Man-Made Disasters

[tek]

https:// mobile.twitter.com/wsvn/status/1408054046808805379

Seeing other images of the collapse this video clip does not match by the size of collapse.

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[tek]

I think the building in the foreground of the video is 8701 Collins, looks like the right geometry

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[Slim Cognito]

I'm not saying it's a sinkhole but right after we moved to SWFL, part of a house up in Tampa got swallowed up by a sinkhole with a guy. They could hear him down there yelling...for a little while. They were unable to rescue him. I don't think they were even able to recovery the body. He was buried alive. Still makes me shiver. Florida bedrock is limestone, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Probably bad construction but I thought I'd mention it.

[MN-Skeptic]

Building close to the water is not a recent phenomenon. Either you have a building code in place to ensure safe buildings are built, or you do not allow buildings in that area. If the building code was sufficient, then you have to question the builders' adherence to that code.

(Just my personal opinion. This is not my area of expertise by any means.)

[RTH10260]

https:// mobile.twitter.com/wsvn/status/1408054046808805379

Seeing other images of the collapse this video clip does not match by the size of collapse.

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Hmmm - camera would have been top left of this picture pair. The last part of the building to collapse looked very narrow in camera view, that why I doubted the video.

[zekeb]

It makes me wonder how much of Miami would turn into a cloud of dust if there were a minor earthquake.

[Estiveo]

With liquefaction it'd all prolly sink into the mire.

[neonzx]

Official says 51 unaccounted for following Miami-area building collapse, 1 confirmed dead

https://www.fox4now.com/news/national/m ... ounted-for

[raison de arizona]

WaPo just reported 99 missing. I wonder how many are snowbirds though? A lot, I hope.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... iami-dade/

[neonzx]

WaPo just reported 99 missing. I wonder how many are snowbirds though? A lot, I hope.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... iami-dade/

Unfortunately, I don't think there will be many (if any) snowbirds in that total. I'm assuming the condo association keeps track when residents fly north for the summer and their unit is vacant. This is turning from a rescue to a recovery operation. Very tragic.

[Jim]

Not sure if posted...video of the collapse.

[Uninformed]

Don’t remember seeing a building collapse that looked so much like a demolition. I suppose the conspiracy loons are already at work.

[Volkonski]

Building determined to be unstable a year ago.

[filly]

Wow, a year ago?

[neonzx]

A researcher at Florida International University said the building was constructed on reclaimed wetlands and was determined to be unstable a year ago.

The building was sinking at a rate of about 2 millimeters a year in the 1990s, and the sinking could have slowed or accelerated in the time since, according to a 2020 study conducted by Shimon Wdowinski, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Florida International University.

“I looked at this morning and said ‘Oh my god.’ We did detect that,” he said of the Champlain Towers South.

The level of subsidence observed in the 1990s can results in impacts to buildings and their structures, such as cracked walls or shifting foundations, Wdowinski said.

[RTH10260]

in https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/24 ... g-collapse

Officials have accounted for 102 people who lived in the building, but 99 people remained unaccounted for by midafternoon, said Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of Miami-Dade County.

The way the rubble pile looks the building collapsed neatly unto itself. Not much chance that anyone would not be squashed by the floot/ceilings.

[John Thomas8]

Sportsballers stepping up:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/317 ... pses-miami

The Heat weren't the only Miami-based professional sports franchise to offer help. The Miami Marlins announced that they sent three vans filled with meals and water for rescue workers and essential items for residents displaced by the collapse.

[Kendra]

Had to watch a bit of Fox & Friends to see how they're reporting it. So far not blaming it on Biden, the radical left democrats or the illegal immigrants. I give it a few days.

/sarcasm

They conditions the rescuers are having to work in now. Rain, and really windy this morning. All that heavy gear in all that heat and humidity.

[Lani]

Latest report - 159 residents cannot not be accounted.

[RTH10260]

same as Lani, but have link to NYT continuous reporting page

Rescue Efforts Continue at Condo Collapse Near Miami
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of Miami-Dade County said three bodies had been pulled from the rubble overnight, bringing the known death toll to four. She said 159 people remained unaccounted for.


more at https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/25 ... g-collapse

[Liz]

Republican/DeSantis infrastructure plan.

[RTH10260]

DeSantis Republican emergency worker toolset



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[MsDaisy]

Listening to interviews with folks desperate to find loved ones in this disaster is just gut wrenching

[Kendra]

Listening to interviews with folks desperate to find loved ones in this disaster is just gut wrenching

Yes. CNN had a lady on this morning that was close friends with a mother and her daughter. She's been texting and calling since she heard, phone goes straight to V/M.

Looking at the work involved going through the rubble and the huge danger to the rescuers with all that debris hanging over them. So dangerous.

[Volkonski]

So sad.