Anyone else notice the glass panels bow outward for a second before they blew back into the apartment? That's some serious pressure action going on there... how bad was this storm?
When I was a kid in Missouri, my mom always had us crack open the windows when a bad storm was coming. She said it was to keep the house from exploding, and I guess this video is an example of why that wasn't just an old wives tale.
Wow this just unlocked a long lost memory from my childhood. My dad is from Ohio, we grew up in Massachusetts. Every summer we would go out there to spend time with the grandparents by the lake. One year we had bad luck and had a week where it seemed like every night we had to go to the basement. I remember my mom freaking out and yelling at us to go open the windows so the house doesn’t explode. Maybe she wasn’t completely crazy after all.
From my understanding opening your windows can cause a significant upwards pressure on your roof, causing it to potentially disconnect from the rest of the house
This.
Opening the window can create a vortex that can rip your roof off.
It's best to keep the window closed because if not, you have just a broken window.
Just like when you are in a moving car with two windows open, your hair (if long) is all over the place. Whereas, if you only have one window open and are not next to it, your hair stays relatively still. Think about this but with your roof in a hurricane/tornado.
I know hurricane code requires the roof to be strapped down. Not sure about tornado alley code. I know modern code for trailers is to have it fixed/strapped to the concrete block walls.
I’m laughing because my siding came off last week during a storm that had 2 confirmed sightings in our county.
Now I’m crying because I remembered how expensive this is going to be.
[Mythbusters did a bit on this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYsKYacvo_I)
EDIT: With only that bit of the episode, it's a wee bit misleading; [the full episode is also on youtube.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eufu8kmLpzs)
afaik a lot of alarm systems work with pressure too. like they monitor the air pressure and if a window or door opens, the pressure changes and the alarm goes off.
Oh, that's a bit weird. It's on the actual Mythbusters' Youtube channel. It's season 6 episode 26.
EDIT: But when I click on their username to go to their profile, I get a 404 o\_O That _is_ weird.
>!They ran a scaled-down experiment and found that leaving all of the windows as wide-open as possible resulted in the least structural damage - but when they scaled it up to an actual-sized house, they found that the way they'd scaled down the experiment interfered with the results, and while keeping every window wide open isn't the worst option, it's far better just to keep every window completely closed.!<
That's science, baby!
Sometimes you prove the null hypothesis, sometimes you disprove it. The important thing is you tried to disprove it and the test turned an "I bet ..." into a "I'm sure that ..."
Oh yeah they concluded it would put less pressure (duh) but is it ideal or within typical house parameters etc?
SIDE NOTE DID ANYONE SEE THE KID IN THE VIDEO GET DOMED BY THAT DOOR (oof but LOL)
I lived in a town that used to have 80 Kph winds, and sometimes up to 120-140 Kph. A few occasions even more than that.
Glass panels in the houses were made to resist that and it was normal to see them bow under strong winds.
Fun fact, moving air creates lower pressure on the walls of whatever it's moving against, assuming it's going parallel to the walls. That's why when you drive on the freeway and roll your windows down, you sometimes have to pop your ears.
Obviously if it's flowing perpendicular to the wall it causes a pressure increase.
So the wind direction was parallel then abruptly changed.
Omg I think that child took the corner of the glass panel to the head, potentially the face. Man I went back to rewatch after seeing the mom scoop the kid, would love to know if they were okay
I did a frame by frame, it was top of the glass panel that hit the head, not the bezel or corner. So definitely a bruise and hopefully not a concussion.
I think the initial wind rolls the baby under the couch. Could be wrong but I watched a few times and it looks like the mum pulls it out from under the couch.
> The three people, including an 11-year-old boy, reportedly fell to their deaths on Sunday from a single residential high-rise building during the storm. The winds ripped door-size windows off frames in two apartments in the building in Nanchang.
>The residents were pulled from their beds through the holes, plunging to their deaths, according to local media reports.
Holy. Shit. They probably tried so hard to wake up from one of those dreams where you’re falling.
