The swimming pool collapsed the parking garage, the inspector said the pool was in bad shape and installed wrong and would cost a lot to repair it correctly.
Watch this video which shows the building crumbling before it fell.
“ Mike, a political strategist, was on a business trip to Washington when Cassie called him at 1:30 in the morning, frantic that the building had shook. She was on the phone with him when she looked out the window and saw a sinkhole where the swimming pool had been. Then the line went dead.”
I saw live aerial shots of the damage at sunrise.
The pool was still there, with water in it, but the patio area between the pool and a small ground floor parking area had collapsed.
There was a two or three level underground parking garage below the residential section that collapsed.
The section that collapsed was about 100 feet north of the pool.
The pool area was built OVER the parking garage there had been many structural problems with the pool area, this is what caused the entire to fail!! There is ONE bearing wall that seems to have saved the rest of the structure from toppling that bearing wall is right where the break is!! I went to a site that has pictures of the damage under the pool in the parking garage looks like bearing bandaids were put there but the damage there was NOT GOOD!!