News outlets look forward to events like these.

You should take that as a lesson when it comes to everything concerning the news, the days of reporters and news teams getting their facts straight before reporting on something are over, especially concerning politics, they're even worse in that area because they're flagrantly biased when it comes to that, every media outlet has it's political agenda in this day and age and that is what's turned them into advocates instead of reporters like they were years ago.

agree

Says things about CNN, doesn't it? Horrible that this happened.

@@valkilmer6379 They do indeed.

Some of the support beams for the structure still standing have temporary supports to help the first responders sift through the rubble. I'm afraid that this is like the World Trade Towers on 9/11, only on a smaller scale. I doubt anyone is still alive after all this time, unfortunately.

@@Steve_in_NJ On the positive side working faster probably wouldn't have saved any more lives

Agree with you 💯🧡.

If it's the deck that took down the other columns, but not these, then there's probably no reason for them to fall now. And that's how it should be. The other ones shouldn't have come down either

I think what remains is fairly stable I don't think it's going any place

Your simulation shows a key issue about the building’s original construction, however doesn’t focus on the columns!! The columns under the portion of the tower that first fell and the pool deck look to be close to half the size and strength of the columns under the part of the building that survived the initial collapse.

You're a building engineer, and you didn't understand what it happened? Lord help us!!!!

@@bdom7744 oh you’re right, I should have been able to guess accurately. I wish I was I as smart as you.

@@bdom7744 Lord help us from myopic comments like yours.

Your remark supposes that there is a single answer why this collapse happened.and that an engineer ought to be able to figure it out just by looking at the pictures. In fact there are multiple possibilities and it would be irresponsible to issue a verdict without careful examination of all the evidence, much of which cannot be determined by observation, such as the type and strength of the concrete used.

Unless it's a california earthquake or mud slide or wild fire. Money can't protect that.

@@JohnSmith-uy7sv I may be mistaken, but I believe California building codes take earthquakes into account, and must comply to that standard. It’s a well known issue, I would be surprised if they didn’t.

@@Doomgath And when the ground turns to jelly from the vibration, nothing can stand in jelly. I forget the terminology for it . Liquification maybe. The ground becomes like liquid from the violent shaking. Only a ship can float in that. Not a building.

@@Doomgath What is liquefaction example? Liquefaction takes place when loosely packed, water-logged sediments at or near the ground surface lose their strength in response to strong ground shaking. ... For example, the 1964 Niigata earthquake caused widespread liquefaction in Niigata, Japan which destroyed many buildings.

It seems that building codes in Forida shoud be revised, at least to counter in corrosion

Hey Gary. Fancy meeting you here. I appreciate the compliment. Im so curious to know the proven cause but that will take a while. I think there is an excellent chance they will uncover some clear clues in the rubble when the get to the 4 critical columns.

@@Mike-Bell I was kind of wondering if it might not be some kind of punching shear failure when they said the building had been settling over the years. If some parts of the building settle more than others, that would increase the axial load (and therefore also the punching shear) on the columns which have settled less. Then I read that there had been problems with rebar corrosion, and that the collapse seemed to happen in the pool area first. I'd been struggling to figure out how an initial collapse in the pool area (outside the building footprint) could cause the whole building to come down. When I saw your animation, and the actual photos of the columns punched through the slab, I thought 'ah, that makes sense'. I hope all is well your side, and that your mom is doing well.

@@garymostert4811 If you look closely at pics of the rebar of the punch shear columns it has been commented how woefully little steel is visible. this comment on reddit is pertient... I design these kinds of buildings for a living. This building would not meet modern codes, and just simply wouldn't be built this way today. The columns are extremely small ( And packed with steel, 8 #11 on a 16X16 column is absurd), the slabs are fairly thin for a conventional reinforced slab. I imagine the slabs were designed to razor thin margins even by that times codes. I don't think there was any shear reinforcement at the slab column joint either, which makes a punching shear failure more catastrophic. If built by modern standards the building would have surely had more shear walls on the south end. These would have helped stabilize the building laterally and helped keep the south portion from collapsing long enough for evacuation to occur. www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/ocv4rv/simulation_of_surfside_condo_collapse_catenary/

