Post #1291677
2026-02-26 00:38 UTC
@raymierussell In 1991 there were essentially no tourists in Wuhan and the tower was... just there. It had opened in the late 80s, so it was still brand new and one could go up to the observatory at 220m.
So it happened that I was alone with the elevator attendant going up and we got stuck at about 200m up. The door opened to blank concrete. 😅
The attendant had a radio and she called down to the staff, and - I guess - they replaced the fuse that had blown. Maybe 15 minutes? Felt like hours.
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@raymierussell@mastodon.scot 2026-02-26 00:48
@tsturm ooft, the stuff of nightmares. The lift in my building was replaced about 8 years ago. When previous lift was getting beyond repair because it over 50 years old it would occasionally overshoot the floor it was going to when going up. I would press for floor 2 and would slow down at my floor but not quite stop and creep slowly up to the 4th floor where it would stop. You would then have to press for floor 2 again and it would go down and stop fine.