>work on 73rd floor of LA skyscraper
>have a bug out bag under my desk just in case
>enough stuff to get home about 15 miles away
>we have a stupid mandatory disaster prep meeting yesterday
>"in the event of an earthquake our structure is sound and would stay standing"
>alright, sounds good
>"outside there will be broken glass 5 to 7 feet deep"
>FIVE TO SEVEN FEET OF BROKEN GLASS
>mfw
So /k/, how would you deal with 7 foot deep streets of broken glass?
>>30485166
A good pair of square toe boots and a blatant disregard for your own personal safety
>>30485193
What the fuck are square toe boots?
>>30485203
>What the fuck are square toe boots?
Literally what it means. Boots with a square toe instead of a point. Like your fucking post.
>>30485166
I assume walking on glass would be like walking on snow, that is, if it's not packed tightly you'll sink right in.
>>30485166
Pack a parachute
>>30485388
This. And learn how to basejump.
Seeing some dude basejump out of the twin towers would have been gangster as fuck.
>>30485321
>Sinking into 7 feet of broken glass
This is some Saw level shit
>>30485400
Didn't someone do that during the new tower's construction?
>>30485166
Maybe your disaster person misspoke and meant 5 to 7 inches?
Anyway, glass doesn't melt under pressure the way snow does, so I imagine you can walk on top of the pile without sinking in. It'd probably be like a shitload of sharp gravel. Ever had a car window break? I bet it'd be like that.
>>30485166
It's gonna be five to seven inches m8, that's still pretty hazardous, but I think you'll be good with some nice shark-bite boots.
>>30485166
Roll across it.
>>30485203
Boots for people with square toes.
And to answer your question a suit made of something that smashes glass. Rocks, duh.
>>30485166
What are you, a pussy?
>The building has not already collapsed.
>>30486020
strap women to your feet
>glass ceiling
>meet glass floor
>>30485868
>5-7"
If you take every glass pane for that side of the building and lay them on top of each other, it will be far more than 5-7".
Obviously not every single square inch of glass will fall directly at the base of the building but come on.
>>30485297
>not wearing matterhorns everyday
City fags can't into boots
>>30485166
Is it possible to stay put? Assuming your building is ok, it might be safer to wait out the chaos below.
>>30486077
Yes, but it has the whole street to fill, and each side is probably flanked by a similar building. Two sides to a street makes 5 feet seem likely
>>30485457
Yes. But the new one wasn't on fire and collapsing when he did it.
>>30486063
Damn it I laughed way to hard at this. I'm a bad person.
If you want to try to walk through it, another concern aside from the footwear would be breathing in tiny glass dust. It can really fuck up your lungs and throat. So don't forget to bring a good quality dust or gas mask as well as closely fitted eye protection.
>>30485297
Holy shit
![[LMF]_Ghost_In_The_Shell_2nd_GIG_-_18_[4481E4AD].avi_snapshot_05.45_[2016.07.03_11.40.06].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/aftnx8o.jpg "[LMF]_Ghost_In_The_Shell_2nd_GIG_-_18_[4481E4AD].avi_snapshot_05.45_[2016.07.03_11.40.06].jpg")
>>30485166
I just watched that episode
>>30485203
top zozzle
>>30486221
This, buildings have tempered glass panels, the visible layer on the groundwill be like pieces of a broken windshield / side window of a car but it produces a fuckton of glass dust when falling from some height.
We have a new tower near where I work, some panels of exterior glass have fallen, it's consider normal as it's tempered glass, it can break on itself due to microscopic inclusion during fabrication process. It's fucking architect bullshit but the panel is already exploded in tiny pieces long before it reaches the ground so it doesn't hurt anybody passing by. Ground will look like gravel, as long as you don't slip and fall face first in it it should be safe and will not require special boots.
>>30486063
Holy fuck
I mean, an explosive of any kind would clear an exit at ground level, but you cant keep that in the bag.
Maybe there is material for it in the building. This option would help everyone in the building.
Laying out 2 blankets over the glass will provide stability. Lay one out, stand on it, lay the second one in front, stand on that, grab ghe first one and place in front, rinse repeat.
