No. That's not right.
The building fell down - ALL BY ITSELF - because it was not built right, it deteriorated, then it fell down and went "BOOM!"
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 ...
Pull a freaking fire alarm??
No. That's not right.
The building fell down - ALL BY ITSELF - because it was not built right, it deteriorated, then it fell down and went "BOOM!"
The collapse in progress broke the water pipe
“That appears to have been either a water main or a sprinkler main that broke prior to the collapse”
A sprinkler main break should have caused the fire alarm to sound.
Tunnels have been discovered under the building that collapsed.
Welcome to Biden's America.
Yeah, I saw those reports...and that’s bad reporting perhaps driven by a translation problem. Those are ‘debris tunnels’ or ‘voids’ that were created when the building fell. Probably not the kind of tunnel you and most other English-speakers think about when you hear the word ‘tunnel.’
Historically, when rescuers find people alive alive, it’s in these ‘debris voids’ that the people are found. So, when rescuers begin to find voids, hope increases at least temporarily.
It will cause an alarm if it is past the riser. There is a 8” main or so coming in from the street that is unmonitored except by the water meter. Once inside the building it may be above or below the ground.
A waterflow alarm should not be silenceable until the flow has stopped by code.
Did the patio collapse before, during, or after the buildings collapsed? Currently unknown.
Here is some I witness testimony from the article. The building was doing bad things before the pool desk collapsed.
“Sara Nir, another resident, told The Washington Post that she saw something similar. She first she heard a number of knocking sounds that grew more intense and eventually sounded like a wall falling down.
She then heard a large crash so went to the lobby with her two kids to ask a security guard what was going on.
She says that while in the lobby, she watched the pool deck implode on itself, falling onto the underground parking garage. The building started to fall and she and her kids ran for their lives. They all survived.
hottub looks emptied
Agreed
I will always be looking around when I enter a hi rise underground parking garage.
I worked on the 10th floor of a 20 story building for awhile once. I never liked it. I used to study out the windows and figure out which tree I could make for by flinging myself out the window in the event of a disaster.
I would expect by now that if competent, they have an fairly accurate guesstimate of who was in the building. Probably close to the 140 number still "missing". This will be a 100+ lives lost tragedy, like a catastrophic plane crash.
God pic and diagram of parking garage from Freeper rxsid. Inspector said the water was pooling in parking spot #78. Notice the cars have fell 4 feet, they should be sitting above the brown part of columns.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3971615/posts?page=75#75
Now they’ve stopped the rescue work because they fear the rest of the building might fall. They’ve noticed cracks 6 to 12 inches open up in a beam in the parking deck since last week.
I’ve seen this discussed. Amazing the structure above didn’t collapse as well.
That debris is pulverized along with anyone still in it.
Remember seeing those flashing lights as the building fell?
Maybe that was the fire alarm. Pipe snaps and set off the bells and strobes.
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