Problematic pool deck at collapsed
Florida building flagged 25 years ago
I corrected the Miami Herald with my own-found photographs on June 29 when the first sentence in their article was, "There was nothing unusual about the lobby and pool area."
It’s the pool stupid. It’s always been the pool!
Concerns over the stability of a cracked pool deck at the collapsed Florida condo building raised flags as far back as 25 years ago, according to a new report.
The pool deck at Champlain Tower South, now the focus of a probe into the deadly collapse in Surfside, had 500 cracks that needed to be sealed and a 20-square-foot slab that needed to be replaced during a 1996 inspection, the Miami Herald reportedTuesday.
“The scope of work will be concrete structural repair in the parking garage,” Rob Sommer of Western Waterproofing Company of America said in a March 1996 letter to Surfside building officials, the Herald said.
Okay, I, Benjamin Harris, Idiot Blogger, am going to take credit for being the firstest with the rightest on this and yinz who don’t like it can eat my teats.
At a time when all of the experts and the quasi-official media were focusing on the garage and crying “Truck hit a post in the garage!” “Maybe a DUI driver hit a post in the garage,” the undersigned Noted Idiot latched onto Cassandra Stratton’s phone call to her husband at 1:30 a.m. that the pool deck had just collapsed. Oh this is huge!” the above-described individualoid bolded and italicized on June 27, a mere three days after CTS pancaked.
I mocked the real experts on June 26, just two days after the collapse,
"This collapse is a classic column failure.Which means the building itself was supported by a series of pillars. If the pillars fail, everything fails," said Kit Miyamoto, a structural engineer and California Seismic Safety Commission chairman.
A "classic"! No doubt, right Kit? Not the concrete structural slab that the columns rest on, the columns themselves, like in a controlled demo. Case solv-ed.
I made fun of the New York Times:
“Respectfully, but I realize arrogantly, the Times is confused.”…“Omg Quasis. What do the "deeply buried" "vertical" "pilings" sit on that "the entire building" sits on, sand? You know better than that you just stick sticks of pilings into sand to support a twelve story structure, no, the pilings sit on the concrete structural slab. Come on now, pull yourselves together.” “ Another possibility is improperly installed piles, [Dusenberry] said.
😂 Alright Quasis.”
