Florida building collapse

[Aimless]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/u...-collapse.html

4 dead, 150+ unaccounted for.

Perhaps related to structural damage identified in 2018 that hadn't yet been addressed 3 years later:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/u...stigation.html

[RandBlade]

Absolutely horrific.

Like a scene of Grey's Anatomy come to life, right down to the neglect of not repairing known structural damage. https://greysanatomy.fandom.com/wiki...Done_Nothin%27

This sort of crap shouldn't happen and should be unbelievable scenes of fiction, not happening in the real world. Horrifying that it can. Sympathies for everyone affected but it seems like the count of people missing is only going up not down.

[Being]

Absolutely horrific.

This sort of crap shouldn't happen

This sort of thing is not all that unusual in third world countries such as ours.

[Dreadnaught]

Oh man I just saw the security cam footage of this

Many of us live in buildings that are the end result of centuries of accumulated expertise...but also use techniques (like rebar in concrete) that are relatively new.

[GGT]

Oh man I just saw the security cam footage of this

Many of us live in buildings that are the end result of centuries of accumulated expertise...but also use techniques (like rebar in concrete) that are relatively new.

Yeah, but special building requirements for Florida have been known for decades. Not just for concrete rebar and water-proofing, but hurricane winds and floods. It's basically a limestone swamp land that's been infilled to create beach-side Real Estate and Disney theme parks. Attracting tourists and retirees for profits, with no state income tax to offset their costs.

Florida is also a (R) state that generally eschews gummint Regulations. That gives any RE developer, condo HOA or board of directors more power than the city/county/state. And now FEMA and the federal gummint has to step in for another local Floridian disaster. YeeHaw Capitalism!

[GGT]

This sort of thing is not all that unusual in third world countries such as ours.

The myth of American Exceptionalism continues....