<div dir="ltr"><div>(Quoting Spike's letter in full to preserve the photos.)<br><br>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).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:57 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_5734879034853012887WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] florida building collapse<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…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<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Adrian help me make sense of this photo pls:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="588" height="274" style="width: 6.125in; height: 2.8541in;" id="gmail-m_5734879034853012887Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:17a53d3ce865b006a1"><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The woman who was on the phone told her husband that the pool deck had caved in:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="310" height="300" style="width: 3.2291in; height: 3.125in;" id="gmail-m_5734879034853012887Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:17a53d3ce876917eb2"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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