Posted on 06/30/2021 11:47:01 PM PDT by blueplum
Water was filmed pouring from the ceiling of the doomed Miami condo and into its basement garage minutes before it collapsed - as the death toll from the disaster rose to 18.
The video was recorded at 1.18am on June 24 and zooms in on the entrance to the gated garage beneath the north side of Champlain Towers South - behind which water rains from the ceiling as if blasted from a fire hose. The building was reported to have crumbled at around 1.25am.
It emerged as six more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the ruined building on Wednesday, with Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava confirming that two of those bodies belonged to the disasters first child victims, aged four and 10.
The alarming footage was posted to TikTok by Adriana Sarmiento who told Chicago news station WLS-TV that she was on vacation with her husband and was swimming in hotel pool of the Bluegreen Vacations Solara Surfside Resort pool when she heard a noise and went to investigate.
She pulled out her phone
Sarmiento said she had tried to notify residents about the danger but they thought she was exaggerating because 'things like that don't happen in America.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It’s not a US source, so the story is much more likely to be true.
More ominous warnings that the building was coming down...so sad.
That appears to have been either a water main or a sprinkler main that broke prior to the collapse. If you consider this video in light of the statement of the lady who was able to get out after waking up to noise and finding her sliding door jammed shut it appears the building was settling prior to the collapse so new stresses were being placed on the concrete that was not elastic.
There has been enormous speculation about this event with some pretty crazy theories and a lot of talk about the superficial condition of the concrete at the base of the structure. However, what has not been talked about nearly as much that may be relevant is that this area is known for large shallow sinkholes.
What happened? Outside of the obvious catastrophic failure of the building’s structural core we do not know. The investigators will figure it out. NIST is a pretty sharp nerd herd with a history of solid failure analysis investigation.
The water pipe break was the collapse, the very beginning of it.
“The water pipe break was the collapse, the very beginning of it.”
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Yes, at or near the very beginning of the collapse.
A leaking water pipe (or a drainage pipe) over years can cause a sinkhole to happen in limestone. I have no idea if limestone is shallow or even present at the site.
I doubt that the sudden rush of water from the pipe was the cause of the collapse - it was just early evidence (by a few minutes) that something had gone wrong.
>> That appears to have been either a water main or a sprinkler main that broke prior to the collapse.
And that would definitely accelerate the structural failure.
Wouldn’t be surprised if exponential water seepage brought the wing down.
This video makes it less likely the pool deck collapse was the starting point of the failure.
The broken pipe did not cause any damage - it just made a mess.
The building is constructed to survive sustained 150 mph winds and torrential rain for one hour.
All the floors and the roof are poured concrete with rebar.
There are 18 inch poured concrete and rebar columns every 20-25 feet that extend from the lowest parking level straight up to the roof.
The building closest to the ocean that pancaked had at least 20 columns under it. How that structure just collapsed - how all 20 columns failed at the exact same moment - how it fell down in a perfectly straight line - is a mystery that no one has explained yet.
The swimming pool was intact and full of water during the first news chopper broadcasts at sunrise. However, a large section of the patio directly west of the pool did collapse.
Did the patio collapse before, during, or after the buildings collapsed? Currently unknown.
That video’s highly emotional too...
if you turn on the sound it’ll hit you hard if you understand the language. That looked like a broken pipe... a harbinger of the coming collapse. As other’s have pointed out something snapped that was loud enough to wake people up and come running out of the building next door with their cameras. Misaligned sliders that suddenly wouldnt close, water pipes torn open, appear to be warnings. Its easy to mask the tragedy of this event with technical speculations.
But translating at the end the lady says “awww they died... they all died my god...”
Hearing that sure cleared my eyes...
Wasn’t talking about just a broken pipe, but long-term water erosion — the kind that goes straight down. That said, you raised good points.
I haven’t made any conclusions.
Most likely a watermain break.
That’s how they fall....straight down. Gravity wins.
The first younger sounding woman is asking in Spanish....what what?
Last Is older woman...sobbing ..in Spanish ..
What can we or they do...”poderon” oh God oh God they are all dying...
Wet my eyes hearing her sob..can’t lie
The working theory is that the patio collapsed first. This is based on description by woman standing on her balcony, describing the collapse of the pool deck to her husband via phone, immediately before she fell to her death.
Here’s hoping that the 145 being reported as still missing are simply snowbirds who have returned to their homes in the north for the summer.........
sink holes will be the cause
An update to the article says the video was taken 7 minutes before the collapse.
Notify residents??
Did the witness call cops, firefighters, EMTs, anybody?
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