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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsphotos show the extent of damage in Miami building collapse
this first photo shows how the building pancaked.
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Lars39
(26,109 posts)Going to be huge casualties.
barbtries
(28,795 posts)the pictures remind me of the OKC bombing. smaller scale, but that's devastating.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)PortTack
(32,767 posts)woodsprite
(11,915 posts)in his Marine Studies class. Erosion was the first thing he said when I told him about the collapse.
Wicked Blue
(5,832 posts)Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,832 posts)but it might be a good idea, don't you think?
barbtries
(28,795 posts)wackadoo wabbit
(1,167 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)kentuck
(111,097 posts)Terrible.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)Ron Deathsentence never hears the end about this. Infrastructure package anyone??? Looks like a bomb hit it.
it looks horrible, those poor people.
drray23
(7,629 posts)It was an inside job by antifa or maybe the fbi. They bombed the building.
Zeitghost
(3,858 posts)Politicizing this tragedy is not healthy or good for our side. Congress passing or not passing an infrastructure bill has nothing to do with this and neither does the FL. Governor.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)It looks worse in those photos. Can't see all of on the television machine. All the best vibes being sent to victims and rescuers
I wonder if it was caused by that state's lack of safety regulations? I guessing Florida is a lot like tex-ASS.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Many live further north in the summer and Florida in the winter.
iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)This is absolutely horrifying. I don't normally go down that far, but work called and I needed to head down that way.
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)Last night it look like a wall pulled away and fell down, but looking at before and after shots, over 50% of the building is now flat.
iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)I watched that security camera video and the building collapsed in the middle first. Those poor people.
ffr
(22,670 posts)Million dollar views, now worthless, but you're alive and homeless.
Sogo
(4,986 posts)I would not feel comfortable at all about staying!
JHB
(37,160 posts)You'd be lucky for there to be any way to retrieve your belongings, much less stay there.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)wonder how many cars were lost.
I'd certainly want to drive mine out of there if I had to leave an intact unit.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)IcyPeas
(21,871 posts)Towlie
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They're to the north on the same side of Collins Avenue and look very similar, so I doubt those residents are very comfortable in their homes either. I'll bet we'll see property values plunge and banks getting stuck with mortgages as owners and tenants run for their lives.
alotus51
(33 posts)How long before they blame Obama ?
PurgedVoter
(2,218 posts)I am not seeing as much rebar or steel mesh in the concrete floors as I would expect. I am not seeing much in the way of vertical support. The inspectors need their financial records examined with a fine tooth comb. Concrete doesn't crumble like that if it is properly reinforced.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)Amishman
(5,557 posts)The cables are under a ton of tension, which increases the strength of the concrete.
If a cable fails, the strength of the structure is significantly reduced.
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)....suggest to our QAnon friends that Hillary's military wing dropped bombs on this Miami apartment building because it was headquarters for the planning of Trump's August inauguration.
tblue37
(65,358 posts)casualties in that building.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)onethatcares
(16,168 posts)connection between the building that collapsed and the one that's still standing. If the floors were pre stressed concrete slabs shouldn't they be connected by #5 or better rebar with the floors being staggered by half?
the shear wall on picture 1 shows what I'm asking.
Thanx.
If the floors were poured in place it seems there should have been even more rebar.