Posted on 06/25/2021 11:04:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A resident missing in the Surfside apartment collapse told her son the building was making loud “creaking noises” a day earlier, he said.
“She just told me she had woken up around 3, 4 in the morning and had heard like some creaking noises,” her son, Pablo Rodriguez, told CNN on Thursday after part of the 12-story building tumbled to the ground. “They were loud enough to wake her.”
“It was like a comment that she made offhand, like that’s why she woke up and she wasn’t able to go back to sleep afterwards,” he added. “Now, in hindsight, you always wonder.”
Both his mother and grandmother are missing.
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The question is usually whether it falls under any of the standard exceptions to the hearsay rule...
Distressing to learn that the tower on the east side went down ten seconds after the center segment went down. Many will be worried that one section is needed to stabilize other parts that can’t stand by themselves.
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With the absence of visible parking areas from satellite views, I suspect the lowest level was all parking. Pillar supports for at least one critical level. Take out one pillar and who knows what domino effect starts.
Be interesting to see building inspection reports, also to know of tenants/owners complained of things like door and/or window issues, cracks in the walls and/or foundation, elevator issues...
I’ll bet there were warning signs.
What is That?
Yah
There are three massive apt buildings smack dab over the on ramp to the outbound George Washington bridge. You drive under them as you go to the bridge. The steel pillars that apparently hold them up don’t look like much at all. They seem to be the only connection these monster buildings have with the ground.
Once they lay the deck steel down they thread a cable throughout the slab. The ends protrude from the building at each end. Once the slab is poured, and then cured, they put a hydraulic wench on the cables and put some tremendous amount of tension on the cables. You definitely don’t want to shoot a Hilti pin in one or core a hole through it. It’s like having a hand grenade go off.
And they know the sound of cheese plastic from almost any other sound
There are always warning signs.
On the morning of October 1, 1987, I noticed something odd when I fed my cat. Although she usually gobbled down her food, she only took a couple bites and then ran into the bushes. I went back inside, and about a minute later, a major earthquake struck. I figured she probably felt the P wave, the first seismic wave sent out at the start of an earthquake, which most humans don't feel. Maybe those animals felt something similar.
I can’t imagine living in your sad delusional brain
Did your back hole brain post that steaming pile?
What Are Threshold Building Inspectors?
Is this what the 2018 report was regarding, or something else?
It would be interesting to see all the city and county paperwork on this building...
The nose knows on a doggie!!
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