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Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I just watched a YouTube about that condo collapse in Florida. People were point to cracks and spalling concrete for quite a while before it suddenly collapsed. 60 days before it fell an engineer came up with a plan to fix it but it fell before anything was done. That’s scary as shit.
I remember that happening. If memory serves, a father lost his whole family because he went out to grab something from the store for a birthday. when he came back everyone was crushed.
an investigation took place on all the buildings that the property management company owned and it was found half of their properties were in disrepair. one even had a rooftop pool that was leaking down in the parking garage basement. the cracks so big your finger could fit.
Holy shit, reading this gave me unreasonable anxiety. Thankfully, structural integrity of buildings is to be expected in Germany most of the time. Our bridges are shit but houses are fine
if our buildings give you anxiety wait until you see our bridges.
Yea thanks I’ll pass, jesus Christ 💀
Look up the story of the Citycorp Center in Manhattan; that’s always a fun one.
The engineer did the right thing though on that one. And they fixed it in place and created an evacuation plan if a hurricane had come.
No they did not do the right thing. The right thin would have been to come up with the plan to fix the whole thing immediately and then communicate it to potentially affected people and organizations, especially the employees working in that building or buildings that would be destroyed in a collapse.
It is completely unacceptable to omit life threatening danger from people and “face saving” and also likely “cost saving” by not having to rent other office space to stay in until the corrective measures were taken, were put over the life’s of thousands of people.
Yeah, I kinda agree. They got lucky. Thousands would have died regardless of the evacuation plan if the right conditions came up.
I mean, yeah, but they could have decided that the eventual fines would be cheaper than the emergency fixes and let it happen.
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That doesn’t sound sudden to me.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Hey, don’t you know how long it takes to get a building insured?
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It depends on where you draw the line of collapse. For me I’d say it kicks up a dust cloud. Everything else is just ‘falling apart’.