![]() ![]() While the cables rust and snap, the lift's brakes continue to work, stopping it until they too eventually corrode and finally give way causing the lifts to plummet down. Inside the Sears Tower, it contains 104 separate lifts within multiple shafts that ends in different levels of the building. In 200 years segment, the Sears Tower is beginning to totter when decades of ferocious weather have battered the landmark into a hollowed out, honeycomb husk, with yet more of the remaining windows falling out. The wires break and the elevator freefalls. This cause some of the plates to peel off the building and crash into the streets below. The moisture seeps down into the structure and begins rusting the bolts holding the giant glass and aluminium panels on the exterior while the freezing wind, rain, and snow off Lake Michigan violently batter the hulking structure. In 10 years after people, the Sears Tower is slowly deteriorating due to the rainwater which rots the Sears Tower's roof. Richard Lanyon stated that the lower areas of downtown Chicago and the basements of buildings along the river would be flooded, this include the Sears Tower, just one block away from the river itself. While it is not mentioned, although seen, in 3 days after people, it is crucial in the future scenario when a rainstorm hits Chicago and without people to divert or reverse the current to Lake Michigan, it cause a catastrophic result. In Outbreak, it is first introduce in 1 day after people when the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center are standing like giant tombstones and with no one to maintain the structure. The decay caused the Sears Tower, the tallest man-made structure in North America, to collapse as it ended its reign, with no further explanation on its processes of destruction. It was then featured in 200 years after people when decay has overtaken the city of Chicago, along with the Sears Tower. ![]() In the Life After People Documentary, it was seen in the one year segment when the view zoomed out of downtown to show the burning of Chicago. “They bought the concourse level of the building in 2012 and made a lot of improvements to the 17,000-square-foot observation deck,” Wong said. “The big draw is the view because you really can see 360 degrees around, often more than 50 miles in all directions when it’s a clear day.The Sears Tower is featured in the Life After People Documentary and Outbreak. The Tilt was built in 2014 by a French company, Montparnasse 56, that owns 360 Chicago, two towers in Europe, and a crocodile farm in the Rhone Valley of France that is home to 400 crocs. Wong said the observation deck on the Hancock Center has been part of the skyscraper since it was built 50 years ago. Most folks definitely grip the side rails hard at that point.” “It’s that equilibrium thing. The experience seems to have a lot more impact on people if you stop at 19 degrees for a few moments and then go on to the maximum. “We designed it so it doesn’t go all the way out to 30 degrees in one motion,” he said. The Tilt gets several thousand thrill-seeking visitors a day, according to Tony Wong, spokesman for 360 Chicago, the official name of the Hancock Center’s observation deck. I gripped the side rails harder, but experienced a brief feeling of falling and flying. Then it tilted again seven more degrees, which made my heart rise into my throat as it continued on to its scary, 30-degree maximum. ![]() Then it progressed another nine degrees, which at first I feared was the maximum lean. The window first tilted out 10 degrees and stopped. ![]() It certainly did to this writer on a recent visit to the Windy City to see a Cubs game and do some exploration. The number 30 is significant because it’s four degrees past the point of equilibrium - giving passengers at least a momentary sense of falling. Its observation deck offers views of four states, including Wisconsin.Īnd it bests the Willis Tower with Tilt, an eight-station, hydraulic window that leans out in three stages to a 30-degree angle from the building's 94th floor. Michigan Ave.) on the city’s Magnificent Mile is 100 stories tall and tops out at a respectable 1,128 feet. The John Hancock Center (now officially known as 875 N. The tallest is the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), which rises 1,450 feet and has four glass-bottomed ledges on its 103rd-floor Skydeck that jut out 4.3 feet from the structure and give the impression of standing in midair. Most of it sits on a smooth plain that was once the bottom of ancestral Lake Chicago.īut the Windy City has plenty of tall buildings, several of which climb more than a thousand feet above the surrounding metropolis and Lake Michigan. Watch Video: Visitors 'tilt' for views of ChicagoĬhicago’s topography is, in a word, flat. ![]()
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