watch the wall fall off a Chelsea apartment building and the Con Ed power station explosion (video)

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wall falls off building
photo via mr kunle

As Curbed points out:

Around 6:00 pm tonight, the facade of 92 Eight Avenue, a rental building between and 14th and 15th Streets in Chelsea, collapsed, possibly due to the insane hurricane winds that are currently gusting upwards of 80 miles an hour. The FDNY quickly responded and evacuated all the residents of the building, which also houses a Muscle Maker Grill on the ground floor. Thankfully, no one was injured or trapped,

As you can see in the video below, emergency vehicles were already outside the building, when the wall fell off.

Also below, that rather spectacular (and scary) video of the Con Ed power plant explosion from last night.

and this is the Con Ed explosion:

Tags: Hurricane Sandy, hurricanes

posted at 11:01 PM on October 29, 2012 in general | Comments (18)

Comments (18)

Scary stuff

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2012 11:21 PM

Out in New Jersey houses are being crushed by the dozen. Stay safe friends.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2012 11:25 PM

This hurricane is weak. Category 1 ain't shit.

Posted by Anonymous | October 30, 2012 1:03 AM

Lower Manhattan is without electricity, Rockaways have flooding and fires, Long Island has flooding in many areas, and NJ was hit bad not to mention the evacuation on the NYU hospital because of power failure so lets be thankful the rest of didnt have it as bad as those areas.
And dont forget Staten Island has serious flooding in houses and apts also.

NYC couldnt handle a much stronger storm with the density of population along with the power plants next to water.

Posted by Anonymous | October 30, 2012 1:21 AM

buildings can be evacuated. people cannot

Posted by Anonymous | October 30, 2012 1:25 AM

I suppose the only good news about this storm is now there is one less muscle maker grill.

Posted by Anonymous | October 30, 2012 2:19 AM

buildings can be evacuated.

Posted by Golf | October 30, 2012 3:36 AM

This was a weak storm geez

Posted by Anonymous | October 30, 2012 8:37 AM

Yankees are pussies...The Gulf Coast eats storms like this for breakfast.

Posted by Anonymous | October 30, 2012 8:44 AM