By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--May 30, 2014
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A California family visiting the Willis Tower in Chicago said they heard the glass flooring on its 103rd floor Skydeck begin to crack Wednesday night while they were taking in views of the city. A spokesman from the building said the sound came from the coating on the glass and the family was never in danger, The Chicago Sun-Times reported. "Occasionally this happens, but that's because we designed it this way," he told the paper. "Whatever happened last night is a result of the protective coating doing what it’s designed to." Moments before the family walked out onto the Skydeck, they say they were reassured by staffers that the window flooring was unbreakable. "I had my palms on the floor and I could feel it cracking," Alejandro Garibay, 23, told The Chicago Tribune. "Honestly, I was in shock, in disbelief. I was scared."OK, now I am not an expert on such things, and I understand the desire of the building staff to make it sound like this is no big deal. But come on. The floor starts to crack underneath a family while they're standing on the 103rd floor, and you say, Oh yeah, that's what we designed it to do? Seriously? The guy claims the protective coating is designed to make a cracking noise? That's the idea? It never occurred to them that this might freak people out? And how is it that, if this is normal, we've never heard of this happening before? Am I being obtuse here? Is there something about plastic protective coatings that I just really don't understand? Or am I manifesting my inherent distrust of everything associated with Chicago? I do like the pizza.
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