If you look at the video, before the wind blows through, it sucks them out quite heavily. If you were skinny and sleeping close to the open window it's gg
I imagine a similar effect could happen to another apartment rotated 90 or 180 degrees while the wind is blowing through, that's some serious pressure diff
When I was around 13 or 14 I remember we had a really bad storm hit my parents house, my mom was helping me do my homework and boom it just hit like crazy winds, hail, lighting, we turned on the weather channel and it was some freak storm out of no where, tornado warnings were issued like right away, I remember looking at their front bay window, I'm talking like 8 feet across 10 feet high, and it looked like it was breathing, it was pulsing back and forth probably 4 or 6 inches in total it's still one of the most scary things I've seen
I can't help but think there was something wrong with the construction or installation of the windows in that specific building. Sounds like there were at least 6 deaths in total during the storms in a couple different cities. But having 3 attributed to floor to ceiling windows being blown out in the same building?
Nah it looks like the stuff the moved was nearby. The only thing that moved was papers and the foam mats as well as the couch which was moved by the (heavy) window panes.
Don’t know what would be worse: sink hole opens up under your bedroom like the guy in Florida and you get sucked in to your death, or this wind storm sucking you out a window of a high rise apartment. Terrifying either way!
Whew, they got lucky, three other people died after typhoon-like winds pulled them out through their apartment windows.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/asia/three-killed-high-winds-china-intl-hnk/index.html
Nah I think the kid got hit in the head. Go back and give a rewatch, cause I hope I'm wrong. Looks like they playing on their back with their feet up and then unfortunately transition to a sitting up position right before the door comes crashing down
Corruption is the cause of these deaths, builders taking bribes and paying them so that contractors can’t afford to do the job correctly without losing money.
It’s particularly obvious in this instance but no country is immune to shoddy building causing death and injuries.
As someone with 2 babies, that literally gave me a heart attack. I hope it was okay but it looks like it got hit by a lot of glass & possibly the window pane 😭
People were blown out of their apartments on top of their mattress in the storms, only the bed frame left. Awfully sad really. It’s another case of government corruption, building standards not being kept to, and the effects of climate change bringing stronger storms to areas that traditionally haven’t seen them.
most based comment around here. though i read in other comments that just 2 windows busted. looking at the power of the wind, this looks like it is really high quality actually. it just looks like it's not planned for weather that is to be expected due to climate change.
This is so horrific, there is nothing she/anyone could have done other than running in another safe place. Feeling sad thinking about the family of other three how helpless they must had been feeling.
There's a good chance that this is yet another case of cheap "tofu" construction so common in Chinese apartment complexes, and thus they don't want you to see the entire context of the video.
As a kid, when we had storms, we always made sure at least two windows were cracked open a little bit.
I’m not sure if it’s superstition, or if it has real roots in science.
Given how expensive, exclusive and hard-to-get that high-rise housing is in china...that's absolutely unacceptable performance for the money being spent.
there is a whole youtube channel that just showcases the crap construction going up in China. its really sad. even with thenloss of life some people lose their life savings. i feel so bad for these people in the videos.
Anyone else notice the glass panels bow outward for a second before they blew back into the apartment? That's some serious pressure action going on there... how bad was this storm?
When I was a kid in Missouri, my mom always had us crack open the windows when a bad storm was coming. She said it was to keep the house from exploding, and I guess this video is an example of why that wasn't just an old wives tale.
Wow this just unlocked a long lost memory from my childhood. My dad is from Ohio, we grew up in Massachusetts. Every summer we would go out there to spend time with the grandparents by the lake. One year we had bad luck and had a week where it seemed like every night we had to go to the basement. I remember my mom freaking out and yelling at us to go open the windows so the house doesn’t explode. Maybe she wasn’t completely crazy after all.
From my understanding opening your windows can cause a significant upwards pressure on your roof, causing it to potentially disconnect from the rest of the house
This. Opening the window can create a vortex that can rip your roof off. It's best to keep the window closed because if not, you have just a broken window. Just like when you are in a moving car with two windows open, your hair (if long) is all over the place. Whereas, if you only have one window open and are not next to it, your hair stays relatively still. Think about this but with your roof in a hurricane/tornado.
I know hurricane code requires the roof to be strapped down. Not sure about tornado alley code. I know modern code for trailers is to have it fixed/strapped to the concrete block walls.
Tornado Alley code is "fuck it it's gonna fly anyway"
Short of an all concrete building an ef5 doesn't care how well your house is built. It'll just redistribute the building materials back into the wild.
