Posted on 06/25/2021 9:05:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
There are now 159 people unaccounted for in the partial building collapse in Surfside, Fla., Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Friday — a rise from 99 people a day earlier.
Three more bodies were found in the rubble, bringing the number of fatalities so far to four. More than 100 people have already been accounted for.
"I want to be very clear about the numbers," Levine Cava said at a press conference Friday. "They're very fluid. We'll continue to update you as we have them."
"We will continue search and rescue because we still have hope that we will find people alive," Levine Cava said. "That is why we are using our dogs and our sonar and our cameras — everything possible to seek places where there may still be people to be found."
"As we work tirelessly and stand united — local municipal, county, state and now federal support — we are going to work as hard as we can to continue our search-and-rescue effort," Levine Cava said. "That is our priority, that is where we're focused and protecting our first responders who are on the scene."
She said that people evacuated from the building are being provided food, shelter, cash to assist with their basic needs and grief counseling at a family reunification center.
President Biden approved an emergency declaration on Friday morning authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief efforts.
The cause of the building's sudden collapse early Thursday morning remains unclear.
A reunification center has been established near the site of the building where families and friends await any news of their loved ones.
Climate change is causing the seas to rise which in turn caused shifting sands. Trump’s fault.
Yup,good thought...DiSantis had better gear up his PR people because,just as Coumo blamed Trump for every virus death in the country,Rat Party Headquarters will blame DiSantis for this.
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Here’s a better link. I don’t know what happened with the other one.
If true, I would assume, hundreds, if not, thousands of buildings would have collapsed over the years around the world. There’s another reason.
“Contractors have been known to cut corners. For example, specs call for iron reinforcing bars to be spaced 12 inches apart in the concrete. The contractor places them 18 inches apart instead, just to save a few bucks. No big deal, right? And no one will know anyway because the rebars will be covered with concrete.”
I’ve seen slabs where the subs got their inspection, the rebar was then picked up and moved to the next lot over while the first was poured. You could stick your hands in the cracks years later all the way to the cushion sand and not a single piece of rebar could be found.
You are right, but since the left will blame everything on me or my ancestors then I return the favor. Never let a crisis go to waste when you can blame a democrat.
In Hong Kong they replace the building every 40 to 50 years because they use Sea water to make the concrete. The salt corrodes the rebar.
It turns out that an identical sister building was built a few blocks north of this one. If I was a tenant, I'd be making plans to move.
Sadly, you can count the minutes on one hand before the democrats start to blame DeSantis.
RIP all the dead! -— Miami real estate has been booming. This will impact condo prices for sure. And this was an upper class condo that pancaked. You would have been safer living in Chicago, in the worst housing project..... And having to dodge occasional spray and pray gunfire.
Just dang
>>Wdowinski said his research found the building was sinking at a rate of about 2 millimeters a year
2mm per year is no where near an ‘alarming rate’.
Mexico city is sinking at 50X that rate, and has been for decades.
This college professor is just looking for his 15 minutes of fame.
The video I saw sure looked like an implosion, similar to when they implode old sports stadiums, etc...
Correct who was in the building? There is something that is being covered up in this situation. Many other buildings would be collapsing in Miami and across the country and the world if it was a structural failure.
Something is being covered up.
it was floating around yesterday that John McAfee’s father lived there
I think that is unlikely. Condos have a fairly high churn rate. Former owners and guests will comment on any weirdness with the building. Give it some time..
Simple, Gravity is constant.
Any degradation of the Structure is amplified over time. This entire incident could go back to the very first Concrete pour when the Building was erected.
In this case, the Building Design, Engineering Methods and Soil Conditions will come under scrutiny as well as a forensic study of the original Construction Materials.
Since part of the Building remains standing, it will give them an opportunity to conduct a “before and after” study.
I will assume that this will be a wakeup call for thorough inspections of every High Rise Building in Florida and a slew of new Building Codes.
All that being said, may the Victims of this tragedy Rest in Peace.
> I will assume that this will be a wakeup call for thorough inspections... <
While working for a (thankfully short) time as a construction laborer, I observed an electrical inspector examine a newly-installed circuit breaker box.
He when up to the box, slapped a sticker on it, then left. He didn’t even open the box. There could have been nothing in that box but a stale cookie for all he knew.
Might as well throw out my guess…inferior concrete (cement shorted to save money)…inadequate foundation design and/or placement…jacked slab construction?…several jacked slab buildings have collapsed in various places…white supremists…
“jacked slab construction?…several jacked slab buildings have collapsed in various places”.
Slab jacking is not a construction. It is a repair to a foundation that already has problems.
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