Champlain Tower South: visiting unit 611 on July 17, 2020 - Surfside FL condo collapse
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- I took this video while visiting unit 611 with a realtor during Summer 2020 at Champlain Tower South, Surfside, FL. I am posting this video to help the current ongoing investigations for the collapse causes. I just posted "Champlain Tower South exterior" filmed on 2/26/2021 condo collapse Surfside. Video link • Champlain Tower South ...
I would have never thought from looking at just the inside of the building how badly in shape the structure stood. It goes to show that looks can be deceiving.
Yes, concrete damage can hide. Even a small crack can indicate severe structural damage if properly analyzed. And to top it off, it's in the garage, so of course it doesn't need to be addressed right away being underground and all. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess...
Agree....I thought about how beautiful the condo, yet its sitting on a bad foundation... even in a one story building, foundation needs to be solid to support the building.
It kind of feels like the saying, "you can't judge a book by it's cover".
It all looks so clean and well kept until you see the garage. Beautiful views.
I agree. The building inside looked clean and well maintained. Now a pile of debris with so much death.
Maria Iliana Monteagudo ended up buying this condo, and she woke up in time to get to the far stairwell and get to safety. Her story of being jolted awake, seeing a huge crack in her wall, and running for safety is harrowing.
I hope they make a memorial park like 911 site for all the victims families ! It would not be right to build another condo in place of it. I'm sure Maria lost friends ! Very Sad
Sadly she was stupid and did not do her history on the building and apparently didn’t even walk around the outside or the garage
If I had known less than a year it would fall, I wouldn't have gone up there. I'm sure no one would.
@@disneyfan9099 Why would a condo buyer have the skills to know what is or is not acceptable wear and tear? Every condo buyer has to be a trained inspector now?
Holy crap, this is her apartment?! That's terrifying. I read yesterday that if she had chosen the staircase near her unit, she wouldn't have made it. She forgot about it though and ran into the part of the building that didn't fall to take another stairway. And hence she survived. Crazy, just crazy.
The fact that they even looked up at the garage ceiling....something you wouldnt even normally notice unless it was in an obvious bad state
I didn't think the garage ceiling looked so bad to the point of bringing the entire building down in a matter of seconds
@@larainyday964 its subtle for sure.
@@lostpony4885 But to notice it is what matters. I don't know when buying a condo if you can bring in your own inspector, before you purchase.
@@larainyday964 no one who didn't know would either, but the rust and stalactites are apparently a bad sign. it's shocking to see them everywhere now that I know what it means.
The telling part is that part of that garage the ceiling looked great, the other has rust and crumbling concrete and peeling paint.
I don't think we will ever look at a parking garage under a residential building quite the same way again. Rest in Peace.
Truth!!!
It was the pool area that was the problem
@@B-ch6uk concrete deterioration they beleve
Although I wouldn't get the place mixed up with the penthouse, parking garages are considered a major plus. *And she had 2 spaces, on the beach.* I don't drive right now, but here in the DMV, it's good to have one. You will pay for it, but your car can remain secure and warm and cozy when it snows. You don't have to park blocks away, so much so that you need to take a cab back to your place. Some people even rent their assigned spaces out.
Or the Mall!
The way it looked from the outside, I would’ve never guessed it looked like this on the inside
Always look at the structure outside not inside.
@@robertrutenberg3919 you mean visa versa
Even then, there were chipped areas in some balconies.
As someone who lived in Miami, this building truly symbolizes Miami. It's beautiful on the outside but corrupted and rotten on the inside.
Downright biblical. Somewhere in Matthew…
I was seriously thinking of moving to FL. Even did a visit this year to check it out. But I think im good and your comment made me rethink I should just stay home.
1000% in agreement!
@@lindaterrell5535 what?
@@letswatchutube5132
KJ21
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but are within full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.
Looks like they spent their efforts polishing marble instead of shoring up the basement
Old building
Yup. It’s mostly like that. Half ass.
Someone needs to go to jail for this. You cant have 150 people die on your watch when you had 3 years to fix the issues. I am talking about the city building inspector or Bod members. Obviously this building needed to be condemned. Poir residents died over incompetence of the highest order.
@@suncatcher216 40 years isn't old. There are buildings much older that are still standing. This is the first time this has happened. That building had fundamental problems.
@@marim7784
It's true. It is all about maintenance
It is sooo weird seeing the condos from the inside. All we have seen is the outside, the pile of rubble and the floors stacked on top of each other. These condos were beautiful from the inside and just to imagine someone was just lounging around watching tv in the comfort of their home and out of nowhere the whole building collapses. It is so sad and my heart breaks for all these innocent families.
This is so heartbreaking to watch.
My only consolation for the poor souls is, that at 1.30am were the majority of the inhabitants fast asleep. RIP💔
@@danielahoti4109 yes! I really hope their deaths were instant and painless 😩
@@danielahoti4109 Some people were in the garage getting out of their car. Imagine 12 stories falling on you after picking up Taco Bell . It almost seams like a dream, so surreal
I dont know if it helps but the woman that was in 611 is safe. She woke up just before it happened and saw a massive crack in her wall, she ran out and took the far stairwell. If she took the stairs just next to her apartment she wouldnt have survived, but she forgot about them in the panic.
@@xiaria yes! I did see her story and a few others that were able to get out of the part that collapse
I worked in both towers just at the completion of construction. Mostly the north tower. Those damn garages leaked from day one. We used to get complaints from residents all the time that "the building is leaking". The calcium/mineral deposits would ruin paint jobs because many tenants were seasonal and they would park their car, go back to there home country, then return months later to find a mess on their car. Champlain North had the same problem. I know they've been cleared but I bet there's hidden damage in the foundation for sure. My condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims.
The parking garages in the North and East towers should be filled with concrete, hopefully the collapse of the South tower is a wake-up call to architects and building owners who have previously neglected repairs.
Building Integrity did a good analysis of this video. It appears planters that were added to the pool deck were leaking. Supposedly they were not part of the original plans. Do you remember if there were planters added next to the columns in the pool deck back then? There appears to be some other discrepancies with the submitted plans and the actual construction.
@@freeculture I want to say yes, they were there. Seeing pictures and videos online from the past has brought back a lot memories but it was 40 years ago so I can't say 100% yes. That was back before the days of smartphones and digital cameras but hopefully previous tenants will post old photos that might aid in the investigation.
@@Tony-rl2fr Since you were there in the beginning and the leaking was already occurring, what do you think the source was? Leaking water supply pipes? Rainwater penetration, either from the top down or laterally? Condensation from cooling units?
@@zenface2163 I can only speculate but personally I believe we can rule out sea water. The garage is above sea level, if it were sea water it would seep in from below grade. I agree with the pool deck hypothesis, rain water intrusion. In my few years there, there was never any discussion about looking into it. Just residents upset that their cars paint finish was ruined.
The parking garage looks a little scary, but the inside of the building was gorgeous. So hard to believe the cosmetics were hiding such impending horror.
Perfect metaphor for Miami.
brilliantly phrased. just as i was thinking.
The ceiling was cracked and buckling back then and there was water everywhere. The place was way overdue for maintenance and should have been condemned
@@exposingliars9824 the building had lost its usefulness.
It looked outdated.
