I can’t stop thinking about those victims in Miami. Can we spell INFRASTRUCTURE?!?!? This is why a federal government was invented to put controls over profit maximizing building and safety code bypasses. What is DeSantis doing? Wouldn’t you be there digging through the rubble with your bare hands? Why does this not look like 9/11 re…
I can’t stop thinking about those victims in Miami. Can we spell INFRASTRUCTURE?!?!? This is why a federal government was invented to put controls over profit maximizing building and safety code bypasses. What is DeSantis doing? Wouldn’t you be there digging through the rubble with your bare hands? Why does this not look like 9/11 rescue efforts? My heart breaks for these families.
Actually, what I haven't seen in the news was the Urban Rescue staging area in my Miami Beach neighborhood, that I observed yesterday.
From a couple of e-mails I sent out:
Condo Collapse in Surfside
E-Mail - Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 11:42 AM
For those who have been following the Condo Collapse tragedy, the fact that it is rainy season complicates the rescue attempts, which I'm afraid by now is mostly a recovery attempt. They may soon bring in heavy equipment to remove the debris & deceased floor by floor.
Surfside for those who don't know borders Miami Beach to the north and this building at 8777 Collins was exactly one mile from my apt. In fact that oval hi-rise you see in the aerial shots borders the North Beach Oceanside Park where I do part of my bike exercise and watched its construction over the past few years. By the fact that it is taller than the other buildings makes me think that it is actually in Miami Beach, since Surfside has a limit on building heights at about 12 stories.
This building collapse was a surprise wake-up call for possibly many others from that era 40+ years ago that border the beach on Bal Harbour, Surfside & Miami Beach.
E-Mail - Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 11:00 PM
I wrote an e-mail this morning in the midst of a thunderstorm that popped up but it subsided and the sun came back out by 12:30 PM, so I took off to the library to return a couple videos and pick up some more.
I then decided to take the rainfree moment to do my bike exercise in the Park and Beach Walk. When I got to North Beach Oceanside Park, I noticed all the Urban Rescue and First Responder vehicles parked along Collins starting at 79th Street. So, I took a detour from my ride in the park and walked along Collins looking at the help from all around the state working on this tragedy in Surfside.
Just walking around taking pix, my tank top was soaked with sweat. Consider how it would be to do fysical exertion in this heat & humidity. Interspersed with pop-up thundershowers.
It's been 3 days but they say it is still considered a rescue operation, but the reality being a time consuming recovery operation is getting close.
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I sent a bunch of fotos in this e-mail of the various trucks from all over Florida parked end to end for half a mile along Collins Ave. from 79th St to beyond 85th St, the furthest I was allowed access. Also the air conditioned tents that filled the north end of the closed off park for the rescue workers. A couple of Miami Dade rescue workers I talked with said it was still a rescue mission but it has been 3-days and you can see the 12 floors stacked with no room between them. I suspect they will soon say it is a recovery mission and start tearing into the debris with heavy equipment.
Remembering Sept 11, 2001 - along with the nationwide outrage and anguish was a desire to help, to do anything. Being a regular blood donor since last century, I along with millions of others nationwide decided to donate for this major tragedy. My donation was on Sept 13, but it was not needed. There were very few injured, just 3K dead. In this similar but smaller bldg collapse, there are 156 ppl still missing with only 5 dead recovered so far.
“12 floors stacked with no room between them” so all that concrete just crumbled? You don’t think there are spaces where people could still be found alive? I know nothing of engineering but isn’t it bizarre that concrete walls just crumble? Especially if it gave way from the bottom? I can’t wrap my brain around this.
Yeah, IDK the specifics of construction, but from what I've seen, floors are poured solid concrete, with solid support beams & rebar holding them, with concrete blocks filling in the wall. If it collapsed on an angle, which the pic indicates since the floors look like steps, the beams & less solid CB would have fallen sideways & crumbled.
From local news, there are going to be thoro investigations and already increased inspections of similar buildings (Like the second version of this bldg, by the same company and the same age just up the street). Oh, and lawsuits are already being filed.
This USA Today clip suggests it started at the top which is different from most of the other guesses I’ve read so far talking about the need for repair at the bottom. Frightening to just see a condominium collapse like that. And reading of all the lives of those presumed to be inside is heart wrenching.
And in addition to strengthening building codes and digging through the rubble with his bare hands, DeSantis should be working on Climate change mitigation!!! Few states are as affected by rising sea levels more than Florida. Considering the incredibly porous old coral underneath what soil there is there, they are facing more problems like this and soon. Add in the horrific heat in the Pacific Northwest, the droughts across the West (and here in Minnesota) and the floods in the South, and climate should bubble to the top of the agenda- immediately after all the residents are accounted for. Heartbreaking and scary for all of us.
I read Bill McKibben's 'Climate Newsletter' in the New Yorker for all-round news on the topic. All these dreadful people who think only of the bottom line. I wonder what their children will think of them in 15-20 years?
You’re right about literally digging through rubble with bare hands. I work in emergency response, and my frustration was that urgency and immediate coordinated responsiveness were not more apparent, which does not mean the search and rescue efforts were not in fact underway.
“ Erika Benitez, the spokeswoman for the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, said that rescuers are moving as fast as they can and have not stopped working, even though their work looks slow. Rescue workers are taking a strategic approach, officials added, taking care to not shift the rubble, put excessive weight on it or cause another collapse. ‘Moving something that could cause an additional collapse would be negligent,’ Ms. Benitez said in Spanish.”