Or sew a kevlar bag you jump into and roll down the sparkly mountain of glass and watch your coworkers slowly sink into it and die horrible deaths..
>>30485166
Two kevlar sheets.
Throw one down and walk over it, then throw another down and walk on it, pick up the one behind and start again.
Surf the shards.
>>30486063
Giggled like a retard with a snickers bar for a good while
>>30485166
parachute
just jump through the broken window
>>30486436
And land on glass shards? Noice...
>>30486448
I dunno, cover a block or two
steerable parachute
>>30486436
Even better, get a wing suit and glide far away before hitting your parachute. Turn your awful earthquake experience into an adrenaline rush.
https://youtu.be/TWfph3iNC-k
>had no idea what the hell 7 feet of broken glass looked like
>google 7 feet to meters
>2 meters of broken glass
holy shit
>>30485166
You work on the top floor of the US Bank tower? Just keep a parachute in your bugout bag and parachute home.
pick a light blue chute or something so you aren't target practice for the gangs
>>30485297
>>30485400
they did.
they just didnt have chutes
>>30486063
My sides. Thanks anon. Kek/10
>>30485166
once you traverse the broken glass, how do you plan on navigating the rivers of aids infested blood on the streets?
>>30485166
If you work that high up, you must be important
>and probably rich
Just buy a jet pack and lmao on out of there, son.
>>30485166
Does your bug out include a fine filter mask? Because it'll be hard to make it home with your lungs filing with your own blood from ask the air born glass
Also just wear sturdy boots and some fire hose work clothes, not completely cut proof but better than nothing while keeping it affordable and mostly unrestricted movement.
For 5-7" of glass, you would prolly need, at a minimum, motocross boots, preferably FF boots.
>>30486552
Topkek
>>30486063
>>30485166
>"outside there will be broken glass 5 to 7 feet deep"
Civil engineer fag here, I seriously doubt it would be that thick, 6 inches at the most.
>>30485166
>>we have a stupid mandatory disaster prep meeting yesterday
>"outside there will be broken glass 5 to 7 feet deep"
Sounds like you were the stupid one OP, to not have planned for this. Good thing these smart people saved your ass.
>>30485203
fuckin dumbass
>>30486631
This, but more for long term effects of Silicosis.
>>30487371
You're a fucking terrible engineer then. USAF Civil engineer here also. Ball parking a few numbers, standard sky scraper window's 1/4" thickness and 4'h by 3'w, with 20 panes to a floor for the 76 floors we know of.
After some math that means the glass could be an even 5' thick for 25 feet from the bar of the building (obviously it won't fall evenly, but whatever I'm not doing more math)
That's easily enough to cover the 8-10' sidewalk and well into the third land of traffic. Add in the glad from the building across the street and you have people being buried alive in glass dust.
Let me guess, your an officer engineer ain't ya?
>>30487371
>all 70+ stories of his buildings glass piled up
>all the surrounding buildings glass piled up
Pretty sure it'll be in the feet range
>>30487514
Fuck this auto-correct phone bullshit.
>>30485166
tactical push broom
>>30485297
S-A-V-A-G-E
>>30486590
>not keeping a bug out kayak
>>30485166
bust off a couple nice size chunks of your desk and secure them to the bottom of your feets and palms of hands and go carefully.
would you sink into it like a masochistic scroodge mduck, or could you walk on it?
>>30485166
>put on shades
>set headset to this
https://youtu.be/7Owjaa5ATjs?t=40s
>get to steppin
>>30487626
you can walk on it
>>30485166
Your building got a basement? I'm sure there's some type of tunnel or sewer system you could break into to get outside the glass danger zone. Pack some bolt cutters.
>>30485166
this didnt happen in northridge and that was a big one
>>30485166
Snowshoes or two small tennis rackets prepped with paracord (practice putting them on before hand).
Sounds like your bugout plan needs to include an M113 secured somewhere on the first floor of your building, OP
>>30486530
You need a lot of experience to do that.
They make a parachute called SOS chute I think that is designed for escaping from senerios such as this.
>>30486762
>FF boots
It's like you want to understeer into a wall and die.
