Ummmm… what?
Is it just me, or does that seem very odd to anyone else?
I really don't understand the writers/editors purpose of including this, to the point of including it in the sub-headlines.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9722297/President-Paraguays-sister-law-51-missing-Miami-condo-collapse.html
"Experts who had studied the building as recently as last year said the building was unstable and had been sinking since the 1990s."
'It's hard to imagine how this could have happened,' Burkett said. 'Buildings just don't fall down… There's no reason for this building to go down like that unless someone literally pulls the supports out from underneath.'
Burkett suggested that potential causes could be the result of the foundations being washed out or a sinkhole.
The Miami-Dade Police have assumed control of the investigation as to why the building collapsed.
The building been subject to various inspections recently due to the recertification process that has to occur every 40 years.
'There were garage underground issues related to that, to make sure that it was done soundly,' Surfside Commissioner Charles Kesl told Local 10. 'And, to my understanding, there were some cracks from that project - minor cracks - that were just patched up. Nothing, based on my understanding, to the magnitude that would indicate that there was a structural problem that could result in something so catastrophic.'
Wdowinski said in his study that the building had been sinking since the 1990s.
He said on Thursday he knew instantly which building had collapsed when he heard news reports of it.
'I looked at it this morning and said 'Oh my god'. We did detect that,' he said.
Kobi Karp, an architect whose firm has worked on prominent Surfside and Miami Beach buildings, told The New York Times that the way the building had collapsed suggested a 'possible internal failure.'
He said the internal failure may have been caused by 'deterioration at the point where a horizontal slab of the building meets a vertical support wall' - which he explained to the outlet could lead one of the building's floors to suddenly fall and take the rest of the building down.
Karp said that such a deterioration could have happened either slowly over years or suddenly if the structure of the building was unintentionally damaged.
The collapse, which appeared to affect one leg of the L-shaped tower, tore away walls and left a number of homes in the still-standing part of the building exposed in what looked like a giant dollhouse.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9720381/Eleven-story-Miami-Beach-apartment-building-collapses-sparking-huge-search.html