@@Mike-Bell Sorry to step in while the experts are doing such a good job, but two things I'd like to comment on (and I'm no expert). First, my first thought on seeing the pictures the day of the collapse was that compared to other building destroying disasters (earthquakes come to mind), these pictures seem to show a woefully inadequate amount of steel within the concrete. Second, I too wondered how a pool "outside the building footprint" could bring this tower down -- my current way of thinking of it (with the help of your video) is that it's only "outside the building footprint" until you look at it from the perspective of the parking structure. Then it's all within the footprint (reminds me a little of Wacker Drive in Chicago in that regards).

Fascinating and depressing that apparently some archects 'don't' have as good an understanding of structures, as a total outsider, I'd have assumed they all did.

Me too thank you

How about you look into Paraguays connection to Covid and this building This dude gets paid to lie to you

This is a hypothesis of what happened. It’s not confirmed.

I agree, Tina! It's good too see they are already taking action at other locations for the safety of residents. Unfortunately, looks like hurricane is heading there, as we speak.

@@TheSterlingArcher16 looking at the photos and this simulation i would say it is pretty close .

Sometimes it pays to be stupid

Stupidity is essential trait for survival or early men would have eradicated themselves back then

Wasn't stupidity but grace. She was a devotee of Our Lady of Guadelupe and our Lady interceded to the Lord for her benefit. Part of this involved blinding her to the fact that there were stairs literally 2 doors down, yet she knew about the ones at the other end of the building. Just one moment seeing a person go in or out that stair door, during the 10 months she'd live there, she would have know they were there, taken them, and been killed. And no human would have foreknown for those 10 months, that it would be the other section of the building to survive. If you read the story with a sympathetic eye - or even a mildly skeptical one - and think about it - it's clearly miraculous. So here is the advice, Grace is better to have than intelligence or stupidity. Or be a sukka and think it was somehow all luck. Pretty strong message there.

@@albud6687 sugarcoat it however you wish. Ignorance is bliss.

@@dumptruckintruthduke .just to be clear..she was going to take the stairs next to the elevator

I highly doubt that story considering the time the collapse occurred.

@@lucreciaguaba7639 It's true. There are a number of sites reporting this.

@@lucreciaguaba7639 if you listen to other survivors there appeared to be about 2-3 minutes of trembling, shaking before collapse, tragically

@@lucreciaguaba7639 It is a true story, she was in unit 412, which is located in the last part of the building to collapse. She must have heard the pool deck initially collapsing, which was at least 7 minutes before the first part of the building collapsed. The story was accurate to what we now suspect failed first, every reason to believe its true, why would her husband lie?

@@lucreciaguaba7639 she was talking with her husband on the celly standing on the balcony

Indeed!

I hope I go out in my sleep when it's my time. Being asleep was a small blessing to those people.

Absolutely, this is really good I still just cannot believe this happened

Totally agree. Best simulation video on the web. Thank you.

EXCELENTE!!!!

I thought it was jet fuel.

@@silvermediastudio Naw it was probably an eight hundred pound gorilla that took the elevator and tipped it over 😂

Yes, at that point I too was convinced that's what drive it home.

......almost looked like ah planned implosion

@@hawkeye1836 No it doesn't.

@@LisaBowers Lisa, "I didn't say it was" I've watched a lot of implosions, and talk to the operators, they all say, "if their lucky it will come straight down", like the Georgia Dome, it didn't all come down, they had to risk doing parts over.

@@hawkeye1836 no it doesn't. There's no conspiracy theories that apply here and I almost feel like it's disrespectful to the families and the victims for people to even suggest such a thing.

I keep thinking about that. Scared to death from the noise then bam....a nightmare. Hopefully it was fast.

Dying from cancer is a slower more painful death. Believe it or not but some deaths happen faster than pain setting into the body.

@@jasinbiggs7189 no one ever said people don’t die.

Man i dont even wanna think about that, but rip to all those that died, and my condolences to those who lost someone .

Bad time to be on the toilet taking a dump

Wow, thanks!