>>30485166
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6eg_oIPhfA
>>30487698
well then the solution is to climb down from the 1st floor and walk down the mound of glass
>>30486114
>because OP's building will be the only one with thousands of broken windows falling to the street below in Downtown LA right
Except it won't be
>>30487514
so if you stacked all the glass you would have 19" high of solid glass all around the building. If all that glass fell you would have maybe an inch thick of shards, it would be spread all over the street.
>>30487876
The correct thing to do is break a tabletop off and use that bitch as a sled
>>30485166
Why leave the building at all?
Everyone inside will be unarmed and unprepared. Become their warlord, rule over them with an iron fist.
The building's new glass fortifications will protect it from the roaming gangs of rioters and looters.
>>30488053
then the table catches on an imperfection in surface and OP slides face first down a mountain of glass.
>>30488162
dont most workplaces have breakrooms with those break-down tables? those have a lip around the edge that OP can use to brace his feet against
>>30486063
/pol/ is always right
>>30488177
Yeah, but they also have cutouts in the middle for phone cables and whatnot, so OP will get broken glass shooting straight into his ass.
>>30487392
KEK
>>30488198
who said that wasnt part of the plan
he could always sit in a way that when he sleds down, glass would shoot out of that hole like water from a jet-ski
>>30488052
>19 inches
>76 Story building worth of glass
You just went full retard son
>>30485203
It's not that complicated.
>>30488348
>thumbnail is about docking
>>30485166
Assuming you have parking garage.
>get to garage
>find car
>look for good think tires
>cut them fuckers up with the knife I assume you have in BOB
>if not prepare to make halfassed boots and get big knife
>cut up tire and make extra padding for your shoe soles
>use some paracord or soemthing to hold them on like sandles
Boom done
>>30486114
And those similar buildings have windows that will also shatter
>>30486599
Lol no. The bankers are out on their yachts or private planes, or child sex orgies. They dont work. He's probably an accountant or advisor or some shit.
>>30488348
>>30488348
i like square to.
>>30488454
Or, you know, just bring some boots to the office and leave them there.
Then what are you gonna do after you clear the 7+ foot high, god knows how deep, mountain of glass?
You're in the middle of fucking LA. That is ground zero my friend.
>>30487765
>can't BASE jump in bunker gear
Butt hurt leofag detected
>>30485297
Wow
pack a hang glider into your bug out bag and just glide the fuck out of the city
>>30485166
Bring a parachute and just aim for wherever there isn't 5 to 7 feet of broken glass. 73 floors is enough to expand a parachute I'm sure.
>>30485166
Holy shit if that's true.
Only thing that can come to mind is to stuff some really tough boots, pants, and gloves into your bag.
Sweet jesus Anon. That is just amazing. I pitty the poor motherfuckers who would be outside during such an event.
>>30487514
Different anon here. Walk me through it. I came up with 432 cubic inches of glass per pane, or 8640 cu/in per story. That's around 5 cu/ft of glass per story. Times 76 stories comes out to 380 cu/ft of glass per building side hitting the street. I don't see how that's going to give you a sidewalk piled with 5 feet of glass, stretching out into at least 1 traffic lane.
But, you're the expert, show me where I botched my numbers.
>>30485166
>Lives in a big city
you're already fucked - might as well take a seat and wait it out.
>>30487626
Think sharp gravel. Really shiny sharp gravel. A pair of sunglasses would be a good thing to have. Tinted eyepro would be even better.
>>30485166
Hiking boots
snake gaiters
trekking poles.
See you dumb cunts later.
>>30489279
this.
If you're living in the city you don't value your life.
>>30488955
Go snake plisken on 'em
>>30489269
Nearly 3000 gallons worth of glass, that's 380 foot high by foot wide cubes of glass, now add in the fact that they're going to be piling on top of each other and the air pockets they'll contain.
Idk how the other guy got 5 feet into the 3rd lane of traffic but there will be a pile of glass a good few feet high around the base
>>30489269
You didn't mess up anything, Anon. I did the math for if the glass covers the entire street; it comes out to 1.08 in deep, 2.16 in if there's an identical building across the street.
If you want to see the depth for different street widths, put this equation into the Wolfram Alpha, it'll solve it for you if you're too lazy to check the values yourself. Also, the output is inches, not feet.
