Watching this on the news and it’s just crazy. From the pictures I was trying to figure out how much actually collapsed and it’s a lot more than I thought from the pictures they’ve been showing.
Here’s a picture of the collapse. Looking at it you’re probably thinking the building was pretty symmetrical so it’s one small corner that collapsed:
That flash in the beginning is going to raise a lot of questions. Was it the electrical as the collapse started, or was something in that section of the building that exploded. Very interesting to see what the cause of this was.
Going to be a lot of inspections going on down there now for the surrounding buildings to see what they look like I’m sure.
There’s a lot of weird little flashes but I don’t know if it’s just because it’s such a crappy video turned into an even crappier gif or what. I’m sure a lot more will come out in the next 24 hours. That’s a huge collapse to just happen out of the blue.
Yes, almost full occupancy. Now they’re saying 51 people unaccounted for. Considering each floor pancaked into the next all the way to the ground the odds of finding survivors isn’t looking great.
Thankfully they pulled a boy out alive already. Hopefully more to follow but I haven’t seen any updates yet about addition people being found yet. The video is pretty crazy of what they at least have. The one part of the building almost looked like it was going to stay standing, then dropped a couple seconds later. Nuts.
I think it’s actually the person holding what I’m assuming is a cell phone to record the computer screen. Based on the start when you see the edges of the program window, I think its the cell phone moving, not the actual camera recording the incident but I could be completely wrong.
Someone had a security camera setup in their condo in the building, but they only use the place for vacation. It recorded some of the collapse and emailed them before it lost connection.
Fox has some construction company owner wildly speculating as to the cause and the comments from engineers ripping him apart for being a moron are classic.
