A powerful argument and an excellent discussion. While the Board may have been misinformed by consultant failures, the situation is not cut and dried. The Board had difficulty getting assessments approved, especially in the more recent years, which is why the estimated cost of repairs...
I understand your personal curiosity, but why does it matter to the survivors or the aggrieved families who recorded the video? Andy Slater is under no obligation to reveal his source, if he even has an identity, so you can’t get it out of him.
It would be great, as you said, to have plenty of...
I’ve been going through the presentations and recordings.
In relation to the Witness Statement Timeline, note that the crash at 1:10 AM is not called out in the NIST timeline, even though they are being very careful to keep their options open regarding the possible location (tower or deck)...
That won’t hold up. The Board was constantly thwarted by the condo owners themselves, who refused to support proposals to make necessary structural repairs. They only wanted to pay for a pretty lobby update. One of the previous Board presidents resigned, moved out, and sold her unit in disgust...
@Jeff Ostroff.
Thanks for calling out the timeline detail. I have been so busy renovating my 1903 house (which will definitely collapse in a major earthquake, because it’s full masonry) that I have been paying no attention to this topic.
I checked the timeline spreadsheet, and it looks like I...
The Miami Herald second anniversary articles. Titles followed by links to archived versions of the articles and a very high level summary.
Two years after Surfside condo collapse: ‘We haven’t recovered. Don’t forget about us’
https://archive.ph/uCWvm
Gabe Nir is struggling with PTSD.
‘How...
Thanks, Jeff. This is an easy one..
June 18, 2023
08:00 ET Submersible dives toward Titanic wreck located at a depth of 3,810 meters at 41°43′57” N 49°56′49” W
09:45 ET Submersible implodes at ~3,500 meters, failing both comm and tracking
Per James Cameron. https://youtu.be/LEBCc-Qpilw
Time...
Daily Mail and Palm Beach Post to the rescue!
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2021/07/26/surfside-condo-collapse-how-israeli-team-found-majority-victims/8021350002/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9738929/Israeli-commander-describes-harrowing-Florida-condo-rescue-operation.html
I wouldn’t demonize the HOA.
Remember that it was the owners who wanted the HOA to spend their money that way. The HOA was not some rogue group acting without restraint. They were acting on the wishes of the unit owners. One of the more recent HOA presidents was so horrified at the difficult...
In the third video, they talk about the contractor who did the calculations for the deck and say that they are still working on their calculations for the tower. In the slide it says “Tower work in progress.” So I think in six months we will see the results of those calculations and get more...
For anyone interested in NIST’s thoughts on a trigger for the collapse, there is a discussion at about 12:00 before the end of the last video. Gary says concrete failures are more like timber failures than steel failures. He doesn’t think a specific CTS failure trigger is likely to be...
Very early in their overview, NIST stated that they have to date found no CTS security cam equipment/videos.
Effort to date:
They explain the involvement of MDPD investigation as a “death investigation that could become a criminal investigation.”
The agenda has been updated with links to...
Tomorrow is the NIST meeting that will include their initial failure theory. ABC News published a piece on the proposed new building that includes a video retrospective that adds nothing of substance.
New condo tower could be built at site of Surfside condo collapse
Allyn Kilsheimer responds to an Iowa reporter. https://www.kcrg.com/video/2023/06/03/surfside-condo-collapse-structural-engineer-weighs-in-davenport-apartment-collapse/
Agreed. I still need to update the Detailed Data tab in the Timeline. Unless there are corrections, I am pretty sure I am finished updating the High Level Sequence tab.