One building
60(12) * (10+12x)(12) * X = 656640
Or
Two identical buildings
60(12) * (10+12x)(12) * X = 656640(2)
They probably mean 5 to 7 feet long not deep.
Steel toe boots, glasses, maybe a pair of cover or over alls to throw over what you're wearing if you got space to fit it another layer might help a bit. Pair of gloves.
>>30486063
>>30490211
autsim
>>30487343
>using that anti-freedom britcuck as a reaection gif on /k/
>>30490543
How? I asked a question, specifying that he walk me through it. He did, with graphics.
Also, wtf is"autsim"? Were you trying to spell autism? Well you didn't, Corky. You failed. You fucked up on the internet, where the whole world can see it. The NSA goons who monitor this board are laughing their asses off right now, because you decided to skip remedial English in summer school.
Good going, Corky. People like you make it damn hard for the rest of us to be proud we're Americans.
>>30488123
Gaylord berserkers attack! Send in the smegma crazies!
>>30486063
>>30485166
we're not helping you, hans
>pic related
bring a shovel you stupid fucks
>>30485409
>>Sinking into 7 feet of broken glass
>not snorkling through it as a 6ft6 god
THEY CALL ME SHANG TSUNG
ETERNAL CHAMPION
>>30485166
>>"outside there will be broken glass 5 to 7 feet deep"
Is this bulletproof glass or something? How does it not shatter into a shallower pile?
>>30489269
>>30490211
Jesus christ. Please don't be Americans.
>>30491967
Sure looks like inches
>>30491967
Even if they aren't, they'll say they are cause nothing makes a europoor happier than shitting on america. Especially before evening prayer.
>>30485166
Even if it were 7 feet, which seems reasonable considering how much glass there is, why would only the glass fall out? i assume there would be quite a bit of rubble as well.
>>30486762
>ff
>wanting cuck wheel drive, ever
>>30491980
kek
>>30485166
There better be a parachute in your bug out bag
One you can steer
>>30492012
because 10 years worth of plastic binders filled with TPS reports arent going to be as hazardous as navigating a saharas worth of broken glass
7 feet of glass stops being a problem when you're 25 feet tall.
>>30485203
found the bong
>>30491967
Ok, Einstein. Lets see what your calcs come up with. You've got 2 sets of calculations, both showing that the 5 to 7 feet of broken glass figure is arrant bullshit. Inches instead of feet MIGHT be possible if the buildings are tall enough.
What are your numbers showing, Buckminster?
>>30489887
>Nearly 3000 gallons worth of glass, that's 380 foot high by foot wide cubes of glass,
Yes, spread evenly along the base of the building. Using the figures from>>30487514 regarding number and size of windows, we have a minimum of 60 feet of frontage that this glass has to cover. That will give you a maximum of 6.33 feet of glass at the base of the building, assuming that the glass doesn't spread more than 1 foot out from the base of the building. But that's not very realistic, is it?
If we assume an angle of repose of 45 degrees for the glass fragments, that halves our possible pile height. Still not very realistic because we're not accounting for wind drift and impact dispersal.
I could see a glass drift of maybe 9-12 inches right at the base of the building, tapering out across the sidewalk and into the street. Keep in mind that this is tempered glass, so it'll act like pea gravel once it starts moving.
>>30492105
Uhh, sauce on this?
>>30491967
>"Please don't be Americans."
What did he mean by this? Does he really think that there will be 5-7 ft worth of glass? Is logical discourse really this shunned on 4chan?
>>30494057
http://www.moddb.com/mods/renegade-x/news/renegade-x-beta-5-released
It's a U.T. 3 mod, that combines RTS and FPS elements.
>>30485297
holy kek
>>30487514
Glass is 1/2 in to 3/4 in
>>30485166
Honest question for any high rise workers.
Do you have sufficient rope and absail gear to evacuate ? Or attempt to evac if your fire exit is blocked?
I was in downtown San Francisco during the quake of 89. There was a lot of glass. But it was easy to walks around still. Just piles here and there
>>30486449
>steerable parachute
fuck it why not just buy a driveable parachute
>>30495339
I'm not a high rise worker, but from the sky scrapers that I have been in, there has been no gear to repel down the building, that or they just hide the equipment really well.
