Call Surfside 6 to investigate.
There are probably a bunch of them in similar condition.
Building get old.
Helluva problem for people who use one of those condos as their primary residence.
Condo prices must be plummeting, NPI
I’m going down
Hey, hey, hey
I’m going down
https://youtu.be/xnzrGr78Mws
Salt air and corrosion in the concrete rebar...
Lot of places this old may be in real trouble.
The wise man built his house upon the rock
And, a hurricane of Hard Left political poop is about to hit Governor DeSantis.
There are literally thousands of Florida beach condos.
They are concrete deck buildings with concrete support columns that run from the foundation to the roof.
They are built to survive hours of 150 mph sustained winds and torrential rain.
None of them have collapsed or killed anyone for at least the last 50 years.
I am still waiting to hear any theory that explains how at least half of the dozens of concrete support columns underneath the Surfside FL building ALL collapsed at the same moment.
I live in a 40 year old concrete block construction condo in Florida. It is not in Miami and it is only two stories tall. In fact the town I live in does not allow high-rises. We have 110 buildings and they are constantly being updated, painted, reinforced. All the walkways are being replaced on the second story. The board plans for these repairs as much as possible. We did have an incident where someone fell asleep smoking and burn down their whole building which was 14 condos. The building had to be replaced and the owners relocated for about a year, and the association was under insured. We all had an assessment of $700 to pay for the replacement. However since that incident the association has upped our insurance and has agreed to their inspections for insurance every two years. We pay a monthly fee in which maintenance is budgeted for.
I am thinking what’s going to be found out about this building is that the people did not want to pay more maintenance fees. They didn’t do continuous maintenance and then when the problem got huge they couldn’t afford it. It would’ve cost about 100,000 or more per unit to fix their problem and they might’ve had to leave while it was being fixed. No one wants to do that.
The people who lived in the building let the maintenance slide and the inspectors for the county probably were bribed to leave it that way.
Looks like the city and county officials have some splainin’ to do.