I wasn’t there so I don’t know the entire (her) situation but You know what would have been lucky? If she did two things. She could have pulled a fire alarm to wake residents and called 911 to explain what she saw. That would have given approximately 40 minutes for people to be evacuated.

@@robertcarraway3641 Somebody had a 40 minute head start and did nothing to warn others? Wow.

@@libenasukro Yah the ground floor resident that is mentioned saw the damage and left. I think it was also her who heard loud bangs. It think she fled at around 12:45 am and the building came down about an hour later. There were also people from a neighboring building that saw debris in the garage before the total collapse.

Can’t blame her. She had no idea it would be that bad.

@@little-rascal If it's bad enough to make you leave, then do whatever you can to warn others (i.e.-fire alarm).

Since we had a big earthquake followed by other 4000 ones here in my city, in Albania from 2019 - 2020, buildings collapsed and almost every house or building were damaged, I've read and followed many documentaries about building failure to prepere for the next one or any possible building failure. We have similar ground to Miami, a swampy one near the sea. By what i learned so far, in big structures like this, if no earthquake is involved, it doesn't happen out of the blue. There must have been cracks in the columns or walls, the ground level, down in the garage. People need to pay attention to their buildings, especially near the sea where's underground erosion.

@@freespiritable You are correct. I read that everything you wrote is accurate, there are pictures and videos showing the damage to the building prior to the collapse. A report written in 2018 mentioned the damages, The building inspector made notes stating “ major structural damage”. We can all learn from this and perhaps like you prepare for major earth changes and hopefully save others.

@kiki Building Integrity a KZfaq channel , shows you how to identify the issues , using pictures from this actual building , prior to the collapse. Both channels have been extremely helpful.

@@tonyaanderson311 thanks dear. Your suggestion is very helpful. Best wishes

I'm amazed 3 are still alive. I wonder how the mother and daughter are doing after having surgery. I haven't heard it mentioned

They probably already have, the bastards.

Watermarks are the worst, they ruin television and youtube.

@@thewhitemustang Sorry that thieves are ruining it for you, too. I don't blame content creators for attempting to protect their content.

@@thewhitemustang What really ruins it are the people who steal and make watermarks necessary.

Where do you think he got it? j/k

The entire structure isn't held up just by those columns, but if you remove them, the structure will take itself down for obvious reasons.

@@libenasukro but those sheer weight pressing on top of those gave it away... it was literally supporting it.

Generally that one deck slab you are referring to that divides the sub to the super structure is appointed as a transfer plate. The layout of the carpark and the dwellings above are considerably different. That being said transfer plates can take many form at many levels pending the design of the structure as a whole. If the video is correct in its theory of punching, then id say the design or construction or both were inefficient. Could have been below the basement as well, ie the footing systems causing settlement differentially loading other areas past their limits. I doubt the loading of the building was in excess although it could have contributed to the above factors. There may also have been load additions to the building that may not have been factored well. The structural engineers/ builder and owner of the building will have some idea of the reasons, 100%.

2 major design mistakes. (1) hooking the deck to the middle of columns, not continuous with a slab on the other side, guarantees this situation buckles them. (2) Having the exterior, optional, feature-recreational surface slab - its concrete exposed to the elements fully even more than the roof - poured and rebar'd into the main tower columns. A fix would require separate abutting columns or a plate/sill on the main columns (making them double wide). Expect new codes to mitigate these issues. (1) is the most glaringly obvious problem. I might not have caught it but if a senior engineer n the company reviewed the drawings, no way they'd miss that.

@@albud6687 Totally agree, its seems as you enter the building you go up a 6-7 steps before you reach ground level. Having the deck slab & the ground floor slab of the building contributed to the buckling. I agree with you there should of been separate columns abutting the building columns. This would of prevented the collapse of the building. This clip clearly demonstrates my own thinking of the failure modes, its great really. So there is clearly a design flaw. It goes without saying had the waterproofing been maintained then it would of never happened but really one shouldnt be relying on the upkeep of the waterproofing system.

Thanks. Glad it helped

I agree

It’s not his original idea, it’s another guy who is the genius. I’ll attach link to him.

