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insomniasexx · 4320 days ago · link · · parent · post: The 41-hour Smoke Break (The Lives of Elevators)
Longest most terrifying sentence ever. Flying UP at 60 mph now scares me more than free falling. Wonderful.Trying to run in through closing doors is asking for trouble; so is climbing up into an elevator car, or down out of one, when it is stuck between floors, or letting a piece of equipment get lodged in the brake, as happened to a service elevator at 5 Times Square, in Manhattan, four years ago, causing the counterweight to plummet (the counterweight, which aids an elevator’s rise and slows its descent, is typically forty per cent heavier than an empty car) and the elevator to shoot up, at sixty miles an hour, into the beams at the top of the shaft, killing the attendant inside.