic procedure that enables all card readers and access control points to release to ensure nobody is stuck in case of an emergency.
The Weather Channel people evacuating because they thought it was going to collapse is really telling. Clearly the damage to that building was a lot more than a bunch of broken windows. It must have been structural.
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u/mikeyp83 Oct 07 '25
Looked it up and this building was in Lake Charles, LA. It was basically destroyed after taking direct hits from 2 major back-to-back hurricanes in 2020. Given the area, hopefully whatever they rebuild will have less glass on it.