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@@Mike-Bell kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtuqdrSgqJeldmQ.html

I wouldn't go back into that building. Who knows what else is rusted and decayed?

@@shane99ca even if the authorities let you, would really want to get back into the remaining section of building to retrieve possessions?

@@IAMPLEDGE i Personally do not think the standing part of the building is at serious risk of collapse. All its columns are straight and functioning. Albeit this is just my couchside take

The elevator shear wall saved their lives

@@IAMPLEDGE I'd go in for my pets. There are at least two cats trapped in that section. I'd probably grab my laptop, important papers and cash if I could. Yes, I'm stupid and material I guess.

Oh what’s up, love your vids, and the Supra

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Slabs are routinely flat on top because it is much less fuss and quicker. The slope is achieve thru tapered topping. The issue is to not let the topping get too thick which is done with more frequent outlets. The sloped topping is visible is visible in fotos of the failed pool deck and the topping is pretty thick in parts. Morabito has created a misconception with this statement. There were extensive stalactites of the garage ceiling but this was due to non maintained and failed waterproofing. Not because the deck was flat.

Newer buildings have already been built stronger than this. At the time though this style was common in multiple cities across the United States. Although that doesn't mean other buildings of this style are going to collapse because it all depends on environmental elements. Climate change will cause much more damage to cities on the coast especially those in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas due to the effects of hurricanes and the rising water. Already there are multiple areas of Miami where sea water comes up from the ground. You'd think it had just rained and move along until you get told it didn't rain at all and the water is standing.

@@RandomMichiganGuy This seems to have been a first in terms of various factors. The waterproofing wasn't kept up, and some areas weren't pitches enough to disperse standing water. I imagine this will refine future building codes

@@RandomMichiganGuy This has zero to do with climate change. There were structural issues that were brought to light years before. This was negligence, pure and simple.

@@RandomMichiganGuy A lot of those places shouldn't have ever been built on in the first place. I believe in climate change, but I don't think it's the unusual kind. Earth has changed so much over so long, no matter what humans have done. Trying to stop the earth from going through it's changes is kind of futile. Whether we survive as a species is the real question. Yes, there are things that can be done to help along the way, but in the end, mother nature is going to do what she wants and is going to go through changes that she's been going through since the beginning of time. I'd rather just try to keep trash out the ocean and see nature parks in California properly take care of their foliage to prevent wild fires. By that, I mean they need to do seasonal controlled burns so that all of that natural fuel can be removed for new growth to begin. Thus preventing more fires. There are so many simple things we can do, that people just don't realize, because they see fire, and instantly think bad. They've done it for years in many national parks. Controlled fires prevent uncontrollable ones. Anyways, we really have built a lot of things on the coasts that should have never been built, because eventually water levels were gonna rise and destruction was basically eminent. Humans really do think we can build anywhere we want without consequences. Pompeii for example.

9/11

I didn't either until just now.

There was actually 4 sections of the building (not counting the pool deck which fell into the basement parking garage before the building fell) but the collapse happened so fast that most people only saw the 3 sections fall.

Neither did I.

Me too I thought it was only one. Unbelievable poor people. So sad 😞

@@dalewalker4614 wow very sad

The tower that didn't fail had bigger,better pillars, probably other bettter design features as well....

@@michaelmakes1225 nope, it was just further away from where the pool compromised the concrete around it.

@@RashaKahn the surviving building,now demolished,had pillars directly in contact with the west end of the collapsed deck..they were exposed by the deck collapse,but they held up ..and they were of a clearly thicker design.. that's the area I meant...if the collapsing deck had pulled those pillars from under that tower, it would've been brought down too...but they held.

@@RashaKahn If you look at some of the architects drawings, the west portion of the building had thicker columns than the east side. Really not clear why that was done, as the loading per sqft should have been approximately the same (possibly more as the east side had a penthouse apartment on the top)

@@tomsixsix crazy

Wow

Was the garage having flood issues then needed pumps?

Such kind words. I couldn’t put my own feelings down more clearly. Thanks.

This is Florida. Too many high rises built on sand. Yes, this will happen again. This isn't the first time.

