Thursday, July 01, 2021
… experts expect investigators to look at a wide range of potential factors, including delays in acting on the consultant’s recommendations for repairs; design or construction flaws; any issues with subsurface soils; and the possibility that some outside force — a vehicle that struck a post in the underground parking garage, for example — could have affected a key structural component of the building.
Oh my goodness. That very possibility was raised by a very well-respected, well-known building engineer the day after the condo collapsed. As is being done here, it was just a "possibility" that the man (whose name, of course I have forgotten) raised, and I never heard it raised again, until tonight. The theory is consistent with residents like Margarita Champin in the last post, who heard a noise like an "explosion."...Wait, is it? People run into posts all the time, it doesn't sound like an explosion. No, the "explosion" had to be the start of the collapse, not a goddamned car hitting a post. Could the car have taken out the post? Nah-ah, I don't believe that. I don't know where the fuck this theory reasonably goes--you hit a post with your car in the garage and...?