Genevieve Beauchemin has the latest from Florida, where a frantic search for survivors continues after a condo suddenly collapsed.
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So sad. Sending prayers to Miami.
Super helpful and meaningful🤭🤓🧐
Im sure they would thank you for the helpful prayers
It is not rising sea level. It is depletion of the fresh water limestone aquifer which intern can allow encroachment of saltwater.
Prayers to everyone! Tell your loved ones you love them!!!
I love you
I was thinking the building still standing but particularly collapsed was the was problem. But no, the problem was the building that fell right into its own footprint.
@Tiana Suadela They are not. thats controlled demolition
@Dylan McShane They actually are designed to fall straight down in the event of demolition. But if the building collapses on it’s own, it will fall straight down as well. Look at the World Trade Center for example, they fell straight down and that was not a controlled demolition. They were just designed to fall straight down.
@SledgeDragon If the building structurally fails it will pancake yes. And I can tell you that’s exactly what happened here. Why is the answer.
@SledgeDragon find me *one* video of a structually failing building looking like controlled demolition
@Hug With an H find me one video of a structually failing building looking like controlled demolition
It seems like there’s no one alive in that wreckage.
How could there be?
They went down very quickly
Concrete structure means there are bound to be cubby holes formed, which means possible survivors, sure hoping so anyways.
@David Gray absolutely terrifying..
Thanks for the rescuers, please, please don’t give up.
There was a huge department store collapsed in 1995 in South Korea and they still could find survivors after 17 days. Please please have hope and support the life savers who are working really hard.
Or they are all most likely dead. Especially the building. Poor building
Sampoong right?
Yes, prayers to those in need of rescue.
17 days without water? So-called experts say we can survive only 5 days without water
Who ever built that condominium is in for one hell of a lawsuit.
😢
So, 40 year old building. Currently undergoing certification. Big variable is if building is all rental or owners. If rental, definitely a suit of negligence/failure to conduct assessment earlier, especially if there is evidence it was delayed. Now, if it is individual owners/ a strata, the strata minutes may show the owners voting not to assess the building safety etc (expensive cost) earlier. So it’s going to be really really messy and sad either way.
they built it on top of the sinking garage
In the States they sue you if you spill a hot coffee on you while driving.
What’s going on in Maricopa?
Real tears for those lost. The World gets darker for those that shared in their lives. What’s with the bright spots while it collapsed?
smells like construction corruption
That could be a sinkhole which wasn’t deep but enough to bring that building down that is possible..
It is near the beach and deep deep under could be hollow..
no it was structural. bad build + high salt content in air rusts rebar faster. concrete slabs had no slope either which collected water and let it seep into the concrete, deteriorating it and compromising the strength if the rebar
from the structral forensics report
Could be the salt water erosion of the concrete..
Whoever was a part of building this is going to be in a massive lawsuit. Such a terrible tragedy.
imagine living in a condo in miami right now after seeing that
U betcha! And most of them are not missing. They are in there somewhere.
Rescuers have protective footwear yet the rescue dogs have to navigate through shards of broken glass, sharp debris and all sorts of dangerous stuff laying all over the place w/o protective booties? Rescue dogs deserve to be safe as well.
Reminds me of that one Battlefield 4 map with the apartment building collapse event.
What the hell? Who built it?!?
The neglect of capitalisms at its finest!
Did John McAfee own a condo in this building?