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What would make a building crumble like the one in Florida?

It crumbled into smaller pieces.  Could a sink hole cause such a terrible event?

Posted - June 24, 2021

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  • 7792
    Neglect perhaps. I'm sure all of that will come out in the following days...................MAYBE!!!
      June 24, 2021 3:43 PM MDT
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  • 44614
    I'm thinking cheap materials, or anti-Semitic militants who are tired of all the retired Jewish NY transplants.
      June 24, 2021 4:48 PM MDT
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  • 581
    Cheap asp building materials.
      June 24, 2021 9:09 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Somebody on the top floor went to work in the morning and forgot to turn off the tap.

    (Then decided to spend the night with a friend)
      June 25, 2021 12:14 AM MDT
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  • 16781
    Security footage shows the ground subsiding, sinking cars etc immediately prior to the collapse - so the building evidently wasn't anchored properly, and when a sink-hole happened, down she went. It's Florida, sink-holes are a regular event.
    Either cores taken to determine ABP weren't of a sufficient depth to determine what was really bedrock and what was merely a big-a$$ "floater" (a boulder with softer material underneath it), or the builder skimped on the piers, not drilling them to sufficient depth. Or both.
      June 25, 2021 4:33 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I suppose that we will eventually find out the cause of this tragedy, but watching it on the news reminded me of 9/11 and the Towers pancaking down.  What an absolutely horrible way to die.
      June 25, 2021 6:44 AM MDT
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  • 448
    So sad, and pray there are people missing that are just not there.
      June 25, 2021 1:50 PM MDT
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