Strong winds from Typhoon Yagi tore the windows off a high-rise building in Vietnam.

https://i.imgur.com/UBcs5pC.mp4

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Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Holy shit. I thought it was just going to show the open windows being ripped off. Though, I'm sure those are partially to blame for the outcome.

Delta_V@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y

That… comes across as a design flaw.

qbus@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

That would be called curtain wall construction. And behind it was curtains

Agent641@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

I left Hanoi the day after the typhoon hit:

The evening before, this tree fell right in front of me while I was walking down the road, yes those are powerlines:

This is the video I captured before, during, and after:

https://youtu.be/BZi4Sx0nKo4?si=C6G9TpTu8j8NmMSN

BoxerDevil@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

At least this has an obvious reason for the windows coming off. In West Taiwan, the sides of building just fall off

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

Fine then. New York City.

ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

if only these also had windows 11's recall feature enabled.