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Spartan5 : said:warrenslo - the collapsed pool deck:
warrenslo said:111 seems to have escaped via the pool deck as he said he went outside to go investigate and he had direct access - if the pool deck had collapsed 1-story into the basement at this time then this wouldn't be possible.
111 who witnessed the progressive collapse of the pool deck said:”The first collapse happened, and me and my mom and sister went out," Nir told NBC 6 just hours after Champlain Towers South partially collapsed Thursday morning. "We see the collapse happening on the poolside and I saw a bunch of cars going inside the car garage, so I panicked, my mom panicked, everyone panicked."
warrenslo said:From 412's vantage point she wouldn't have seen the first collapse, her guest bedroom is in the way, only floors 9-12 in the x12 stack have a balcony viewing the initial collapse.
COLlive said:She returned to her home on Collins Avenue at around 12:30 AM. “I was sitting in the office, going through emails and the like, and I started hearing noises,” she told the COL news website.
Nir described the noises as sounding like “construction knocks” and was disturbed that they were being made at such a late hour, with her son and daughter fast asleep in nearby rooms.
“I thought someone had decided to renovate their apartment in the middle of the night,” she said. “At first, I ignored it. But a few minutes later I became upset about it and left the apartment.”
Nir says she went to the lobby of the building where she met the security guard sitting at the entrance. She reported about the noise and asked him to call the police to make a complaint.
What kind of failure are we looking at where the deck of the garage and pool has sheared more or less cleanly away from the columns?
“As I was standing in the lobby, I saw the parking lot of the building collapsing, like an abyss that has opened up beneath it,” she recalled. “I was in shock. My thought was that these (noises) are not renovations. This is an earthquake!”
She once again turned to the security guard and ask to call the police, this time reporting an earthquake. “There was a very loud noise,” she told him.
Nir then quickly returned to her condo and woke her 15-year-old and 25-year-old children (her husband and other children were out of town). She urged them to leave the house as fast as they could.
“We left the building Within a minute and started running down the street, as far as we could,” she said.
“I heard a huge noise behind me, but I didn’t want to turn around,” she added. “A huge cloud of dust flooded the space. I thought the end of the world had come.”