Apartment building collapse in Florida

[eharding]

BBC reporting Miami building collapse: Rescuers search rubble for survivors

Very nasty - more something you might expect in China rather than the US. Previously undiscovered sinkhole - I didn't think Miami was as vulnerable as other parts of Florida, but apparently they do occur - or maintenance work gone wrong?

[joshleb]

Wow, as bad as that is, most of the structure appears to be standing still, very impressive!

Hope they find more survivors!

[Russ35]

Video of the collapse on this guys twitter feed. Comes down in 2 sections.

https://twitter.com/AndySlater

[Matt Harper]

Surfside FL is oceanfront - on a barrier island, so effectively a compacted sand-bar. Something in the underlying geology has moved.
Terrible situation with potentially 50 lives lost.

[SpeckledJim]

Terrifying. If there was nothing wrong with the structure itself, what's that going to do to the rest of the neighbourhood?

Who'd live in one of those, now?

[joshleb]

joshleb said:

Wow, as bad as that is, most of the structure appears to be standing still, very impressive!

Hope they find more survivors!

I take this quote back after seeing the video, hadn't appreciated the extent of collapse from the BBC article!

[B235r]

Russ35 said:

Video of the collapse on this guys twitter feed. Comes down in 2 sections.

https://twitter.com/AndySlater

Ooof

[zygalski]

Matt Harper said:

Surfside FL is oceanfront - on a barrier island, so effectively a compacted sand-bar. Something in the underlying geology has moved.
Terrible situation with potentially 50 lives lost.

Can you imagine living in a similar property in that area after that? I’d be stting myself to sleep each night.

[Saleen836]

It seems the problems started 30 years ago!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/collapsed-miami-...

[pquinn]

Looks like a pretty crappy structure, not a lot of steel in the concrete and looks like not a lot of ties between columns and decks if the ground floor slab failure is a guide.

[ninja-lewis]

Grim. 159 still unaccounted for.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-5760623...

[Saleen836]

First lawsuit has been filed...
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/06/25/firs...

[jbswagger]

Report warns of damage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-5762177...

[MidlandsBoy]

Seems like there was no shortage of warnings. This one just a few days prior to the collapse.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/29/contractor-photograp...

[Murph7355]

I read the reports on the 2018 reports of the condition of the place...and the views of how it collapsed.

Possibly easy to stitch such things together after the fact, and maybe the people writing the report should have been stronger in the language/advice given...but I can imagine law suits are going to get very messy and some people in positions of responsibility will be very twitchy now (and rightly so).

[Fundoreen]

lots of warnings about the deteriorating building , or so we are told.
Lets go where the building industry doesn't want to go. Was this a similar situation to the UK one with cladding and who is going to pay to have it removed.
Were the occupants in florida told they had to pay for the repairs while the building owners tried their best to avoid the same.

[zygalski]

Don't do today what you can put off until tomorrow
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Lessons learned

Repeat until fade.

[Mr Pointy]

Looking at the Google satellite view there seems to be an exact replica block slighlty North - I wonder if thathas the same issues & if everyone has been moved out?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/miami+champla...

[Terminator X]

Horrific. Absolute nightmare of mine would be to survive that and then be trapped in among the debris perhaps never to be found.

TX.

[MidlandsBoy]

Mr Pointy said:

Looking at the Google satellite view there seems to be an exact replica block slighlty North - I wonder if thathas the same issues & if everyone has been moved out?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/miami+champla...

I understand the owners built three similar buildings at about the same time. One would think it might be now be hard to sell units in those buildings.