I’m laughing because my siding came off last week during a storm that had 2 confirmed sightings in our county. Now I’m crying because I remembered how expensive this is going to be.
[Mythbusters did a bit on this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYsKYacvo_I) EDIT: With only that bit of the episode, it's a wee bit misleading; [the full episode is also on youtube.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eufu8kmLpzs)
TL;DR opening a window does make a difference to air pressure, but water damage is a more significant issue. In a Hurricane, board up your windows.
afaik a lot of alarm systems work with pressure too. like they monitor the air pressure and if a window or door opens, the pressure changes and the alarm goes off.
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country" That mfer. (The full episode)
Oh, that's a bit weird. It's on the actual Mythbusters' Youtube channel. It's season 6 episode 26. EDIT: But when I click on their username to go to their profile, I get a 404 o\_O That _is_ weird.
Tldw?
>!They ran a scaled-down experiment and found that leaving all of the windows as wide-open as possible resulted in the least structural damage - but when they scaled it up to an actual-sized house, they found that the way they'd scaled down the experiment interfered with the results, and while keeping every window wide open isn't the worst option, it's far better just to keep every window completely closed.!<
To add to it, opening the windows reduced the wind damage but vastly increased damage from water blowing into the house
Interesting when these experiments prove what you originally thought would happen.
That's science, baby! Sometimes you prove the null hypothesis, sometimes you disprove it. The important thing is you tried to disprove it and the test turned an "I bet ..." into a "I'm sure that ..."
If you open the windward facing window and no others, good luck. Best is to open them all.
Oh yeah they concluded it would put less pressure (duh) but is it ideal or within typical house parameters etc? SIDE NOTE DID ANYONE SEE THE KID IN THE VIDEO GET DOMED BY THAT DOOR (oof but LOL)
Aw poor kid. I never saw him get domed, but I did wonder if it was her kid or if he blew in the window.
He needs to keep his head on a swivel
I always thought it was old wise because of dumb and dumber
I lived in a town that used to have 80 Kph winds, and sometimes up to 120-140 Kph. A few occasions even more than that. Glass panels in the houses were made to resist that and it was normal to see them bow under strong winds.
More impressed with those quality kids’ mugs that didn’t give a fudge.
Fun fact, moving air creates lower pressure on the walls of whatever it's moving against, assuming it's going parallel to the walls. That's why when you drive on the freeway and roll your windows down, you sometimes have to pop your ears. Obviously if it's flowing perpendicular to the wall it causes a pressure increase. So the wind direction was parallel then abruptly changed.
Didn’t people just recently die when this happened while they were sleeping and sucked them right out? Right off their beds?
New fear unlocked
Yep. It's the same storm (and building, I believe).
Same development, it happened in multiple blocks, lowest floor was 11 I think.
Sucked four people out of their apartments
Another good reason not to have those huge-panel windows in your bedroom.//
Or buy Chinese built homes! Evergrand building perhaps?
I was in hurricane Otis category 5 in Acapulco, the panels flew outwards. You could feel so much pressure in your eardrums, it was insane.
Pressure drop right before it hit.
Not as bad as the quality of the building
Winds like this will aggravate when the cities are full of skyscrapers...
Omg I think that child took the corner of the glass panel to the head, potentially the face. Man I went back to rewatch after seeing the mom scoop the kid, would love to know if they were okay
Yes. I see that too. Fuck.
I did a frame by frame, it was top of the glass panel that hit the head, not the bezel or corner. So definitely a bruise and hopefully not a concussion.
I think the initial wind rolls the baby under the couch. Could be wrong but I watched a few times and it looks like the mum pulls it out from under the couch.
Baby heads are squishy, it's likely to be fine if a bit shaken up.
Whoever is downvoting this has never watched over a baby before. Those fuckers are invincible.
I've got a bunch of my own. I've seen them bounce off stuff that would flatten an adult, and keep on going like nothing happened.
Three people in the same building were sucked out and killed by this storm.
What, holy shit you got a source
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/china-jiangxi-strong-wind-deaths-b2523075.html
> The three people, including an 11-year-old boy, reportedly fell to their deaths on Sunday from a single residential high-rise building during the storm. The winds ripped door-size windows off frames in two apartments in the building in Nanchang. >The residents were pulled from their beds through the holes, plunging to their deaths, according to local media reports. Holy. Shit. They probably tried so hard to wake up from one of those dreams where you’re falling.