Can't lie, the MOMENT you stepped onto that NOW infamous balcony design, my stomach sank.
Me too! I imagined riding the rubble down!!!
😥😥😥
Oh you don’t see anything you’re crushed in under a second not a moment to think breathe or survive. She didn’t know what happened to her perished within a moment.
@@civic9404 omg 😱😥
Mine too
Just wow! at 4:52 this is the section of the garage that first collapsed! this video is key to the investigation. Thank you for posting it!
It looks like a high end condo. Just can't believe it's so fragile and vulnerable at the base.
600K and up for those condos.
@@theelusive11 Move to California.
Looks can be deceiving. I wouldn't want to live near the beach or ocean after seeing this.
Those condos were not considered “high end” until a few ago. Surfside has become a popular destination over the years by the younger crowds. This area used to be dead with only a few apartment high rises. It was a retirement haven. Miami area housing prices used to be very affordable. That’s why you see a lot of older elderly Hispanic and Jewish senior citizens in those buildings. A lot of transplants from NY, Boston, Philly area. A friend of mine bought hers a few years back with her mom. She’s only a teacher. She sold it after her mom passed. She made a nice profit from it. Thank God she did. That sale saved her life.
Not that you said it but other video posts have been horrible and saying “rich people” problems. Yes, there were expensive condos there but majority of people who lived there weren’t. They’ve been there for years.
Building was built on re-claimed wetlands. So there was never a solid foundation to begin with. Nature re-re-claimed this land.
If I ever buy another condo
I’m checking the basement not just the room.
And get a lawyer to review the condo docs!
And ask for the Structural Engineering report!
I own a share of a condo and go 4 times a year for a week. I checked it over very well, with my eyes that were very uneducated at the time. Next time I go the parking garage in the basement gets a much closer look as does the outside of the building. I am pretty sure we have no spalling but I am checking again, armed with more info. Rust, water, cracks and spalling, I am looking for you!
Or better yet don’t buy a condo.
Even the specialists did not see this coming. So your personal inspection would probably also fail.
Red flags:
Condition of garage ceiling
Bits of concrete missing from balcony
Portable drier in hallway drying carpet
I would of ran from that place FAST!
She said they were washing the carpets.
@@eugeniaskelley5194 That was likely said so as not to scare away a potential buyer. When you shampoo carpets, you don't use industrial carpet drying fans. They would have "wet floor" signs throughout the hallway until it dried. Carpets that have been shampooed for cleaning are generally damp, not sopping wet. This fan was in one location, concentrated to a spot.
@@FireCracker3240 I doubt you have ever lived in Florida. The humidity is extremely high and drying time is increased exponentially because of it. Depending on the humidity that day and how quickly you need something to be fully dried, supplemental drying equipment is an absolute must for dense materials such as carpeting. People have the collapse in mind so they are dramatizing every detail thinking it was related to the collapse.
@@MrScottie68 so someone went there one day, up to the 6th floor, and shampooed one little bit of the hallway carpet?
So scary that almost a year later, life would dramatically change for everyone inside that building. RIP to all who.lost their lives in the Champlain Condo collapse. Very sad and truly tragic.
And to think 3:13 would be one of the bedrooms that came down first 😔
Absolutely heartbreaking
Its crazy though nothing jumps out at me that looks like this building is about to collapse. Hidden problems and a flawed design, also some engineers are saying they didnt use enough rebar looking at the photos and the technical drawings it appears they cheated out. I think in the future we will see these building built with larger columns as well. Still looking at this noting screams theres a huge problem, which is really scary.
@@Paranimal86 They built the building on re-claimed wetlands. I was all on board for, "If only the owners had shelled out the money for repairs!" But then when I found out about it being built on a swamp, I realized rhere was never a firm foundation to start with. So repairs would only have kept catastrophe away for a few more years , or made no difference at all. This was Nature re-re-claiming her wetlands. Soon all of Florida will be shaped differently and then gone altogether.
Blame Desantis and the Republicans.
This looks alike an apartment I could only dream of owning. I will never again complain about my dingy lil place
The building collapsed, so your dingy apartment is better than this.
Privilege is a ruthless killer
Beachfront living means nothing to me now.
I now love my safe tiny patio home that my precious cat and will call home as long as we live.
Many of these people worked very hard for that "privilege" You speak of.
You would never think a building this high end could collapse so suddenly.
Cosmetically high end.
It seemed sudden, but the damage had been documented for years and the owners couldn't agree on having to spend so much money for repairs. So they just let it go. And the building was originally built on re-claimed wetlands. Nature re-re-claimed that land.
It's not a "high end" building.. it's was a very old building,designed poorly.just happened to be in an area that decades later became extremely valueble.....not for long...I guess
There's no way it could fall so fast into ashes even if the base gave out first. This is a rare thing. Some non biased engineers need to really assess this whole situation.
The most crazy thing is, this apartment is just right where the initial collapse happened, that exterior and those columns were the weak link.
I'm an engineer and this video is a crucial part of this whole thing,
That parking garage footage may become extremely important to the ongoing investigation. I hope this has been forwarded along :) amazing you recorded everything
Those small standing puddles of water and map of floor cracks could really tell some of the story. Btw, those cars were bone dry, that water came from somewhere.
I agree.
Some of the ceiling looks terrible and yes the puddles of water are very suspicious, they will be able to work out by the pole numbers where that is in proportion to the building above.
@@Jude74 you must not be from Miami, its common even in the street on a sunny day... so most people in South Florida do not notice.
I agree it's obvious that Even though the condo's upstairs looks elegant and magnificent the basement is in need of repairs the garage is In need of repairs the cracks was growing than and the owner was only concerned about collecting that $3200 rent. IT is horrible yes the owner has to do some jail time for this he had all of 2020 to fix those repairs.
The parking lot looks with water spots all over just like the pool contractor described it. He said around parking spot #78 it was full of water.
But nothing unusual for these condo buildings on the beach. Happens all the time
@@ThePrissy11 yes but the cars were bone dry. Water coming up from the foundation is a terrible sign.
@@Jude74 You dont know that
@@ThePrissy11 I know the cars were bone dry, the floor was covered with cracks and oh yea THE BUILDING COLLAPSED. Dude.
@@Jude74 The parking garage condition gave no indication of what was to happen. My condo building on the beach had the same lower level garage problems but it didn’t fall down
weird how all those condos in perfect order, beauty, and nice furnishings were pulverized into dust and debri in only 15 seconds.
Welcome to Miami. Total third world city.
Yeah that is crazy
Nice furniture? It was all 30 years old. This building was total trash and strata should be held legally accountable for allowing the parking garage to deteriorate like that over the years.
@@shandraleon99 The sad part about it is that they will likely find that the foundation itself was the problem, that the oddity of the location having sunk over the past few years will give some people the excuse they need to shift the blame.
@@shandraleon99 the point was that its amazing how fast everything in that building was pulverized into dust or destroyed in just seconds. our lives and everything we own can vanish in a instant. people should count their days, and not take anything for granted, cause this life and everything you own and everyone you know and everything you know can be gone in a instant.
