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I don't know much about concrete, but shouldn't there be some rebar in there?

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It's just lucky it happened when nobody was in the pool!

It looks like there's a tiny bit of rebar by the entrance, but nothing crossing the actual pool underside. Certainly nothing embedded in the edges.
 
Or entering/leaving the parking garage...

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It's just water. Hydrogen and Oxygen don't weigh much, so it follows that water would be about the same, right? Perfectly sensible load determination....
 
I've never seen a pool empty that quickly.

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Floor drains seemed to work pretty good, though...

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How'd you like to be driving up the ramp in that tsunami.

Yeah. More conduit there than bars.

How long did it hold out?

 
Guy in the reddit thread said it was built in 2018.
 
it was built in 2018.

The lack of obvious rebar sort of makes that moot; they were unlucky in that it didn't collapse immediately upon the first filling, but lucky that it broke when no one was in it and no one was in the immediate vicinity in the garage

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How did it survive the last 3 years... was this the first time it was filled? and good thing it was't full of people. I still don't see any reinforcing.

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