@@Steve_in_NJ foundation is only one issue. The ocean is in the air 24/7 that close to the beach. My parents chose a really nice doublewide on a canal lot in Ft. Myers over a condo. Mom's work as a property manager & Dad's work as an architect specializing in high-rise glass installations played a part in their decision. No view of the beach but tons safer!

A lot of animals too

@@katiekane5247 Hello Katie, I live just north of Tampa in a mobile home circa 1956, older than me. 1 mile from the beach. I used to live on a sailboat based in the Keys, in Marathon. Used to teach diving. Your family made the right decision. I can ride the car down and watch a sunset. I loved Ft Myers in the mooring field under the bridge. Stay safe and share some love, the world needs it right now.

I agree...so real...tragic and so sad. RIP TO ALL.

It's even worse... A Columbian/Cuban couple vacationing heard loud "explosions" in the parking garage at Surfside (it was probably the first of the columns starting to fail) and took video of gushing water and debris in the parking garage... Residence of Surfside who were asleep were being awaken by the sounds and to investigate the explostion sounds... The couple after taking the parking garage pictures started yelling at the people on their balconies in Spanish that the building was in danger... Within minutes the collapse... The people on the balconies either didn't hear them, couldn't understand them, didn't take it seriously, didn't care, or didn't make it... It's terrible... And in an eerie way of reminds me of 9-11... when people in the 2nd tower were told to stay at their desks and that everything was fine... except its the opposite...

She was on 4th floor right in section that collapsed first

I wonder why no one hit the fire alarm to get everyone out

Try to remember….it was the residents (owners) of the condos that were presented the list of repairs and costs and were delaying any repairs (for years)….while the damage was increasing and initial repair costs were soaring. They essentially killed themselves…no one else to point the finger at…they were warned. In the aftermath of the collapse, I wonder if any insurance company will be held liable to pay damages considering the facts.

@@donsturtevant2396 I don't care! The owner of the building is responsible! If it was that bad, or had the potential to get that bad, to the point of collapse, then that is the owner's responsibility to keep them safe. Obviously the residents weren't informed of just how bad it was. Sure, some will want to put off some repairs($), but all needed repairs aren't essential in keeping the building from collapsing! Some are just aesthetic, some might be minor, but issues this big, as an owner is your responsibility whether the residents like it or not.

yeah ,..and all the some 50 people who said they heard an explosion first that "sounded like a bomb coming from garage" ,... those are just a buncha knuckle-dragger MAGA Trump voters huh ?? they were just paranoid ,..

It was also just faulty waterproofing to the pool deck itself that caused it’s demise. Think about where they are located , right by the beach in hurricane territory as well. That deck was blasted with rain for 40 years with a critical design flaw

Not at all most of the unit owners had tenets

God bless, yes the almighty's warm embrace that cover their eyes with darkness in their eternal sleep but this violent death was part of his great plan. Even children weren't spared from the perfect one's wrath. God Bless..more like God Curse.

@Boxing Fan probably. .and they still weren't protected by Hoa, that they paid probably alot of money too...

@Boxing Fan Yo what does them being rich got to do with any of this You sound like you saying they are rich so they deserve to die. Then used the phrase may God bless their soul" to soften the blow

Your stupid idea of 'god' is insulting to people who lost loved ones.

The pool and deck should NOT have been attached in such a manner that this could result. Also, the vertical posts would ordinarily be topped with horizontal beams (tie beams) in every garage that I have seen. So this scenario is weird from that standpoint. BUT, to answer my own comment, we can readily see the exposed vertical posts with no attached beams to be seen. Again, weird. BTW I have been a Florida builder since 1975.

@@vegas1a Why would the 1978 County Planning office approve such a crappy design?! Was it just not known then that this could happen? What about places with taller condos and this type of deck over the garage design? Will underground parking garages go away after this? Has a sinkhole been ruled out?