Old buildings like this give off plenty of warning signs when they are decaying or failing. Such as rebar exposure, cracks, rust, and water coming from places that it shouldn't. This building had all the signs and remained open. I would have been scared just walking through this garage and seeing this. Places like this pretend the problem is solved by painting over it or covering it up. Pathetic.
idk why they keep the garage under i dont like it when i see buildings just sitting on top of a garage
That's right dude, but I don't think even the experts thought it would bring the building down. This is a watershed incident for future regulations.
If you study the garage footage you can see the ceilings are bowed in places. The corrugated panels on the ceiling would have been enough for me. NOPE! ABSOLUTELY NOT. You got BIG issues you're not addressing.
I have an apartment in a 100 year old building. Rock solid. It will be standing for another 100 years. Though the plumbing is a nightmare.
Sure, they give off signs, but the owners have not been trained to understand that these are serious not cosmetic. Even the trained engineers who inspected in 2018 clearly didn't recognize the true extent of the damage from the signs... it would have required the extensive review of the plans, x-rays and destructive testing to get the full picture that we have in hindsight.
Oh yeah that garage ceiling looks scary. It looks like it is holding water and it is almost exploding. I have always been afraid of basement anything. Now my fears have been realized. Terribly sorry for all the families affected.
It sure do if you listen real good it almost sound like you can hear the pipes. And it was water spots everywhere it lost on its way down.
I have had scary dream that always come true and one of them if my cieling fan falling on me then one day i wasnt home it fell on my bed right where i sleep …. So glad i wasnt home i manifested that shit
@@7kimmy22 I think this gave everyone the chills and fears of that happening now😔 there is a term for this fear isnt there? A term or name for the fear of a building collapse ?
The ceiling is definitely holding water.
Cieling Area two columns past end of ramp into garage was the first to collapse before the building came down. Lady took video looking into ramp area from across the street.
Almost looks like the garage ceiling is sagging
Nobody questioned those visible cracks 😲
I thought the same thing but also thought maybe im just looking for imperfections because of what happened
The rebar shows signs of rusting, the concrete has spalling and orange rusty looking stains, like previous comments, I cannot believe this was ignored!
I WAS JUST THINKING THE SAME THING!
It definitely appeared that way
Watching this has a similar eerie feeling when you watch video taken in the Twin Towers before 9/11
I agree
For real. I feel the same way.
Omg can y’all stop bring up 9/11. This has nothing to do with that
But the twin towers was not in disrepair as these videos clearly show signs of early damage warning signs. I don't see the parallel.
@@robertjromero9488 different causes of building collapse but collapse nonetheless
611 is the condo that Iliana Monteagudo lived in, she's the woman who escaped with about 3 seconds to spare, was awoken by noise, tried to close her balcony door, then noticed a crack on her ceiling snaking down the wall, and ran for the exit, but didn't take the stairwell closest to her condo unit, apparently unaware it was there, and you can see that exit sign around 0:50 in the video, instead she ran to the stairwell next to the elevators, which saved her life, as she was going down those stairs at about the 4th floor is when the building collapsed, the first section to collapse where her condo was located.
Are you for sure? If so that’s amazing
Jesus. I can’t imagine how terrified she was.
@@Vistapro97 Yes, just google her name and you'll get the news reports and interviews with her.
Thanks for sharing that. Eerie indeed.
OMG. I've seen a video footage inside the apt where it recorded cement particles falling down from the ceiling seconds before the building collapsed which was probably couple of floors below hers. The crack comment you said would explain that. My god. She is very lucky to get out of there alive.
That ceiling in the garage was clearly in trouble. All of the engineers that saw that place and did not recommend that everyone get out are complicit. This isn’t a tragedy but a crime. Gross negligence and criminal neglect.
The water everywhere in the garage, on the ceiling also, but it is no rain perfect sunny day outside. Inspection should check this video out. That is a proof that water was dropping from the pool deck for a long years before collapse!
This was not the pool deck. It's coming up right from the ground. A former maintenance man said it used to flood with seawater. I'm willing to bet this was built on a limestone deposit and seawater was getting in. Low tide was 2am on Jun 24th. A limestone deposit collapsed and the columns folded like a lawn chair.
Even if it "was raining" there wouldn't be water coming out of the garage ceiling.
there was already a report from 2018 saying that there was water damage from the pool deck risking structural integrity of the whole building
Garage ceiling looked really bad. I noticed a fan in the hallway near the apartment door similar to what ServPro puts out after a bad leak or flood. Didn’t know if it could suggest that there were leaking issues within the at least one of the hallways as well.
@@natsfan100 They said this building was built on reclaimed wetlands. This was nature re-re-claiming it back. 🤷🏽♀️ I really wish they'd never built there. Even if they had shelled out the money for repairs, it probably would still have happened because the actual ground under the building was not a good foundation.
Anybody else find it a little strange they had that huge fan in the hallway? They usually use them to dry out wet carpets so it makes me wonder if there was water leaking upstairs.
The lady at 2:43 says "they're cleaning the carpet..." maybe that's why the fan is there.
Apartment-style condos often have leaks and overflows…clogged drains, toilets, etc. That’s nothing really extraordinary.
Some of the tenants interviewed mentioned the smell of moisture and mold. Such a shame. How can a country with the best of the best lets this building pass inspection.
I wondered that too
@@micoal2834 To be fair, it didn’t pass it’s 40-year (2018) inspection. They knew it required extensive work, and that work was going to be completed in 2021-2022, and beyond. I think it was a combination of the association being disorganized and also getting poor advice on the actual condition of the building. In Canada where I live, condos are required to do an inspection (Reserve Fund Study) every 5 years. This maintains the integrity of the structure but also makes sure funds are available to complete any required work. I hope the US learns from this tragedy and changes their laws around condo inspections. 40 years is too long and allows a complacent board to kick the can down the road way too far. Making it someone else’s problem in the future…until it all comes crumbling down.
If anyone finds it too fast, TH-cam has a handy "speed" feature so you can slow it down.
I did just that. I had to slow the speed to .25 as I was getting very dizzy with the quick movements of the cell phone. I still appreciate that the video was uploaded.
And adjust the quality to the highest to be able to see with more detail.
Thanks for the tip! :)
Wow! Made me dizzy!
Thank you Sir
Thanks for posting this. One thing I find notable, which I haven't seen anyone else mention, is that the column pictured at 4:41 was originally planned to be much larger in the Aug 1979 Basement level framing plan. This column was originally intended to be about 3x wider in the direction to the right of frame and was supporting a beam going in this same direction according to the Aug 1979 Lobby level framing plan. However, these plans were revised in Jan 1980 with the notes, "Change of column type" and "Change of dimensions", and the beam is also removed. I hope that these revisions were made for good reasons, such as improving the structural integrity of the building, and not for bad reasons, such as fitting a couple more cars into this already sketchy bathtub garage. Unfortunately, it looks like the latter may be true.
You can believe that the "design change" was to lessen the cost.. This buildings were constructed by Mafia owned companies and used for money laundering vast amounts of drug money… So bad !!! Organized crime at its best !!!
I was watching one of the engineers who are reporting on this and I also saw that one whole side has thinner columns. And they are holding up the whole building. Does anyone know what stopped that 4th part of the building from collapsing? I read that halfway through construction they hired a new contractor. Did the 4th part get built last and was more solid and so it stood? I haven't seen anyone discuss this point yet and am curious why didn't it all fall down? Why did that last part stay standing? Must have been some reason.
