That's unfortunate the developer decided a fire in the garage wasn't worth waking everyone up for.
Since they sensors were only on the living space floors, it would indicate there were no collapses on the upper floors as have been suspected since a break in the fire lines up there would have...
At 0:09 I see 117 and 118 on the column for the parking slot markers. That would put this shot at the northernmost row of parking spaces (if the plans are correct) and the camera ends the shot looking east at the attempted rescue. So yes, if it hasn't moved the security office should have still...
Jbourne8,
My old eyes see what seems to be a slight pitch downward in that large, white pipe. Even if there is no slope, it looks more like a PVC drainpipe of some sort rather than a pressurized water line.
The south-pointing spray direction of the water in the TikTok video says to me it is...
Historical video footage of the crane collapse from 1980 during the South Tower construction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ9Jt1zPDMA
After taking note of:
- Where the Bluegreen Hotel is in these shots,
- The former parking lot where the crane was stationed,
- The location of the central...
Triggers aside, the most troubling aspect is how little warning there was that the building was in imminent danger of collapsing.
What was it? Perhaps at most 10 minutes between the calamity in the garage level and the rest of the collapse? Even the FIU bridge was waving its figurative arms...
That, and Retiredat46's close-up of those columns once again leaves me disquieted in regards to the column-deck connections in this building. And it wasn't even just the roof deck - it appears several upper floors cleaved away cleanly from an entire row of the columns during the demolition.
If...
Sadly, I fear the answer is they aren't, and the optics for that decision are going to be pretty bad - to say nothing of the optics of dropping the rest of the building on the undiscovered remains of the residents that didn't make it out. I hope I'm wrong though and something can be done.
The...
"Engineer brought in by Surfside says Champain Towers’ North, East condos are safe"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WqraSrYTs8
A peek into the current state of the North tower, which is in relatively good shape to my untrained eyes. It seems the eventual report will be just as much a tale of...
The current pool and spa design and layout are in some 1980 revisions of the original plans on pages 204 and 264. It appears when the 13th floor penthouse was shoehorned in, the finalized pool area design was ready.
The photos of the spalling around the pool equipment from the Miami Herald article linked above are now making the rounds on local and national TV news. I'm skeptical, however, that spalling on the "skimmer" part of the pool shell in an isolated corner of the property would be a factor in the...
There are other reports (which I can no longer remember where I saw them) from employees at the building that minutes before the collapse, they were seeing flooding in the bottom garage level where the valet parking was located. At first I thought it might have been from the main pool, but the...
A lot to unpack here...
Someone should investigate whether (in an attempt to appease today's multi-vehicle families) the parking structure was reconfigured from the original layout to pack more vehicles in, exceeding the original design's specs.
Even if it wasn't changed I have to believe the...