@@Dutchess80, _"Why would the 1978 County Planning office approve such a crappy design?! ..."_ because they probably all thought, 'what the heck, I won't be around to worry about it.'_

@@vegas1a I agree, I do not think the deck was directly attached to those support columns like that, and the roof alone would not weigh enough to buckle 3 support columns like that even if they had. It did not buckle any of the others supports, so why the building supports? What I think did buckle those columns are something missing from the simulation. There were massive dirt filled planter boxes next to those columns on the pool deck. They would have weighed thousands of pounds and likely damaged the columns badly as they hit the garage floor, and pushed the columns inward as they fell, rather than pulling them outward.

@@Dutchess80 - Every high-rise in the world has underground parking. Do you see them collapsing all the time? No. This was a design flaw and lack of maintenance. End of.

mmmmm not really, you'll find the reasons it collapsed are fairly obvious, just wait

@@rollover36 It would be incredibly stupid if they don’t. Pilots study accidents that happened years ago (some decades) to learn from the past mistakes of others. Why shouldn’t engineers and architects? They still study the Tacoma Bridge Collapse and that was over 80 years ago.

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@@iron-farmer Go back to your finger painting.

It will be added to the canon of engineering failures studied by student engineers like the Hilton walkway collapse, the shuttle disaster, the Therac25.

One day after you said that, it did!

You guessed correctly.

I agree. If this is accurate the pool deck should not be able to undermine the basic building support.

@@spacecoastz4026 100% correct. I studied engineering (not architecture) and redundancy is a very basic concept- even in electrical circuits. Always have a back up path is path A fails. One example might be the world trade center. It was constructed about a decade earlier 1973. It was extremely redundant. It took the resulting fire to weaken the other supports over nearly 2 hours. Champlain was completed in 1981. Also, they very likely cut corners. I heard the beams might have been thinner than what was used in the North Tower. Regardless, any building can fail if not properly maintained.

Good critical thinking. I made a video on my channel showing how the victims actions may be a clue to a possible different scenario. Must watch with an open mind though. Peace

@@zoomtruth1013 Which video- A Tribute... What is the bottom line- your point? Some people smile when they get nervous. What are you suggesting? Lack of maintenance/neglect, leaks on the pool deck, salt water and poor design brought this building down. If you have other thoughts- please share. I would be curious to hear.

@@UTAH100 jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams 😉

Watch "Building Integrity" channel. Solid evidence for extensive decay of rebar leading to concrete deterioration. This animation really helps explain the sequence. There's a video taken 7 minutes prior to initiation of collapse showing water pouring down from roof of parking garage just past the ramp. If both channels collaborated, might provide even greater insight. Theory of the water is fracture of sprinkler lines just prior to start of collapse. Terrible & avoidable tragedy!

It's a good question and a good observation. I wonder what what the North Tower is like in that area supposedly it was ran better and it's a way better shape than South Tower was

@@dougc190 look on Google Street view and you'll see evidence of what looks like concrete spalling on that building too, especially around the balcony barriers.

@@dougc190 Both Champlain North and East are in chitty condition...just different stages.

who were the contractors? I've heard things about the Miami scene cutting corners in the late 70s/early 80s.

@@Dutchess80 I appreciate your reply and I have no reason to doubt you. I'm just going off what I've heard and read on the news.

Indeed ! A brilliant probable illustration of a deeply unsettling tragedy ! Reporters talking about a "pool deck" (at an unspecified level ) and leaking roof (lacking drainage slope) sounded more like a cascading pancaking from top down, not columns yanked away at the bottom. :-o

One of the things that they could’ve done to prevent a complete and total collapse is to do the same thing that they do on modern bridges. On modern bridges they design the bridge with uneven spacing between the sections and columns to get them not to tug on each other during failures. If you look at bridges the center spans are farther apart than the ones closer to the shore. Engineers have found out the hard way to do that to bridges. It looks like some building engineers are going to have to find out the hard way that they need to follow suit too.

The deep state

Shut up

@@untoldofficialyoutube8563 , Or . . . Open Down ! B-)

Precisely how YOU have deduced this happened as well?.. 🤨 You mean, precisely how this brilliant man presented it to you in an amazing detailed and elegant computer animation simulation? You probably fancy yourself a skilled CSI investigator and credit yourself as the lead detective when watching true crime documentaries too?

