[ExI] florida building collapse

[Adrian Tymes]

(Quoting Spike's letter in full to preserve the photos.)

It looks to me like there is still water in the left (deeper) side of the
pool, and that the collapsed area - at least the surface part - does not
quite intersect the pool, though the debris suggests the collapse might
have intersected the pool's plumbing, draining part but not all of the
pool.  Just to the pool's right, there is more than enough collapsed space
for most of the pool's water to have sloshed out onto - thus, there's no
need to speculate about whether the sinkhole itself was wet or dry, when
the "missing" water could have spilled out on top of the collapse (and then
evaporated).

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:57 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
>
>
> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] florida building collapse
>
>
>
> >…Maybe she just noticed the swimming pool empty because she didn't have
> line of sight to see what was happening to the lower floors of the building
> she was in?  spike
>
>
>
>
>
> Adrian help me make sense of this photo pls:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> The woman who was on the phone told her husband that the pool deck had
> caved in:
>
>
>
>
>
> We can see the pool deck has dropped down looks like a good coupla meters
> and I can see the pool is empty, but I don’t see water over the dropped
> pool deck.
>
>
>
> What does that tell us?  Where did the pool water go?  Usually a sinkhole
> is an underground cave filled with water, but this one didn’t have water
> down there.  I can’t figure out why because the sea level is only a few ft
> below that bottom floor.  Where I cheerfully squandered my tragically
> misspent childhood, a young miscreant could not dig a hole deeper than
> about 5 ft before hitting mud.  Another ft below that, the hole would fill
> with water as fast as she could haul it out.
>
>
>
> I don’t understand how there could have been a big dry underground cave,
> but the initial photos suggested it: 12 stories of debris would make a
> taller pile than it looks like, unless a good portion of the debris is
> currently below the surrounding ground level.
>
>
>
> Imagine the psychological impact for anyone, particularly Floridians, who
> live or work in high rise buildings.  Every time they hear a creak or pop,
> they will hafta wonder if their time on this mortal coil is drawing to an
> abrupt close within seconds.  That would hafta break one’s concentration.
>
>
>
> spike
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20210628/a384ce19/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 39639 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20210628/a384ce19/attachment-0002.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 11017 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20210628/a384ce19/attachment-0003.jpg>