Timeline for What if the Empire State Building were buried to the roof in snow?
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | Samuel | "That building is about a mile tall". What? The Empire State building is not even 1/4 of a mile high including the antenna. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 2:28 | comment | added | candied_orange | Glacier is exactly right. If it's that high it isn't going to behave like snowfall, or even a snow drift. At the bottom it's going to be liquid water simply from the pressure. It is very much like a giant iceberg, on land, looking to head downhill. Traveling at a few inches a year it will it hit ocean and break up into actual icebergs since that's what icebergs are, broken up glaciers. The lateral forces might not destroy the windows until the break up since it's all moving together but the buildings foundation / basement is going to get left behind. Would love to see this on what-if.xkcd | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 3:51 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 31, 2015 at 3:48 | history | answered | SK Reeder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |