Posted on 06/29/2021 11:24:14 AM PDT by rxsid
Survivor describes escape from Florida condo collapse: ‘I kept going, screaming ... I want to live’
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Monteagudo, 64, was asleep Thursday morning when a strange feeling woke her. “It’s like something supernatural woke me up. I felt something strange, and I thought, 'Oh, I forgot to close the sliding door to the balcony, and the wind is making the noise,’ ” she said. “I tried to close the sliding door, and it felt like the building was moving. The door wouldn’t close.”
Then Monteagudo heard a crack. There was a line in the wall coming down from the ceiling — about two fingers wide. “Then it started getting wider and wider as I watched,” she said. “Something said, you have to run. You have to run immediately.”
“I ran to my bedroom, and took off my robe and changed into any dress and any sandals. I ran to the dining room table, I got my purse and my credit cards. I took the key, I blew out the candle that I light every night for Guadalupe of Mexico,” she said. “I blew out the candle, just in case.”
Monteagudo ran to the stairs, descending quickly. Between the sixth and fourth floors, there was a noise — and she realized the building was falling. ... “I thought if it’s coming down, ... like a domino effect,” she said.
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When Monteagudo finally escaped from a door, there was water up to her ankles, and cables floating in it. She ran into a security guard. “He told me, ‘Mama, mama, let’s go, this is an earthquake,’ ” Monteagudo said. “I said, ‘No, it’s not an earthquake, it’s the building falling down.’
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“I lost everything,
, woman who lived across the hall, disappeared. She hasn’t been found,”
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1. She woke up to feeling something strange.
2. Got up, went to other room. Tried to close the sliding door, but couldn't.
3. Heard a crack.
4. Saw a "2 fingers wide" line in the wall coming down from the ceiling, which got wider as she looked at it.
5.Ran back to bedroom, changed clothes.
6. Ran to dining room to grab purse and credit cards.
7. Took time to blow out a candle.
8. Ran to the stairs to descend.
9. She hears a noise when she's between 6th and 4th floors. Believes the building is falling.
10. Afterwards, says she lost everything - indicating her unit, No. 611, was destroyed in the collapse.
If her account is true, all of that transpired during several minutes. Perhaps as much as 5 to 10 minutes.
This means, the collapse was NOT "sudden" or even close to sudden.
Especially considering how long it takes a woman to get dressed.
The collapse was sudden; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR29pLccutY
Sounds alot like an escape from NYC
Like the onset of hyper inflation, some things start out slow but continue to accelerate.
I’ve watched two different videos. I’m guessing she was in the second section to fall. The center section just went all at once and probably weakened the other section a lot causing the cracks and noises.
It’s sad hers is the only account we’ve heard of somebody fleeing the pending disaster. Did other people just hunker down in their units thinking that was the safe thing to do?
I would have headed for the exit in my robe and left the candle burning. She wasted precious time changing clothes.
This wasn't a sudden event.
What you are seeing in that video is the final collapse. Several residents who escaped reporting hearing loud noises for several minutes before. She may have also been in the section that collapsed after the first.
If I thought the building was coming down, I would not stop to change out of my bathrobe.
She’s fortunate to have survived it what with all the time she wasted with non-essentials.
She should have just FLED !
Those side trips could have cost her her life !
Correct the building started waking people up at least 15 minutes before falling.
“Willis’ dad, Albert Aguero, said he woke up around 1:15 a.m. and felt the building shaking and the walls moving.
I can't tell definitively from these photos of the unit when it was for sale...but the views look like they are from the 1st section to go down.
Wow. What a stupid comment.
No,
“Willis’ dad, Albert Aguero, said he woke up around 1:15 a.m. and felt the building shaking and the walls moving.“
Building fell at 1:30 a.m.
It’s a wonder she didn’t burn the building down at some point.
Wow. Who crapped on your corn flakes this morning?
I believe her account. And no, it shouldn’t take her 5 minutes to change out of a robe and throw on a dress and shoes. I see nothing incredible about her story.
I think she was seeing the final cracking occurring before anything fell.
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