>>30495460
I mean in your bug out.
Honestly being trapped in a high rise to burn tmis fear no 1 for me. (thanks towering inferno)
I think if i was in a highrise i would have a stash of rope or something to get me out. Juar inn casr
>>30495502
The stairs are always your best option. But if you have to make an ass of yourself you'd be better off with basejumping gear.
>>30487765
kek
>>30488296
what's 76 times 1/4" einstein
>>30495610
It really depends on how well drilled the building is, visiting Korea the raid drill came on an entire 30 floor building was empty and inside the shelter in less than 10 min because they've been doing that shit since they were little. I really would not trust US white collar folk to not fuck up basic instructions during anything important so I'd have rope and a brace handy. Maybe a shotgun and a mallet to break the glass if it hasn't been already broken.
>>30495426
I would imagine the higher-ups are standard issued a helicopter backpack, and several kilos of cocaine, if The Wolf of Wall Street is anything to go by. The average office worker would probably get a backpack full of sand instead of a parachute anyways.
>>30495502
There really aren't any good anchoring points in an office, so good luck even managing to get harnessed. That and based on how high you might be, the wind can get pretty strong, so unless you want to slam into the side of building after repelling 20 ft there's really no purpose. And, unless you have the foresight to carry the rope yourself, your rope will unspool all at once, and when the rope hits the end it'll snap under tension leading to instant whiplash, followed by pancakification when you hit the ground.
I can't see gear being useful any higher than 10 stories anyways, unless you want to start a human egg drop experiment.
>>30495720
Jumping out the window opens yourself to a whole other world of danger. Exit stairs are by design the safest part of the building in a crisis.
There are self rescue desenders made for 200m evacuations. But they require mounting pointa and harnesses.
A a german company makes an easy to deploy rescue slide thqt can go 80m and evac 8 ppl/ min.
Honestly if. I had a company. That was in a high rise.... I would want us low to ground as possible. If not a last resort personal desender ( they have a 15yr warranty) would be a cheap option for my employees. Plus quartly drills.
>>30491777
It is the smaller pile anon.
If the glass was made of sturdy stuff, we would have 10-20 ft of broken glass
>>30495783
true, and I'm sure there were a lot of lessons learned by building designers regarding safety after 9/11 but nothing wrong with having a bit of insurance. Would probably recommend actually practicing rappelling as there are other variables like wind and even fire shooting up the side of the building you might do well to learn to avoid.
>>30495846
If the building is on fire and you're above the source you'll be dead from smoke inhalation in seconds.
>>30495872
Monoxide is a botch.
>>30485400
Even better would be if his chute was flag-patterned and a bald eagle followed him all the way down.
If only I had a time machine...
>>30495846
Hopefully they were able to design steel beams that can't be melted by jet fuel.
>>30486092
>city fags
Try normal people. Wearing those boots make you look like a fucking retard unless you're jacking lumber or some shit
>>30488348
square toe dress shoe is hopelessly out of fashion and not coming back in any time soon.
>>30486552
>>30485297
>>30485297
holy fuck
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>>30486063
>>30486092
Those are good but not good for working everyday in an office. Something like a pair of Redbacks would be better because they don't look as aspie in slacks or a suit.
>>30485166
Quite frankly the shit already on the ground wouldn't bother me. A good set of boots/gloves will protect from that. It's the late fallers and the glass dust that will get you.
>>30486063
>>30490211
There's a lot of variables however,
> reinforced glass
> thickness of glass
> full wall windows or half wall
> multiple panes of glass
> glass landing direction (horizontal, vertical, angled)
> where the glass lands (on a car, on a trashed mattress, on a person)
> size of shards when lanes of the ground
> speed of glass breaking on the glass already on the ground
> number of stories in the building
Too many variables to accurately do the math
>>30501461
I agree, I was merely trying to approximate that based on the sheer volume of glass covering a certain area entirely that there was no way for there to be 5 to 7 ft worth of glass. If I wanted to project the actual results I would have consulted some sort of physics emulation tool, but quite frankly that's not too realistic for me to do.
>>30485166
>Not grabbing your coworkers and making a path for you and the office slut
Its like youre new here
>>30485297
>>30486063
I can't breathe
