51 unaccounted for, many feared dead after Miami-area condo implodes
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Geeko Sportivo
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I am waiting to hear from the two Florida Senators to see if they have changed their minds about the Infrastructure Bill now.
Here is the deal- If this happened to this building- how about the others around it? When are they going to fall?
It seems Florida is now in need of some serious Infrastructure money!
Here is the deal- If this happened to this building- how about the others around it? When are they going to fall?
It seems Florida is now in need of some serious Infrastructure money!
SmarterthanYou
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would the infrastructure bill have prevented this???????
Geeko Sportivo
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You think Biden's boondoggle would have prevented what happened in Surfside?
No! Wasn't saying anything about Biden saving the building from collapse!
It seems, Structural Engineers have been advising the city that the building was sitting over a sinkhole and could collapse at any minute for years!
So why did it come to this?
So you didn't post this?
Who told you that?
The condo tower, built in 1981, was undergoing its 40-year re-certification, and work was being done on the roof, said Surfside Commissioner Eliana Salzhauer. Building inspectors had visited the tower recently, she said.
Authorities said it was too soon to know what caused the 12-story, 40-year-old building to crumble, killing at least one person and likely dozens more.
Florida buildings are required to be re-certified for electrical and structural safety after 40 years, and the building had begun that process, said Walter Keller, a civil engineer and the town’s consultant planner.
Such a catastrophic building failure is highly unusual. Architectural authorities said the most similar failure might be the 1973 collapse of the Skyline Plaza tower in northern Virginia, which killed 14 people.
The building predates Florida’s most recent hurricane-building codes but was built to withstand major storms and other threats. Condo buildings are also typically constructed with redundancies so that the load is transferred if something fails, and so one weak link doesn’t cause a massive failure, said Kobi Karp, an architect who has done work in the area.
A 40-year-old building is relatively young, he said, and there are far older structures with the same materials along the coast.
“This is like a healthy 40-year-old man who is not drinking, not smoking, who all the sudden has a heart attack or aneurysm,” Mr. Karp said. Over the years, the building has undergone other upkeep, such as concrete restoration and routine repairs, he said. The engineering firm working on the building’s certification is now conferring with town officials to try to determine the causes, he said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/miami-area-condo-collapse-causes-massive-emergency-response-11624532492
Geeko Sportivo
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OK, I said Structural Engineer- OK it was a professor at a Florida University that warned the city and government officials!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...cture-had-been-sinking-into-earth/7778631002/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/miami-area-condo-collapse-causes-massive-emergency-response-11624532492[/QUOTE]
By whom, sugar baby?
Is that so, sugar baby? Cite the relevant code.
I'll understand if you can't, of course.
Miami-Dade county already does, sugar baby.
God damn, you're stupid, sugar baby.
Judging by your profile, you also need to lose weight if you expect to snare a sugar daddy.
From your source:
"Wdowinski said his research is not meant to suggest certainty about what caused the collapse."
It must suck to be so stupid. Does it cause you actual pain?
Did the building implode? I don’t think I’d use that term to describe what happened.
Obviously, imbecile.
Geeko Sportivo
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The verdict is already in!
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Is it?