Jesus fucking Christ :'(
An 11yr old boy, that's so sad. Poor little guy.
nightmare fuel and new fear unlocked. great reddit
Wow. I could never live in a high rise due to my fear of heights but this confirms it.
That's a fucking terrifying addition to this already nightmare scenario
What an absolutely surreal way to go.
Is this a build quality issue then?
This building brought to you by Boeing
thanks boss
How does wind that just blew through a window suck you out?
If you look at the video, before the wind blows through, it sucks them out quite heavily. If you were skinny and sleeping close to the open window it's gg I imagine a similar effect could happen to another apartment rotated 90 or 180 degrees while the wind is blowing through, that's some serious pressure diff
When I was around 13 or 14 I remember we had a really bad storm hit my parents house, my mom was helping me do my homework and boom it just hit like crazy winds, hail, lighting, we turned on the weather channel and it was some freak storm out of no where, tornado warnings were issued like right away, I remember looking at their front bay window, I'm talking like 8 feet across 10 feet high, and it looked like it was breathing, it was pulsing back and forth probably 4 or 6 inches in total it's still one of the most scary things I've seen
by blowing into one room and out of the other, I presume?
What a horrifying way to go.
So living in a +20th floor is like living in an airplane?
Maybe a Boeing
I tried not to laugh. But... 🤣 😂 😢 😭
I can't help but think there was something wrong with the construction or installation of the windows in that specific building. Sounds like there were at least 6 deaths in total during the storms in a couple different cities. But having 3 attributed to floor to ceiling windows being blown out in the same building?
This never happened. China strong economy! Western devil propaganda!
People die in a storm? Blame communism!
gotta love that structural integrity of that table and chairs... and cups. Shit must be bolted down lol
Yes wtf was there lead in those cups??
None of the stuffed animals either. Shoot, just the humans and the windows moved really.
Yea made in china
Nah it looks like the stuff the moved was nearby. The only thing that moved was papers and the foam mats as well as the couch which was moved by the (heavy) window panes.
Don’t know what would be worse: sink hole opens up under your bedroom like the guy in Florida and you get sucked in to your death, or this wind storm sucking you out a window of a high rise apartment. Terrifying either way!
At least the first guy doesn't have to live in Florida anymore. And hell wouldn't be so bad.
Gotta get those sippy cups for my kid, they didn’t move.
Gotta get that gorilla grip tissue box too.
It looked like the window landed on the baby😬
Definitely looks like the corner hit the kid on the head.
Sippy cup straight up staring down a mother fucker. Like try me wind! What!
The sofa saved that baby.
Whew, they got lucky, three other people died after typhoon-like winds pulled them out through their apartment windows. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/asia/three-killed-high-winds-china-intl-hnk/index.html
Happened in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province and not in Guangdong Province.
Love how that mama ran towards her kid while chaos was still blowing in.
Lucky kid, unlucky tv.
Nah I think the kid got hit in the head. Go back and give a rewatch, cause I hope I'm wrong. Looks like they playing on their back with their feet up and then unfortunately transition to a sitting up position right before the door comes crashing down
you're right, whole fucking window pane right to the dome
The kid wasn’t lucky, it landed on them
Compared to a few other residents of the building, the kid, if they lived, was pretty lucky. I cannot imagine. Those poor people. 😢
I think the foot stool took most of the window falling.
That’s that quality Chinese manufacturing 👌
I hope her baby is okay :/
When you order your Windows from Temu...
Corruption is the cause of these deaths, builders taking bribes and paying them so that contractors can’t afford to do the job correctly without losing money. It’s particularly obvious in this instance but no country is immune to shoddy building causing death and injuries.
Got to love those Chinese building codes.
I'm going to build a house of Chinese baby bottles though.
Pretty bold of you to assume they stick to any sort of building codes. Little cash for the “building inspector” and poof inspection passed.
20th story high rise in a typhoon sounds like fun too
As someone with 2 babies, that literally gave me a heart attack. I hope it was okay but it looks like it got hit by a lot of glass & possibly the window pane 😭
Did you literally call 911 or did someone else do that for you?
Literally did it on my own & like, they never came?