@@mysterywriter888 The west side remained standing because it was still supported by its columns, including the core stairwell and elevator shaft which is usually the strongest part of any building. The part that collapsed no doubt pulled very hard on the west section of the building, but not enough to topple it. The failure started east of the elevator shaft and proceeded north and east, but was unable to propagate west due to the strength of the core.
Pause and look carefully at the column between parking spaces 27 and 28 at 4:49 in the video. It is the one with the cone beside it. Compare the shape of it with the columns in front, and behind, from the camera angle. This is not lens distortion, because that bow to the north would be present on everything in that line of sight if that was the case. Odd, isn't it ?
As an architect, what I saw in this video of the parking garage struck me, and it wasn't the puddles. The columns connect to the floor slab directly without any apparent reinforcement for shear.. In layman's terms, the columns could poke through the slab, which is exactly what they did on that tragic day. Normally, the top of each column is surrounded by a thickened slab with additional rebars to take the shear (poke through) stresses. It could be that the slab was thick enough to contain adequate extra rebar for shear but events prove otherwise. Pictures of the collapsed pool deck show the columns, complete with their identifying numbers, standing upright with the fallen slab lying at their base. Classic poke through.
EDIT: I just saw another video of a walk through of the collapsed pool/parking area, close up to the columns. The columns were cleanly sheared at the former floor level with a couple of rebars dangling. Looks like my speculation (see above) about inadequate shear protection was correct..
Yes, normally you would have mushroom heads to increase the shear depth, as well as alot of diagonal rebar & stirrups however most likely the main flaw relates to the pool deck slab tied to the existing building. This clip shows it in very good simulation of what may have happened. th-cam.com/video/hynHiWE818c/w-d-xo.html
Yes lots of people died but also a valuable lesson was learned. This will probably crack down on building inspection policies throughout the US and a few other countries as well. This tragedy will almost definitely save another building from collapsing in the future. It’s the only positive way to look at it.
Sad part it will not. Greedy corporations and low life inspectors will take bribe and not do his or her job.
Valuable lesson? It’s an expensive lesson! A lesson that costed all of those people their lives.
@@seanjean9677 Oh an expensive lesson??? Wow I never thought about that!!!! Thanks Captain Obvious!!!! 👍 Up until you chimed in I thought it was a cheap lesson learned. Don’t quit your day job buddy
I freaking hope so. Because it seems like nobody care anymore, like they are over it seeing it on TV and on social media
Sadly it will result in no actual changes. Anything you here will be performative at best and in 3 months will be “hopes and prayers.”
Shoot that garage was wet... Even the untrained eye looked up at the ceiling. That's how bad it looks. Can't believe those folks didn't care!
Pealing paint means little. I've been in buildings much taller and seen holes through floors of parking garages in Chicago. I don't see piles of rubble or sparing concrete. Decades of salt water would have weakened the structure, but I bet it was constructed weaker then designed.
He shot the exposed rebar in the ceiling as well as skinny columns. I think the only one who may have rights to sue would be renters. The owners have to keep their places safe and were receiving information about work needing to be done. I’m sure a few owners realized the horror of it and left over the last few years at least. Especially when they saw water coming up from the entranceway flooring outside.
@henry t , We have money for what we want to spend it on. I don’t consider it a hit to spend it on housing needs, but a responsibility that I owe for having it. The sooner you can afford to put money and work into it the better because costs go up. Home Depot has raised prices too, and there’s no deals on appliances during holidays at JC Penney’s anymore like I got a few years ago.
@@bambur1 right as she pointed the camera upward, she shows rusty cracks. Maybe she was in the good side of the garage? Idk... But if this was last year and the inspection was 2018, showing spalling, I'm confused on how it looks pretty decent.
@henry t I'm sure they had some type of HOA... The board should have been taking a portion of that money for upkeep. I mean they had about 40 years worth of it. Should have had something saved up
You don't think about how beautiful the insides of the condos must have been ... and then everything gone in an instant ... family heirlooms, artwork, jewelry, family mementos, photos ... and their loving pets. It's almost too heartbreaking to watch. 💔💔💔
Their souls
Happened in a matter of seconds.
They didn't have a chance!
@@hrhtreeoflife4815 They're saying now that everyone died in the initial collapse (besides the woman in the basement that they tried to cover up.)
@@hrhtreeoflife4815 no suffering. Better than dying from cancer.
@@chrisbarr1359 u don't really know if they suffered. Some probably didn't die immediately. They probably were trapped at some point. 😭
You cam clearly see the massive cracks and failed "repairs" and water puddles. The interior looked great tho
It's still didn't look as bad as some were making it out to be. I have to admit, if I didn't know then what I know now, I wouldn't have hesitated to move in. Only if I had read the engineering report from 2018 would I have hesitated.
@@hochhaul And this was the problem. It's clear there were issues in the overall communication between Morabito Consultants (and the severity of their findings), the condo board, and the owners. I believe one of the main issues for the overall lack of concern is that concrete damage can hide and may not be very apparent at first glance. For a better picture as to how concrete damage can hide, I recommend looking at Building Integrity's video here: th-cam.com/video/TyVdSJFUfrc/w-d-xo.html
@@hochhaul ugh
@@hochhaul true... guess we all learned something... also, wonder how many people get their own inspector?
@@hochhaul Yeah it didn't look as bad as I thought it would either
I wouldn't buy a house if the basement looked like that.
The garage didn't look very bad at that time🤷♂️. There were a couple spots in the ceiling but nothing that looked critically abnormal
@@gngd5351 I was trying to get a point across. Hope you still got it.
Exactly
@@xandervk2371 Your point doesn’t really apply. What normal house would have a garage under it?
@@wintersantiago2274 I am glad you agree that the collapsed building wasn't normal.
Looks like they spent all the money for repairs on the lobby
What a contrast between the ritzy looking lobby compared to the garage with the cracking ceiling and water puddles.
They all do that. Show offs.
All that corrosion on the garage ceiling looks bad.
Yes I gasped when I saw that I also teared up
Yeah, that would have made me uneasy on an instinctual level and i would have bowed out of that one. Not to mention the unit was not appealing
@@comment6864 yes, now...but, unless trained wonder how many people would really give it a second thought?
@@user-bw3fl7fj9w honestly I would have.
@@user-bw3fl7fj9w I would second keriezy's reply. I don't know for sure what i would do of course, but like i said on an instinctual level.. i am very squeamish and uneasy and typically even overthink things like that. Though i don't know much about structural engineering, i notice things that make my imagination run away. Like seeing a space under a foundation makes me think like how is that thing supported.. it seems impossible. Also, i don't like the ideas of condo's in general. I like privacy and independance from neighbors, to do things on my own time and pace. Would prefer to pay for repairs on my own terms. Seeing weird stuff in a common area that is not under the control of my individual unit would make me worried. At the VERY least i would ask - does the HOA fee INCLUDE repairs of this. If i got anything but an absolute yes i would absolutely move on. The HOA fees in that place are exorbitant. You can take care of a small house thrice over for that monthly amount, and on your own terms.
I hope you show this parking garage section to the proper authorities. It would help them in the investigation.
I will never look at a peeling ceiling or water damaged the same way ever again...
