The Florida Harbor Cay Condominium Collapse Disaster 1981 | Plainly Difficult Documentary

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  @PlainlyDifficult · 3 years ago · pinned

  Have any other disasters you&apos;d like me to cover? Let me know!!<br><br>This weeks outro Song: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HgQ8qJSuVY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HgQ8qJSuVY</a>

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  @gwenstephan67 · 3 years ago

  Cases like these, where the workers are basically shouting for higher ups to shut it down and fix mistakes, but get ignored, are sooo frustrating and sad

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  @Daanlikkewaan · 3 years ago

  &quot;Jeez, look at all the cracks in the concrete!&quot;<br>&quot;Don&apos;t worry, it will go away when we keep adding floors.&quot;

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  @ZoeAlleyne · 3 years ago

  The fact that these things consistently happen with basically a slap on the wrist is so disgusting. People complained, &nbsp;rich people shrugged, poor people die and the cycle continues.

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  @empressmarowynn · 3 years ago

  My parents are trying to move out of their condo in Florida. They found out that the HOA board has been incredibly inept at maintaining the buildings over the years and now the HOA fees are skyrocketing to pay for all the repairs that must be done immediately. My parents are mad about that jump in fees but I&apos;m more concerned about the fact that the roof was supposed to be replaced several years ago.

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  @devils_advocate_88 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Between the sinkholes and condos, life insurance premiums have got to be astronomical in Florida.

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  @electronash · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m glad we&apos;ve learned from disasters like this, and Florida hasn&apos;t seen a condo collapse since... oh. :(

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  @Notimp0rtant523 · 3 years ago

  “For what seems to be a state tradition” had me laughing violently

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  @Breatropolitan · 3 years ago

  There was an accident similar to this in Gwangju, South Korea back in January 2022. The high-rise was rushed, it had sub-standard concrete and had not enough time and structural support it needed to harden. It happened almost exactly the same way as the accident of this video, about 30 stories higher up in the air. The only difference is, that the company responsible didn&apos;t get bankrupt, let alone suffer severe legal consequences. It somehow manages to be a worse dumpster fire than the same accident 4 decades ago.

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  @WinVisten · 3 years ago

  This makes me worry for a few of my friends who live in Florida... It is very sad when the execs ignore the workers&apos; warnings that the shit is about to hit the fan, and they just stick their heads in the sand so the problem can kick them in the ass once they can&apos;t get their head out of the ground.<br>Side note: I like how you always used &quot;Balls&quot; as an expression that things went wrong, like instead of &quot;Oh shit&quot; or &quot;oh crap&quot; or &quot;FUCK!&quot; they just say &quot;Balls&quot;, that new disaster scale being called the Balls scale is really fitting.

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  @DeniseFaraday · 3 years ago

  Hey John, though I&apos;ve only been a South Floridian since 1991, after the Surfside collapse last year, it became clear how most of these condos were cheaply made since the 70s because of kickbacks, mafia involvement, etc. &nbsp;<br><br>It seems like a couple of times a month since Surfside, we get news alerts about condo buildings in the area getting emergency evacuations of its tenants due to the building structures determined to be unsafe by engineers while the building is being reassessed by the state...and most of these evaluations are the 50-year reassessment type.<br><br>If the building needs to have a 50-year reassessment these days, it&apos;s time to shut things down, help tenants find alternate (and newer) places to live at and demolish the building, because any building made from the 70s weren&apos;t built the same as newer buildings are built these days with updated safety measures and rules in place..

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  @seanworkman431 · 3 years ago

  Concrete is fickle stuff, so easy to make mistakes and even easier to cut corners. When you understand how important it is to get it right, you are nothing short of evil for not doing so. I have seen new buildings, that sold off the plans, have exposed reinforcing clearly visible in the carpark, which of course is the sub structure holding everything else up. <br>In Sydney, Australia where I live, there is a building called the Opal Tower that was evacuated on Christmas day, as were many other nearby buildings, due to fear of a collapse. It &nbsp;didn&apos;t but might make a good story on this line of poor quality construction.

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