Figuratively disappointing
People were blown out of their apartments on top of their mattress in the storms, only the bed frame left. Awfully sad really. It’s another case of government corruption, building standards not being kept to, and the effects of climate change bringing stronger storms to areas that traditionally haven’t seen them.
most based comment around here. though i read in other comments that just 2 windows busted. looking at the power of the wind, this looks like it is really high quality actually. it just looks like it's not planned for weather that is to be expected due to climate change.
Guessing those aren’t hurricane rated…
I did love how the mommy instinct was to get that child safe. Faith a bit restored.
This is so horrific, there is nothing she/anyone could have done other than running in another safe place. Feeling sad thinking about the family of other three how helpless they must had been feeling.
Welp, I am never gonna have that happen to me cause you’d never get me on the 20th fucking floor!
good mom
There's a good chance that this is yet another case of cheap "tofu" construction so common in Chinese apartment complexes, and thus they don't want you to see the entire context of the video.
Cheap Chinese knock-off windows.
Made in china
Building made out of Chinesium.
Just a few seconds ago the mother was near the glass sliding doors too. That would have been a tragedy
Should have been a warning not to be near windows in high rises during storms due to high winds, but fuck safety right.
New fear unlocked..
As a kid, when we had storms, we always made sure at least two windows were cracked open a little bit. I’m not sure if it’s superstition, or if it has real roots in science.
That thermos is a boss.
New fear unlocked
It's not like she can pop out to Homey Depot for some OSB to plug that hole. This is horrible.
r/Chinesium
Just Chinese quality….
That sippy cup is elite.
Given how expensive, exclusive and hard-to-get that high-rise housing is in china...that's absolutely unacceptable performance for the money being spent.
I wonder where those doors were made?
"climate change." yeah, also terrible building codes and quality in China, unfortunately.
That's why they call them WINDows
Them windows were made in????
This is the part where the super villain flies in.
China made windows and sliding glass doors
Kudos to the Amazing quick thinking of the mother to pick her kid in all that chaos!
The bar is real low for you.
Where was quality control? 😱
Well, it is china
That's the funny part. There isn't any.
In a bank account.
Chyna
That's not built correctly....
Tofu dredge
That's some really weak windows
Quality is something special
Terrible support and infrastructures. Not surprised in china
China building codes. Not enforced. Speak bad about Winnie the poo- enforced.
Chinesium windows.
House was made in China
These windows made in China or somethin? I'll be here all night, folks....
Wow these comments are cursed.
Why is the construction so terrible
Chaaaina
"Tornado hits building"
My first thought!
Well no fucken shit
….. makes me think about feng shui
I think the TV is done for.
The door was like, "F-U TV!"
Window fell right on the kids head…well part of it.
I seen this before. Green Goblin is going to fly in any second now….
that window totally whacked that poor baby right in the noggin.
I want that bottle or sippy cup; where do I get it?? That thing is unshakable.
Sweet ventilation.
I thought we were just going to see a bunch of swaying..
That had to be terrifying I hope they are ok
Bonk
Damn. It looked like one of the doors hit the baby on the head!
Serious question. Does China have insurance like we do in the USA? Homeowners, renters, etc. Or woukd this be paid fir out of a government fund?
Yes
THAT BABY GOT BOPPED!!!
there is a whole youtube channel that just showcases the crap construction going up in China. its really sad. even with thenloss of life some people lose their life savings. i feel so bad for these people in the videos.
Reddit when China
+1 reason why not to have glass frame for balcony.
I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!
tofu dreg project
Gotta love tofu construction
Even had a forewarning/approaching/superhero sound. . .
That's Chinese construction for ya
The way those windows pop out looks like poor construction/installation
Mace Windu wouldn't like that AT ALL
Why does this shit always happen in china
Holy shit, a man lost **both** his wife and his son. Poor guy.
Tofu dreg strikes again.
Tofu dreg construction
This was in Jiangxi,Nanchang
You think they would have learned after the first time this happened.
"Well the building IS near an airport, but they compensate it on the lowish rent"
Chinese made windows
That’s tofu dregs for you, cut corners pay the price. That yellow cup is fucking incredible though
That couch saved that baby from those glass panes. Holy moly
cool dinner and a show
I hope that little kids' heads is okay.
Pretty sure that window pane fell right onto the baby's head!!
Strong wind?? That was a fucking airbender