Recent content by Optical98

What I picked up on when Jeff posted the first photos of the shoring poles in the garage, is that most of them were under the Generator Room, which is right above the parking ramp. I was surprised there wasn't more discussion on that. When this collapse occurred everyone said the building...

Definitely could be connected to an exhaust fan >> NE corner shows an overturned fan in the grassy area.

Thermo No reason to stop the convo, please proceed. I'm not concerned about the 'mystery' posters, merely amused... as I'm sure the other 5 posters on this thread are.

Ahem...only "prolific" posts. Oh, wait where have I heard that term?

It's a decent theory, it holds more merit than the pool deck just collapsing on it's own one night. Are we certain all 3 of the 10.1 columns failed? I thought we'd found some of them (the bases) still upright in later analysis. Just something to double check on. I agree we need to tie it to...

I edited my post, check the pic and zoom in...there actually is a mark on it's fender. Can't say for certain what and when.... but it's there.

Sym P. le There were some posts about a Duramax possibly hitting a column, and I always thought they meant in the garage...but yeah, it could have hit that column from above as well. I'll look thru my pics to see if there's any that show the front right fender area of it. Zoom in>

Closer images, actually that looks to be a hard cover for the truck bed that's been dented in. But you can see the chaos of the planter box.

I remember asking that early on, I think even before we had the garage video. I think at the time I thought the wall was continuous, from the bottom and that the planter being pushed back or backed into could have dislodged the slab from the wall.

The wall behind the parking area showed damage on the opposite side as well.

So CTS felt they needed to relocate the majority of their parking and thus applied for a permit... as far as I remember there wasn't a number of spaces listed on the permit application. If it was only a limited number of spaces like CTN, they should have just bypassed the permitting process and...

Whoa just came across this lil gem - Engineering Catastrophes: Miami Condo Calamity Released January 26, 2022 Season 5 Episode 10 I just started watching it on Discovery+ Edit - 15 minute segment, nothing new... they only interviewed one former tenant from the West side of the building.

There's a few more details in this article - Showdown in Surfside collapse saga, involving federal agency, could delay trial for years Judge gave the parties 1 week to figure out evidence sharing...

Seems the Feds and the Miami Dade Police Dept suspect there's more to this event and they're wanting NIST to find that "needle" in the proverbial haystack.

bradw1128 Thanks for the inspection report, I was just watching a video of Mayor Ed Gainy (sp) speaking to reporters as he was given false information on that inspection date, he was told September of 2021. First he said he thought it was about 2 yrs ago...