Really makes you think every time you see a puddle of water in an underground garage. There's really no reason for that to be there
@cosmic debris Nothing wrong with her suggestion no need to be an ass
@xiaop chen Nothing wrong with her suggestion no need to be an ass loser
@Alexis Petal
Just ignore the haters, hun.
They're everywhere anymore, because their own lives suck, so they try to other people's lives suck too.
@xiaop chen Hey, be nice!!!
This is so spooky. It's like getting footage from the Titanic or WTC before disaster.
It is weird how good the building looked. Clearly all the repair money was spent on the appearance and not the structure of the building.
They spent more on cosmetic improvements than structural maintenance. This is why I love living in a single story home.
I will never look at a high rise the same way, or a parking garage. Don't think I'll ever go into either one ever again.
Same…I always hated these type of buildings but the collaps just strengthened my fear…
Parking garages have always frightened me.
Building collapses are pretty rare, though (without an earthquake or similar disaster or terrorist attack, or planned demolition), when you consider the large number of buildings all across the USA. Which is why this made national - probably international - news.
I feel the same way. I will never look at water in a parking garage the same way either. That this building could come down is terrifying.
Beware malls then
The garage entrance.. Eerie.. not knowing you were at ground zero just a year later
Eerie is also the word I just used to describe it to somebody.
@@ctatrains I just used the word eerie. It gave me chills seeing the end of that ramp.
Incredible. That area at 4:50 (to the right) is right under the pool deck and is theorized as the area where the collapse began. The viral video of the tourists capturing down the ramp and into the parkade (after they heard a loud crash and about 10 mins before the building fell) where the water is seen coming down and the concrete on the floor is where the camera person is standing (and looking up the parkade ramp) and talking about parking stall 17. Wonder how they feel about standing in that exact spot a year prior. Crazy. Watch Building Integrity on TH-cam, he’s a structural engineer and is going through all the publicly-available data on this collapse in an easy to understand way.
@ 4:08 Notice the complete lack of beams? All the floors and the pool deck relied on post-tension cables to hold the slab in compression. In an environment vulnerable to corrosion! Failure of one or more of those cables would cause the slab to lose structural integrity.
the pool itself was much further over in the corner, with maintenance spaces underneath it rather than parts of the garage. But presumably the water from the pool (or possibly also rainwater or leaking plumbing) flowed along the rebar channels and other porous parts of the deteroating concerete and pooled above that area.
@@SmokeyBCN I didn’t say the pool, I said the pool deck, which is all the flat area around the pool which is showing punch through of the columns in the collapse pictures.
@@DavidJohnson-tv2nn It’s not post-tension construction. Watch Building Integrity (structural engineer), he reads the plans and explains how the slabs were constructed with rebar, not post-tension cables. He mistakenly thought it was at first as well, until he read the plans.
@@PeaceMeBish Do you have a video title and timestamp? Because if you look at video taken from inside parking garage, there are clearly no beams to support the slab above. Something that I doubt could be done with rebar alone. Especially with the piddly amount of rebar in this slab!
This is so creepy. Amazingly, the woman who lived in unit 611 was one of the few residents in the collapsed part to survive. “It’s like something supernatural woke me up. I felt something strange”
And yet the apartment and outside looks incredible and clean and well maintained, incredible views too. But the garage....
The woman who ended up buying that exact unit, Maria Iliana Monteagudo, is the woman who narrowly escaped the collapse by rushing down the far staircase seconds before her unit fell. There are 3 victims from that floor (1 recovered, 2 missing).
Iliana's interview: th-cam.com/video/wNNcS3mbAAI/w-d-xo.html
No matter how beautiful a view is, please do research on property look into how many people have bought and sold frequently... This is a horrible tragedy specially for babies and children who lost their lives cut short 💔🙏🏼
Also, pay attention parking garage, maybe talk to people who live there or even in the neighborhood, wonder if you can hire your own inspector, like people do when buying a single home or townhouse, if they don't allow it..move on hiding something..
More importantly, read the body corporate records.
@@user-bw3fl7fj9w yes the parking structure looked like it took a toll on water damage with the paint bubbles and corrosion... If you look at the ground you see puddles everywhere
Just goes to show that death does not discriminate between the rich and the poor. When it's your time to go it's your time to gooooo... RIP to all those lost in this tragedy.
Unfortunately they went out like the titanic 😞
Exactly. Many people think stay n at home will keep em safe. When is ur time. Doesn’t matter where u is. Only God knows how long he allows each soul 2 develop 😌
@@monanina4172 amen 🙏 always repent before sleep
@@danyeboi9597 brother amen might b a reference to Egyptian god amun. As I believe Jesus is zeus Greek god. Stay woke vigilant!
What if it's not your time, but it your roommate's time to go? You might be going anyway!!
I felt sick to my stomach the whole time watching this video. Brought to the forefront how real these condos were and how real these ppl's lives were. I realized immediately that this was the unit from where someone had managed to escape and I kept thinking about her the whoel time.
This video gave me goosebumps. Life as we know it can change in the twinkling of an eye. 😔
Such a beautiful place, on the facade. This is so sad. It really was a beautiful place. Now it's dust and horror memories and unfathomable loss.
@Andreas
And their so-called virtue signalling doesn't mean a thing, because their nasty, hateful actions speak louder than words.
@@janicem9225 Virtue Signalling is not really the term I'd use. The problem here is a more general one of human nature. The body corporate knew there was huge upcoming costs ($15m); this would have been apparent to anyone purchasing an apartment and taking the time to read the body corporate records. Thing is that trying to get 100s of retired people to all agree to fork out $80-350k is extremely difficult and involves politics and time. Could you find $80k to spend on a problem that some engineer is talking about and you can't really fathom? Look at climate change, scientists are warning us, but many of us are too busy quibbling over nuances.
@Andreas There were not obvious problems with the units. The problems were the supporting structures. So sad.
Noticed that the cammer felt it was important to observe the stalactites in the garage.
Always trust that feeling and recognize it as an opportunity to stop and ask: is this right?
They bought the unit. The person was one of the survivors.
@@Og-Judy no, they didn't. Read comments above.
Goes to show us .we cannot be too hasty. We will greatly learn from this tradegy ..when trying to make sense of the magnitude of all this Its my hope we not allow construction flaw's.. to get by the individuals responsible for constructing such a structure.. that they be held accountable for the strength and durability where ones family seeks shelter. I can point out a new building constructed in mesa arizona where it's several stories high..and it doesn't even have any fire escapes ..sadly it's a shelter for homeless families. Supposedly state of the art programming. But no fire escapes .no elevator s living on the top floor you had to drop a rope tied to a back pack to get your groceries upstairs ..couldn't carry all up several flights of main stairs much less deal with a infant and other small children in tow. . someone down town had to be paid off for that building plans to get approved. .SAD. A homeless shelter project for families. ..It's goes go display the corporate greed... and the fast talking developer/builder s wanting to fill there pockets. When really they don't care a nugget about QUALITY construction. In the construction industry there is rampages of drug/alcohol addicted staffers on payroll when they put these buildings together. Not to many think about that aspect..goes to teach us that people accept superficial ly. What they see is what they is buy into. Good looks. Lousy characters.. SAD that whole may have hot approved over a steak dinner a sail upon the water with a few strippers in tow over booze..and then this happened...we need to all wake up. This is way to tradegic . ..
