Miami Building Collapse

[clifford_thornton]

Tragic story -- coworker/friend's aunt lived in that building and the family cannot reach her. Very grim scene.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57606232

Hopefully no board members or their loved ones are in there.

[Dan Gould]

Sorry to  hear about your friend's aunt. Its truly horrific and I have to say that until I saw that article I hadn't appreciated how large a section had collapsed. I thought it extended about as far as the opposite side did. The surveillance camera footage is horrifying to watch ... and the way it came down in two sections makes me imagine that the victims in the first collapse never knew what happened but anyone in the second section would have been awakened to the incredible noise so close, wonder what happened before their section fell.

 

Tragic.

[mjazzg]

That footage is chilling

[Ken Dryden]

I am saddened by this unnecessary loss of life and damage. I grew up in South Florida and there are sections of Dade and Broward County that were reclaimed by digging canals. The single story home my parents built in 1962 was about 5 to 6 feet above the water line. It seems insane that anyone would build a high rise condo building on reclaimed marsh land, or that building codes allowed it to happen.

[Teasing the Korean]

4 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

...The single story home my parents built in 1962...

Was it a moderne ranch house?!?

[Ken Dryden]

Yes, for 1962… built on a concrete slab with cinder block walls.