Or maybe respond to engineer findings in a timely manner. Also assess potential threat or risk areas of residence. Then have these people relocated. They could have raised money to help the people find other places to live until they addressed all the findings. It’s not the design that failed. It’s human failure to respond that caused yet another tragedy. In the Middle East or even China these condo association folks etc would be in jail. In the U.S they just get to file for bankruptcy and move on

It sounds like there were various things going on, think we'll have to wait on a more expansive report. Some say the design of the drainage was poor, it was a level surface rather than graded which would naturally cause any sort of water buildup to flow away, potentially made an ideal circumstance to rust or decay the material around it, or just increasing pore fluid pressure which makes shear stress failure more likely too. But this is all speculation as we don't quite know what point or points of failure caused this. Could even be a little bit of everything.

@@knightingg8324 Yeah, I guess the concrete slab was suppose to be slanted to allow water to flow off. Instead it was completely flat and water built up.

Everyone wants to blame the building owner but it seems like he did his job based on his presented reports and findings. The HOA didn't want to pay up though. Just another reason why you should never live under a HOA, their primary concerns going through their complaints was over dogs and "unclean sand". Engineering was out of their depth it seems

@@maxwillson doesn’t concrete soak up water and can cause expansion and cracks? Considering they’re next to the ocean and dealing with hurricanes yearly, that’s a lot of water.

dont waste your time with prayers, child

@@VINvIN344 get a life omg

We shouldn't put the onus of this on the tenants. If I were to find out the building I live in had structural defects dating back to the construction of the building, I wouldn't be thrilled at paying for repairs. Especially since my landlord should be the one paying for it since it is HIS property, not mine.

@@user-K8T this is a condo building with individual owners, not a landlord.

@@waitaminute2015 I see. I haven't watched any real news coverage, so I don't really know much information outside of the structural failure.

@@user-K8T it's very sad. Actually the Rolling Stones did an article about this that I liked. You can Google it , it's a fairly short read, but explains the situation.

@@waitaminute2015 All things like this are. 150+ people died in their homes. All of them had lives and families and certainly weren't expecting to die that day. I'm not ignorant of the tragedy of the situation. But I don't see any good reason to immerse myself in it. We can't help anybody who died, but we can learn how this happened and that knowledge will help us understand how to better protect against things like this in the future.

That's because this isn't a causation analysis. It's an effects analysis.

@@floridadad2817 Correct. It doesn't explain anything.

Plus you got to understand that it's easy for us on the internet to put a "potential explanation" of what happened. But for the investigators in the field it has to be 100% correct. Especially when you're dealing with people's lives, you really want to make sure that the correct people are held responsible

News reports and experts could be sued.

But when the "experts" are done 2 years from now, it's still going to be just like this effects analysis animation. LOL. Some combination of rotten-ass rebar concrete, poor drainage, salt air environment, blah, blah that caused the pool deck to collapse just like this or similar.

@Ron Douglas I noticed that as well. The lights going on as if people were being woken up from the sound, and then the collapse.. That breaks my heart.

Indeed.

@@3smithey life is short.

You're very welcome!

Supply the link for that

What is the name of the video.

@@glock23gen4 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZijo9Z617PDgI0.html it's footage taken of the parking garage entrance showing a pipe leaking water. You can also see the debris that had fallen into the garage which would have been from the pool deck having collapsed first. Also believe there are two accounts of people in the building commenting on the collapse of the pool deck before the building came down, one of them did not make it out and was on the phone with her husband when the building collapsed.

@@brycesbroadcasting it shows a beam and water That is chiller water ..not pool deck collapse. If the pool deck collapsed first it would have set off the fire sprinklers and the fire alarm ..The pool deck was punched by the building pancaking on top of it

With a P.E. License in Civil E., I have been on a dozen or so multi story building demolitions. This has ALL of the ear markings of a building demolition....in my professional opinion, the Miami building episode was NOT a self-sustaining collapse....it was INDUCED via high level explosives!

Jesus Christ! Did he make it out at all with that lady and her kids?!