Unit 611 is the resident woman that escaped right before the collapse. She states that her living room wall was cracking before she left. This unit is directly beneath the unit with the motion detection camera that showed the building material "snowing" as the wall and ceiling joint began to slip.
Also, the concrete ceiling looks damp and soggy in the garage as evidenced by the dripping formations.
I think the woman was exaggerating for the camera. I don’t think what she said actually happened in her apartment
@@ThePrissy11 She has been very consistent in every interview. That crack is what got her out of her unit.
@@cesjen5460 I just dont believe her
@@ThePrissy11 Neither one of us can prove what she did or did not see, but her testimony that the building was making cracking sounds is corroborated by others and the video (with audio) from inside the apartment. The time she reached the front desk also coincides with the time the building collapsed. Not saying she can't be lying buy everything else she says seems to hold up.
@@apex_ventures I’m not sure I believe her but it is good she got out
It’s so beautiful... most lay person would not ever think that this would collapse even if you saw some cracks . !!! 😱
Despite the moisture and somewhat porous ceiling, it didn't look like it would collapse. It was underneath the parking garage, that couldn't be seen where erosion was taking place. Eerie looking at this.
Exactly. I would think "oh, it's just the sprinkler system leaking somewhere" if I saw water on the ground in a garage
We are all lay engineers now.
@@zubirhusein Maybe but there was the huge crack in the foundation.
This is why my late father told me little things to look for while buying a house. Skeleton roof and windows. Pounded it into my skull and that's the first thing i look at. Waiting for an answer to purchase a new home. Maybe getting the keys next week
Congratulations in advance. 🙂
@EZ Z that's what they talked about on the Champlain. The waterproofing was messed up, and the repairs to fix that actually made it worse. Your father is a wise man.
@@alidamouranie9608 he always said to go house hunting in the winter. If you have a problem with icicles- could need a new roof, windows - both. Losing heat. The skeleton of the house - he thought me to press a certain way on walls with doors shut. If they rattle - you have a cheap skeleton. Look for water damage. Etc,,,,, he taught me a lot
The only thing I really liked about this apartment was that walk in closet. For that kind of money I would expect better. Especially when it comes to that garage. Parts of the ceiling looks like it is already caving in.
I also love a good "walk in closet"...
I agree.
Was the price mentioned ?
@@louern123 units ranged from 700k to 2.8 million
Paying for the view. Not for me.
Wow they kept everything gorgeous but the infrastructure
Yep, it’s called polishing a turd.
@@boataxe4605 its actually called the American way.
The building was built on re-claimed wetlands. So there was never a firm foundation to begin with. Nature re-re-claimed that land.
The mouth on this guy...where do you live?
@@somatate9864 How do you know this?
Wow, look at all those cracks with the stalactites coming out of them - water was just pouring through that floor plate!
They even had to wedge clear plastic corrugated panels above the pipes to shield people from the water dripping into the parking garage. You can see the panels all over the place. Water was pouring through all the cracks in the concrete slab.
@@hochhaul Yeah, that's just not right.
@@hochhaul from the pool deck covered with pavers and no waterproofing, the water weight and corrosion of the rebar caused the collapse
@@Angel-tw3ko yes, agreed. This is the root cause. Jesus.
@@hochhaul - time stamp? I missed it
What happened to this apartment building is terrifying and unimaginable. To be sleeping in your bed one moment and falling to your death the next must be a horror I pray no one else has to endure. May they all rest in peace in the arms of our loving God. And may the families find peace somehow in their passing. Amen
AMEN❤️🙏🏻
It was fast I’m hoping for their sakes these poor souls.
The COLUMNS in garage are of different thickness, if you pay attention in garage section of video as she walks thru. The collapsed section had thinner columns. Look, they had here and there these red cones next to columns. What is the purpose of cones? to reserve a parking spot as taken? Or to make column more visible to avoid being hit by car? Some street lights basements are thicker than columns in the very end of video. There are some reports in Internet that they had very little rebar inside these columns. And you can see that at catastrophy photos once columns let go of concrete slab and the rebar is exposed. Needles to say, whatever rebar was - it was weekend by corrosion. The building plans made public: also show different thickness of columns. Why the columns that support building are thinner than street light bases and why do they need red cones next to them?
Don’t forget how much rebar was removed after the inspector left during the building being made. This was common practice; remove expensive rebar after the inspector saw it in place, all in the name of greed; not money but the love of money.
@@onethousandtwonortheast8848 yeah the match up the blueprints to what was actually there. Which was a lot less than supposed to be there. Hell you can see how little rebar was used in some pictures.
Look at the ceiling in the garage all the partially plugged cracks it’s a lot
Yes, that garage ceiling was a mess and to think it was supporting 12 stories on top of it. That ceiling had "stalactites" all over it which means that there was water damage going on. And notice that there were actually some puddles of water on the garage floor. There is no reason water like that should have been in a garage. Look at the puddle at 4:43. It couldn't have come from a wet car because it was in between the parking spaces on a kind of walk between the cars. That water was from a leak.
@@faithfulforever6331 Now that’s this happened if I every happen to life in a high rise I’m checking that garage first
@@richboimagic yea but the real threat are greedy people, if residents were to complain about certain things in the building would greedy officials chose to save money or risk lives
@@richboimagic I have had opportunities to live in high rises before, but I am afraid of heights and for some reason, that phobia has gotten worse as I've grown older. I've worked in tall buildings before because I had to do so; but I never liked it and I certainly would never live in a high rise. And come to think of it, I am not that crazy about parking garages either.
@@wallysmart2432 Someone who posted on another youtube video regarding the Champlain Towers said that the residents paid $950 a month on condo association fees. There were 130 units, so that means the association was taking in $123,500 a month and almost $1.5 million a year and still they couldn't fix the building? I have never liked home owners associations and now I like them even less than before.
This building was so bad it could of collapsed while you were there! Everyone who’s been here has essentially risked their lives
Oh wow. This is the unit Maria Monteagudo narrowly escaped from
Indeed, did you see that emergency exit sign in front of her entrance? Had she known about that stairwell she would have been buried but she exited her unit and turned left and found the emergency exit by the elevator which stayed intact during the collapse. God blessed her that early morning.
Holy crap. That condo is literally one of the first to have collapsed. How amazingly thankful I am that the current owner and the potential buyer both survived this horrific mess
I have to wonder if any of the prior owners sold their condo recently to avoid paying for the upcoming repairs are legally liable? They knew of the reports and structural deficiencies in advance. Was this information disclosed?
I was just thinking that same thing. I wonder if any owners found out about that humongous assessment and tried to postpone any repairs on the building so they can sell their unit to some sucker and let them deal with it. 😐
To compromise on a whole building based on a few owner's decisions is stupid thinking!
An owner might be able to argue that since maintenance is not his responsibility and he is not an architect or structural engineer, then it was impossible for him to have reasonably known that there was a problem with the building.
Those huge cracks in the garage floor and ceiling.....cold shivers.
this video is of the sister building, the South tower, not the building that fell....
@@TheMrTripp read the title of the video. This is the building (and one of the apartments) that collapsed.
