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This is the link of the collapse (warning - disturbing). It was posted by FOX13 Tampa Bay News so I hope it's ok to link (MSM). It has a slo-mo repeat.
The video above of the collapse (including slo-mo repeat) showed white flashes on various floors of both sections of the buildings. The first time I watched it I felt a huge wave of nausea.
White Flashes: Just as building 1 falls, there are many white lights on the top 4 floors of it or directly adjacent to the building that did not fall. Those white lights could be flashes but there are other lights on that could be people's apartment lights. The video starts with the collapse of the top floors of building 1. There is no released footage of the building standing complete prior to the collapse or the status of the lights/flashes prior to the collapse, so we don't know if it was dark before those lights suddenly appeared as it collapsed, or if those were people's lights that were on and visible through the windows.
After the top floors fall away and turn to dust, there are additional and repeated white flashes on the top floor of the remaining building (viewer's left) that is still standing, and more debris collapses clean off the building. Then, while the first section is collapsing, there is a large white flash behind behind the entire complex at the bottom (from the 88th st side) and behind the plume of orange fire, smoke, and dust. The large white white glow behind the building (88th st side) remains while there is then a white flash on the top of the remaining tower (left) that did not fall, then a white flash on the front, ground floor front left corner of building 2. Then the white glow behind the building goes black. Then there is an additional large white flash from behind the rubble of the first building that pushes through the orange smoke and dust and lifts it from where it started to drift downwards and puffs it up and forward with force, like someone blowing on a massive campfire. That large white flash can be seen flashing through the building as small white squares on the left corner of the top floor and the center of the middle floor (halfway up) of building 2, and then building 2 collapses. Once the first building is down, there are another two flashes in quick succession that appear on the top of the remaining tower that is still standing (left), and a third flash a few seconds later, but that section does not collapse.
I suppose it could be swamp gas, or electrical surges, but the building disintegrated. It appears to have been violently and aggressively destroyed by some powerful combustion forces from the 88th St. side of the building.
It also appears the the section that remains was offset a bit to the south. The part that came down was oceanfront.
ETA tried to add a screen shot of the street view of the building but it's too big. Here's the google link:
Google Maps
Fox News also flew a drone over and it shows how clean the destroyed building was cut away from the remaining part. The north side on 88th was cut off right along what may have been a hallway or stairs, and the southwest offset part is like a freestanding building itself.
''Miami-Dade Rescue Fire said more than 80 technical and rescue teams were on the scene in Surfside, a few miles north of Miami Beach. Firefighters picked through the rubble – piled almost half as high as the part of the building still standing – extricating survivors and carrying them from the wreckage from the Champlain Towers South development.''
"It's less likely than a lightning strike," Burkett told CNN. "It just doesn't happen. You don't see buildings falling down in America."
''Burkett stressed that it was "not an old building. ... There's no reason for this building to go down like that."
Building, area has Argentinian connection
The city of Surfside has long been an enclave of the Argentine-American community after the economic collapse of the 1990s in the South American country. The sight of Steak restaurants and empanadas are nestled in high rise buildings. Sounds of porteño Spanish are more common than Caribbean Spanish in some places. Silvana Juárez, 49, of Argentina, lives near the condo building and said her good friends are missing.
“I have three friends and their little girl that are missing,” Juárez told USA TODAY. “My daughter lives in the building next door and my daughter heard a loud explosion.”
The video above of the collapse (including slo-mo repeat) showed white flashes on various floors of both sections of the buildings. The first time I watched it I felt a huge wave of nausea.
White Flashes: Just as building 1 falls, there are many white lights on the top 4 floors of it or directly adjacent to the building that did not fall. Those white lights could be flashes but there are other lights on that could be people's apartment lights. The video starts with the collapse of the top floors of building 1. There is no released footage of the building standing complete prior to the collapse or the status of the lights/flashes prior to the collapse, so we don't know if it was dark before those lights suddenly appeared as it collapsed, or if those were people's lights that were on and visible through the windows.
After the top floors fall away and turn to dust, there are additional and repeated white flashes on the top floor of the remaining building (viewer's left) that is still standing, and more debris collapses clean off the building. Then, while the first section is collapsing, there is a large white flash behind behind the entire complex at the bottom (from the 88th st side) and behind the plume of orange fire, smoke, and dust. The large white white glow behind the building (88th st side) remains while there is then a white flash on the top of the remaining tower (left) that did not fall, then a white flash on the front, ground floor front left corner of building 2. Then the white glow behind the building goes black. Then there is an additional large white flash from behind the rubble of the first building that pushes through the orange smoke and dust and lifts it from where it started to drift downwards and puffs it up and forward with force, like someone blowing on a massive campfire. That large white flash can be seen flashing through the building as small white squares on the left corner of the top floor and the center of the middle floor (halfway up) of building 2, and then building 2 collapses. Once the first building is down, there are another two flashes in quick succession that appear on the top of the remaining tower that is still standing (left), and a third flash a few seconds later, but that section does not collapse.
I suppose it could be swamp gas, or electrical surges, but the building disintegrated. It appears to have been violently and aggressively destroyed by some powerful combustion forces from the 88th St. side of the building.
It also appears the the section that remains was offset a bit to the south. The part that came down was oceanfront.
ETA tried to add a screen shot of the street view of the building but it's too big. Here's the google link:
Google Maps
Fox News also flew a drone over and it shows how clean the destroyed building was cut away from the remaining part. The north side on 88th was cut off right along what may have been a hallway or stairs, and the southwest offset part is like a freestanding building itself.
''Miami-Dade Rescue Fire said more than 80 technical and rescue teams were on the scene in Surfside, a few miles north of Miami Beach. Firefighters picked through the rubble – piled almost half as high as the part of the building still standing – extricating survivors and carrying them from the wreckage from the Champlain Towers South development.''
"It's less likely than a lightning strike," Burkett told CNN. "It just doesn't happen. You don't see buildings falling down in America."
''Burkett stressed that it was "not an old building. ... There's no reason for this building to go down like that."
Building, area has Argentinian connection
The city of Surfside has long been an enclave of the Argentine-American community after the economic collapse of the 1990s in the South American country. The sight of Steak restaurants and empanadas are nestled in high rise buildings. Sounds of porteño Spanish are more common than Caribbean Spanish in some places. Silvana Juárez, 49, of Argentina, lives near the condo building and said her good friends are missing.
“I have three friends and their little girl that are missing,” Juárez told USA TODAY. “My daughter lives in the building next door and my daughter heard a loud explosion.”
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