@@Dutchess80 Jesus Christ is the son of god. His name is not a cuss word!🤨

@@MrMJmusicLover in ireland we say ‘Ah Jazus ‘ which is fun and confuses the religious snipers every time😂

@@kevinmcgrath3591 I looked it up and find it more appropriate. 🤔😅

This is NO a computer simulation. This is a very bad computer animation. Example: 1:17

Thank you for the appreciation. Im happy you approve of the music. I am cautious to show respect to the tragedy.

Very respectful, yes. Thank you, Mr. Bell.

I’m glad to be helpful. Such a tragic story. I cannot imagine what it was like for the victims.

@@Mike-Bell no Mike neither can I... The resident I knew is Estelle Hedaya. Shes a beautiful woman from Brooklyn New York who moved to Champlain South in 2015/2016. She lived on the 6th fl facing north. Half her terrace remained standing inline with the others that we see. It was her bedroom and den that fell while her kitchen and terrace remains.... I pray for her every moment along with her neighbors... How the paradise of Surfside can become such tragedy... Horrific...

@@danperlman3185 yes it is tragic but on a larger scale I find it somewhat fascinating that life is so random that one moment you go to bed and the next moment you are known across the world. Very few people had heard of the city of Surfside outside of Dade County and Surfside Mayor Burkett was certainly unknown to the world. When he turned in for the night at 11 p.m. he had no clue that he would be addressing the world media in less than 24 hours for a catastrophe in the city. Just like the city of Parkland (school shooting) in Broward. Small unheard of city suddenly known across the world.

Good eye. Why did the engineers make such building decisions? Like, how is an exposed water filled slab a main component of the whole building’s structural well being? That’s just janky. I get that they would’ve needed to make the columns thicker and all that but goddamn. No sense and fucking sad to say the least.

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150 did not live

Most didn't*

@@kcholmeskicks sad numbers

Happened so fast they probably didn't even have time to process what was happening, let alone try to get out or even say "I love you!" one last time to their families.

Very sad God be with their families and I sure hope the Rest In Peace.

I'm not en engineer but I'm surprised there weren't disconnect points to prevent the pool deck from pulling down the other columns that didn't punch through. A pool deck failure should have just pancakes down into the garage without compromising support columns for surrounding structures.

Glad it was helpful!

I watched at .50 speed with the sound muted. That worked for me.

Glad you enjoyed it

Nobody cares what you thought.

And imagine all the other good stuff you passed on because you "thought" it was "Bullshit"? Don't be that guy

Edward Morgan -- I'm not quite sure why you got two such hostile responses to your post. I thought your post was well put.

The Sampoong Mall? That was in Seoul.

@@helenhebert7127 Yes, you are right, i Seoul. I have corrected my comment.

CHAMPLAIN TOWERS MIAMI COLLAPSE - The Controlled Demolition of America - Cui Bono? Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/baqFg5yB3Z3dZoU.html

@@hugobenitogonzalez2202 Your video is just a collection of photos of this building and actual demolitions. That links explains nothing.

@@endeavourist5287 So you agree then, World Trade Center Seven was a controlled demolition that took place on September 11, 2001? I know, it is pretty blatantly obvious. Did you listen to Klaus Schwab at the end of the video? Ever heard of him?

"I have no idea what he's talking about, but I agree!"

I’m also not an engineer and I still don’t have any fucking idea what any of this is trying to explain

Just wait until our bridges start falling and tunnels collapse.Vote Biden infrastructure bill stupid.

Maintenance knew. They complained to the board just days before.

@@elizabethharalson7903 Yeah because Biden will save us ALL 😒

They were planning to begin these repairs soon. Of course, the residents resisted paying millions of dollars for needed repairs, at first. That's just human nature.

Yeah, the HOA ignored the engineer's report several YEARS prior to the collapse. Now DeSantis has announced the state of FL (that's us taxpayers, if you live in FL) get to pay for the demolition and clean-up of this monstrosity. Just as many other similar older multi-story condos in other areas of FL are now "all of a sudden" being declared "unsafe". These are multi-story homes, owned by the residents, and should be paid for by the owners who neglected them....just as my house would be if I let it deteriorate to the extent the roof collapsed.