Seeing as to how I’m not a building expert I would have no idea that the fk up garage means that the building would cave in
No this is the South Champlain Tower building that collapsed.
@@TheMrTripp The South tower *was* the building that fell. Also see the oval building for reference.
Garage ceiling doesn't look good. Seems like they put epoxy into cracks in the concrete. Which would have been there due to much greater damage on the other side
It's like just filling in a cavity in a tooth, without cleaning out the decay.
Really bad way to go.... there were several loud noises so some residents were awake to experience the terror. I dare say that this is one of the worst things to happen in America as far as mass casualty event since 9/11.
i've been thinking especially about those people who were in the part that collapsed last. They would've just been awakened by the tremor of the other collapsed portion.
@@ida5067 The garage collapsed well before then and it woke some people up. The issue is that most people wouldn't expect the entire building to collapse, even if the pool deck just collapsed. The designers of this building didn't design in any redundancy. The design relied on each and every column in order to protect the structure. Losing just two or three columns under the building, in the parking garage, meant catastrophic failure.
@@ida5067
They would have also been swaying and sliding across the floor as it started to lean and move.
You can actually see furniture from inside, going towards the front where the balcony is, and a chandelier swaying all around inside.
This is worse than 9/11. It is all residential and when everyone was home sleeping.
Another was Trumplestiltskin
I live in a condo with two garage levels under the deck but instead of being constructed with prestressed concrete there is a latticework of steel i-beams and a truss assembly holding up the ceilings. The steel truss is exposed so that rust and corrosion would be clearly visible. With reinforced concrete the steel rebar is buried inside the concrete so you don't see the structural damage until it is too late.
When the rebar rusts, it doesn't remain hidden. It becomes very obvious.
Cant believe all that is gone now... it just another proof that absolutely nothin in this life is guaranteed and any day could be the last one. Better be ready and at peace with everyone.
We gotta learn to live one day at a time and in peace with ourselves and others, be humble and help the needed because we don’t know when will be our last day on earth. No matter how much money or material things we own, none is taken with us when we die. Also, pray and always thank God for each day because it’s truly a blessing. As the Bible says “We don’t know tue day or the hour our Lord will call us” Matthew 24:36
@@E.z.b.f Yes I know. But protecting your life doesnt mean youre scared of death.
@@E.z.b.f I have him. Still ill wear a seatbelt.
Jesus is coming soon. Live and Love.❤🙏❤
@@Mr.77776 Always
The apt. Looks like a fancy hotel room. The weight of the building was just too much for the beams to hold up. The parking garage was just a hollow space. Thank you for showing a glimpse inside the building. rest in peace to all who lost their lives.
Not really a fancy hotel room
Hollow space like almost every other building in existence....
@@disneyfan9099 Not attractive at all. Too high. All those excessive mirrors. Smallish balcony with scary flimsy looking railing, next door skyscraper too close. I don't get the allure of these shoreline skyscrapers. The halls look drab. Nothing burger.
@@comment6864 I don't know it looked good to me. 🤷🏻♀️ I guess I have an old fashioned sense of style. I dug the double doors. Makes for a nice wider feeling and the bright colored wall and decor. And I'm an 80's baby lol. No, wasn't born in America.
@@comment6864 I agree. The balcony was small and looked flimsy to me too. Next door too close too. The halls were ugly and boring. I felt the same. My low income apartment looks better! And I looked at a different video and they had a small picnic area that looked too small. The pool looked small to me. They did have tennis courts across the street and the beach not too far. Anyway it is sad and scary. I feel so sorry for everyone. You can never replace people you love who are lost.
Insanity to think those twigs in the garage are supporting the entire building 😯
Yep, and one small failure can bring the entire building down. I really wonder if engineers are fully factoring in all the weigh of floor tile, furniture, people, carpet, appliances, cabinetry, fixtures, etc.
@@spacecoastz4026 True.
I'm in shock that you took that footage of the parking garage. Truly one of the most eerie things I've ever seen.. I know you never could have imagined what that would turn into. I hope you're able to turn this over to the proper authorities
One of the most eeriest things you've ever seen. 🤔 You haven't experienced life yet.
It was eerie too since they had a good shot at the garage ceiling and it had a huge crack
@@_Kim_Possible 👍😉
Hello MM hope you’re having a wonderful day beautiful?
Finding it hard to believe it went down almost a year later. My thoughts with everyone affected and RIP those who lost their lives on this tragedy.
I'm so happy I live in a house with a backyard, a fence and a garage.
Me too
Doesn’t mean nothing wouldn’t happen I’ve seen house have sink holes too. A guy in my town got swallowed by one as he was sleeping.
I live in an apartment with a front yard, planter all along the front, a huge oak tree and a porch swing. I also have flowers in two city tree spaces on the sidewalk in front of my apartment. The only difference from a house is that I have neighbors upstairs who go to bed at 10 p.m. and I'm up much later so I have to constantly be careful about noise.
@@VlogsByRayTeam exactly. Jeffery Bush. Seffner Florida
@@poodee9395 yup hit too close to home. I live about 10 miles from where he was living.
Thank you for the footage you have. The last area in the garage will be of interest to engineers, as it relates to the water leaking, and ceiling collapse in that area, just prior to the incident.
I’m sure this video will make news headlines. You heard it here. Nice job capturing the ceiling of the parking garage, I’m sure this will assist in the investigation
That’s last year, you can see how bad the ceiling is in that level of the garage. And she obviously noticed it as well. Did anyone else notice the couple of puddles of (I’m guessing) water? Could have been from cars though🤷🏼♀️ It’s just tragic. I can’t imagine being in their shoes, going through what they’ve all been going through. Prayers for all involved.
Totally and had I lived there I might have worried the garage ceiling might come down. But not that the whole building would follow. Just unimaginable.
The water is just odd. You would see these kind of puddles in ski resort garages, but why would you have so many wet spots in Miami?
The engineering report said the biggest puddle seemed to be near spot 71. OP walks right past it in this video.
Hello Courtney hope you’re having a wonderful day?
@@lynnbortnick Yah, considering the pool deck, most of it didn't have the building over it.
I’m very glad that you’re okay. Thank you for sharing this video, which hopefully gives investigators clues as to what happened. Prayers to all those who have perished. 🙏
Wow great footage!! I was wondering how inside looked like glad you saved this video also for showing the garage I can see how poorly it clearly was.
That garage made me nervous. I think I would’ve had to pass.
Yeah, pretty funky down there. I would've at least been asking a few questions.
Looked like it smelled bad too. Covered with mold.
@@svasianfilipiname6603 Good point. Didn’t consider that.
How much is this unit. One million?. Very spacious unit with gorgeous ocean view.. Omg the garage ceiling looks rusted and scary
It was just shy of 700k. The woman who bought it miraculously escaped when she woke up, saw the crack in the wall and ran for her life.
@@jon123etc so glad she escaped!
This units were $750,000.00 plus $750.00 monthly for maintenance!
Aren't you glad you didn't buy?!! Correct me if I'm wrong, it appears as though unit 611 was in the section of the building that collapsed first. The building and condo appeared to be quite nice. However, you did manage to catch some water damage in the ceiling down in the basement area...
@@pjhey947 so she did end up buying the condo?
