New nightmare fodder: Sucked out of high-rise windows during heavy winds

April 6, 2024 1:17 PM

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.
posted by 2soxy4mypuppet (4 comments total)

Well there's something else to have nightmares about.
posted by JHarris at 1:22 PM on April 6, 2024

Wind does strange things. A building my father used to work in had windows sucked out on a regular basis until they installed baffles.

Fortunately there was no one sleeping nearby, in the building or below.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 1:24 PM on April 6, 2024

Everything I've read says not to crack a window. I have floor-to-ceiling glass sliders wall-to-wall in both rooms of my high-rise, we currently are experiencing high winds, the frames are creaking, I am freaking out lol.
posted by 2soxy4mypuppet at 1:29 PM on April 6, 2024 [1 favorite]

How horrible. There are reports of the appalling state of building standards throughout mainland China, seemingly a frequent product of widespread corruption. They tend to not get reported in the West, as stories like this are often suppressed even locally, and are viewed as embarrassing by authorities at all levels. If there's no foreigner or someone with a VPN around, they rarely get spread.
posted by 2N2222 at 2:02 PM on April 6, 2024