condo collapse vid

[The_Dude]

[Aerovette]

Sure looks like something blew up in the center near the top floor.

[Dan47]

Damn.

That's some third world shit.

[Old Ben]

Looks like a controlled demolition.

[Jeff '79]

Damn. Wrong place wrong time for a lot of people.

[Loco Vette]

Originally Posted by Old Ben

Looks like a controlled demolition.

Looks like it. Wasn't.

Deadly Condo Collapse in Miami

[Aerovette]

Lot going on in the red circle. White flashes, yellow-ish flashes.

[SilverBullitt]

Must be a world record for that many Clinton accusers to live the in the same building.

That is crazy to see. How could that happen without obvious signs of structual problems beforehand?

[ZipZap]

NFW that happens on its own.

[Jeff '79]

There was work being done on an adjacent building requiring footing work.
All it takes is a 5"-6" move in a wall for the rebar to be compromised.
I say a sink hole slowly compromised the structure.
If you look at the floor of the parking area, it is sunken in. That does not seem right to me.
The flashes previously mentioned were probably electric devices snapping.
What a way to go.
Being under that roof on the ground is not the place where anyone should be

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by Jeff '79

I say a sink hole slowly compromised the structure.

My first thought as well.

[RMVette]

Originally Posted by Old Ben

Looks like a controlled demolition.

Well I thought the same until I read the news feed on it.

[Aerovette]

In before all of the internet engineers claim that floors don't pancake.

Remember 9/11? Yeah, those same people said those floors didn't pancake either.

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by aerovette

Lot going on in the red circle. White flashes, yellow-ish flashes.

I think it's just lights going out. On the 2nd tower that falls, you can see a light near the upper floors, and before it falls, it goes down 2 levels, like the floor collapses before the walls did.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by datawiz

I think it's just lights going out. On the 2nd tower that falls, you can see a light near the upper floors, and before it falls, it goes down 2 levels, like the floor collapses before the walls did.

It was 2:00 AM. That looks like electrical flash or something. The yellowish lights, I would agree may be normal.

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by ZipZap

NFW that happens on its own.

You would be surprised. That building was built in 1981, so was 40 years old, right on the ocean. The salt air is extremely corrosive to the rebar in the concrete. One of the condos we were installing hurricane windows and doors into back in 2007 in Naples, had the entire extended lanais collapse on all floors on the ocean side.

[Torqaholic]

Yup, salt air is super hard on metal. When I lived on Hatteras every vehicle more than a few years old was a rolling heap of rust.

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by datawiz

You would be surprised. That building was built in 1981, so was 40 years old, right on the ocean. The salt air is extremely corrosive to the rebar in the concrete. One of the condos we were installing hurricane windows and doors into back in 2007 in Naples, had the entire extended lanais collapse on all floors on the ocean side.

Still thinking it had some help, like a sinkhole. Why so few casualties so far? Crap, in Cali, that would be 500 dead and 500 missing. Something is just not making sense.

[Wathen1955]

I second the salt air. I lived by the beach in San Diego for most of my 20's, and when I left in 79', my Chevy El Camino had already started to rot. I was within 1 mile from the beach.

A realtor also posted a YouTube video showing the condo's interior in June 2020:

YouTube (Short URL)

[Steve_R]

Originally Posted by ZipZap

Still thinking it had some help, like a sinkhole. Why so few casualties so far? Crap, in Cali, that would be 500 dead and 500 missing. Something is just not making sense.

Local news here says over 100 missing.

The flashes are most likely arc flashes when electric lines break or disconnect from HVAC and other equipment that’s hard wired.