@@pjhey947The Cuban lady. I saw her interview. Her son set a Go Fund me for her. Poor lady sold her house to buy this place.
@@felipeescobedo2230, no, the woman who posted the video whose channel this is, is Dr. Fiorella Terenzi. The woman who bought this condo last year is Maria Iliana Monteagudo. She paid 600k for the 1672 sq-ft, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, w/2 parking spaces condo which is bigger than the house that I'm in. It's a shame what became of this building because some of its owners were too cheap and obstructed the maintenance of the building.
@@corazoncubano5372 Yes She seems like a very sweet woman who, even though she’s lost everything, she alive and with her son. She’s blessed and very lucky. Her Apt was facing the pool and the fact the she survived is nothing short of a miracle.
@@jimwheeler6094 One of the first to "file a lawsuit" ( right when it happened ) was an owner who was complaining that each unit would comprise an average cost of 100K to do the necessary reinforcements and that would add $900.00 to his monthly fee for several years.. Potential buyers should have demanded a structural inspection..
That parking garage is terrifying! All that exposed rebar turning to rusty dust when it comes into contact with all that water omg! Thank you for posting this. This is a very unique video and glimpse into the inside. We've only had outside perspectives up to this point and it really puts into perspective how this building served as peoples' *homes*. They had entire lives here and they all vanished in less than twenty seconds.
Thank you for posting this video - God bless everyone affected by this tragic loss
Hello Nelson hope you’re having a wonderful day?
You can truly make a piece of trash look fancy.
Especially waterfront.
Like Kim Kardashian...
@@jmb1666 🤭
That is a definition of Miami.
Hello Brittney hope you’re having a wonderful day?
Crazy how nice it looked, I bet people just assumed it was safe and that a complete collapse would be impossible 😢
I was thinking the same thing as I watched the video. I even said to myself out loud, "Wow that's really nice. Who would have ever thought..." If that could happen to a really nice building like that then who's to say that a lot of other places that look pretty and seem safe are really not?
@@rdelamadrid management probably spent all the budget on cosmetics and covering up the warning signs instead of acting on them.
Imagine living in a earthquake zone and living in one of these
whattwowhat- That's exactly what they did. Everything was cosmetic. The commercial pool guy who was there 2 days before the collapse, said he was asked to give them a bid, for some "cosmetic" work to the pool area. The man said he told them they needed far more work done, than just cosmetic fixes. They told him they were only interested in a bid that would make the cracking pool deck look better. It's unfathomable the tenants would not come up with the money for repairs, but decided to stay and roll the dice.
I am suspicious... we assume a complete collapse would be impossible because maybe it should have been. We don't see complete collapses in major earthquakes.
(I appreciate this video, but it was recorded so fast and shaky, it was making me dizzy. I had to adjust playback speed to 50%). This unit felt a bit dated even after the nice remodeling, but at least it didn't have that Golden Girls look, like other units in previous videos. The views of the ocean, however, more than make up for any shortcomings inside. Then we see the shocking damage in the basement's ceiling and standing water everywhere. In all honesty, I probably wouldn't have thought much of the damage prior to the collapse. We've all learned a lot about proper building maintenance and how to spot red flags from this awful tragedy. Thank you for sharing this important piece of evidence. I hope you and your loved ones are ok.
The location is the biggest selling point. I have to admit, Watching this video, I probably would have considered moving in. Sure there are some cracks in the ceiling in the parking garage, but there were signs that repairs were made, so most people including myself would have shrugged it off. It's a real wake-up call that major issues can lie just below the surface of many aging structures.
I agree, hindsight is always 20/20. Those condos looked nice inside, and I think I would have justified it in my head that there are a lot of nice cars parked in the garage. Nobody else seems to be worried about the ceiling in the garage, so it must be okay....
I agreee
What's wrong with the Golden Girls, or Blanche's house? Maybe missing a family room or a library?
@@hochhaulthey had me at 2 garage parking spaces on beachfront, not waterfront, property. I'm used to garages not looking all that hot. Definitely something to think about.
4:37 Notice the nice thick columns where the lobby is in the parking garage. As she walks on thru the garage the columns getting skinnier which is where the ramp into the garage is. This is where the rupture happened.
5:03 literally where she's standing is where the collapse started. Video from the guests across the street showed debris in garage 7 minutes before the collapse.
I would never have known it was on the verge of collapse. Sure I see the warning signs now, but I know I would’ve brushed it off as nothing serious. Can’t imagine what it’d look like to stand in that condo when it collapsed. How does something so nice become a pile of rubble and twisted metal so fast.
I would not have, but my family has paranoia in their genes lol. That rust in the garage and I am gone I would have reported that big time too and left.
Well, you don't have to imagine. Just punch champlain towers ring camera into the search bar and you'll get about 14 seconds of video that made my heart rate go through the roof...
It gives me a little peace knowing no one died in this unit.
This was filmed in 2020
I believe someone was living there. This was filmed a year ago.
@@lisagavin3402 Yes, someone lived in this unit. A lot of the comments informed me this lady had awoken right before the collapse and ran to the stairs and thus didn’t die
Stalactites in a garage are never a good sign, especially with visible signs of rust.
Hopefully this catastrophe will be a wake up call for the building industry and its regulators. Having lived in Miami back in the 80’s, I can only imagine the high likelihood of overheated concrete pours and lackadaisical rebar placement. Very interesting Video!
And rust on metal can expand 40%. The standing water issues they had in the parking garage. Just a disaster waiting to happen. There was a 2018 report saying the cracking of the facade all over the building was going to get worst fast. Yet they did not apply for even starting to get permits to fix things. For more info, check out Building Integraty on TH-cam. He is a forensic engineer. He covers a lot of the atrocious condition this building was in.
You reminded me of that geological feature ,thats just good science.This is a no brainer here, people need time to think about this behind bars.
No, the bodies will be removed, the sight cleared, and the lawsuits settled. Then it will be back to business as usual. There is way too much money at stake, for both developers and politicians.
I don't know anything about construction but from watching them clear up the debris the rebar looks very thin to me. Is that normal?
Rebars are not supposed to get wet, if so, they oxidize and that increases their volume, put tremendous pressures on their surroundings. If the concrete for the slabs was not poured in a continuous manner, this may results in layering because of the failure to make chemical bounding, this will severely defeat the steel reinforcement no matter how strong it is and will provide access to water. Punching through slabs could be the result of this phenomenon.
Looks like the building upgraded the windows and the lobby since it was built; hallways and baths show the true age.
As did the foundation.
This is fabulous video. You can see the lobby, the entrance to the lobby from the first floor... you can see the parked cars and the elevators. You can see the interior lay out and even the stair well that didn't break off. Really amazing.
Well you'd never guess there was such a devistating and deadly horror , by looking at how beautiful they were......so sad...God love them , and my they rest in peace . It's heartbreaking to consider the grief and pain the families and friends are experiencing....God love them. 🙏♥️
Above ground level looked great. I saw another video of going through the problems that were revealed in the video in the garage. Look at the ceiling in the garage. There are all kinds of issues showing up. I probably wouldn't have picked up on them if I were there a year ago
@@WhittyPics It's scary to realize how many other buildings are out there with serious maintenance issues... but yeal this building obviously was much worse than the residents knew....sad , very sad.