Oh, Ellie, that was a profound report making statistics of a tragedy so real and personal. Full of stories of the diversity of the people who were living or visiting that apartment complex, and most likely, have perished. Thank you, it makes the solemnity of Buddy's photo this morning all the more poignant. 😔
Yes, it’s beyond my imagination. I’m sitting out on our deck, drinking coffee with my husband, surrounded by the sprawl of today’s NYTimes… and it is so hard to enjoy this sliver of paradise while reading the article Ellie posted, as well as Rob’s on the ground reporting, and the plethora of coverage everywhere…..
my husband reminded me that last weekend we were mourning the tragedy of the school bus crash and the 9 children killed, of course the sadness and insane apprehension we are dealing with as every week we tabulate the numbers killed in random shootings anywhere and everywhere…. I don’t mean to pop anyone’s balloon but while the 24 hour news cycle certainly exacerbates the daily tragedies, as Ellie also said INFRASTRUCTURE!?! And let’s toss into that scream, CLIMATE CHANGE, and GUN CONTROL…. and softly in the background we can hear the rumbles of ‘Delta, Delta, Delta…. that will get louder and louder as the weeks go by…. I shudder to think how long it might be for hospitalizations and deaths start becoming part of the daily report again… Or much louder and bolder as it was last year.
So I’m not an alarmist, but if we all aren’t alarmed, angered, and saddened by this information exploding every day of our lives, I wonder if we’re all developing a numbing of sorts to inure us so that we can go on with our lives… who do we write a letter to? Who do we call? Where do we organize a protest or March….
It all makes me so mad. And breaks my heart. We’re on a runaway train and who is at the controls?!
Thank God for Joe Biden… I honestly believe he sees all this and truly aches for all of this, and all of us, and then there’s the international morass on his (our) plates too….but he can’t do this alone… I want to ‘storm’ the Republican Congressional members and confront them and say ‘do you not see the big picture here!? You are too busy playing bullies and ego wars to do anything meaningful to help with anything that is going on?!’
I know it’s not totally black and white, but this is so tragic… I really want to be a force for good, and at 70 years old I feel so limited in what affect my voice and my anguish can have… I will not despair, and I thank God, Heather, and you here at Heather’s Cafe to allow me to rant, cry, and beg for an answer to this mess we are in …. I will say that as silly as it may sound, I have really ramped up my determination to go out of my way, every day and with everyone I interact with to be as kind, patient, loving as possible, and I think I’ve always been a loving person, but now I’m on steroids…. I see that in others too, some others…. Please don’t think of this as ‘What would Pollyanna do?!’
It just seems like all I can do right now.
I’ve written letters, and I was really an activist in so many issues from my college years and + against Viet Nam, racial discrimination, care for the earth, and for the past decade I took up fighting to end poaching and desperately trying to raise money and awareness to save our spectacular species, the elephants….. but here I sit, so lucky in my little corner of the woods and so sad and helpless…..
I too have become even more determined in being as kind as possible to everyone I encounter these days, because everyone has even more burdens and worries that are not externally visible. I believe in the simple phrase, "Peace begins with me." Everything we do or say ripples outward and we can never know how a small kindness might affect many others.
Keep on being kind!! It is how I have raised my children.
Cynthia, between you, Ellie and my own intense feelings about so many things and losses, my grief came flooding through this morning and was unstoppable. Felt like more water coming from my eyes than my hose on my thirsty, young plants. And everything I thought about with our Constitutional crisis, the frustration of everything and all the ills we should be focusing on but instead are forced to deal with the survival of our democracy. Our sanity. All our people this time. Efforts seem so pale and impotent over greed and white supremacy and pandemic. I am not beat, but I need to feel this grief and let it roll from my heart down my cheeks. And the one word that keeps rising is "powerless."
Powerless. The only way I know to get my power to rise back up with a vengeance is to step back and recalibrate. I realized that July 4th marks the three years since my husband had a stroke and died month later. I need a break from saving the world and helping clients to taking care of myself. But the grief is for all the trauma of the past five years, all the trauma of how unfair life is because of skin pigmentation, silver spoons, luck of the draws. Time to garden and re-plant seeds of strength because I now understand how big this fight is going to be. Thank goodness I trust our souls to listen to those who went before us and taught us what must happen this time to truly be free, to evolve. It has to begin deep inside and is all about perspective. Makes me think of Elie Wiesel. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ghandhi. Young Poet, Amanda Gorman. Young climate activist, Greta Gorman. I think I will cultivate all the inspiring people and leaders today and who went before us into my garden. They stood up because they loved their fellow human beings. Love is a mighty tool-- I look forward to returning here with a fetching bucketload for anyone who needs some! (Now we will see if I can really stay away from this dear community that helps keep me sane!).
Oh dear Penelope. I am so sorry for your loss and that it happened on a celebratory holiday. The good thing about groups is that others are here to carry on while you step back to spend time with your husband’s memories and feed your soul. You already do work with youths to help heal their troubles and find a way to make this world a better place. It’s an irony of life that we have to know pain and sorrow in order to know joy. Love gets us there and is our superpower! We’ll keep the light on!
Penelope...I am headed up to 'call it a day'...the 'land of nod' beckons... but I want you to know, that I am going to sleep with you in my heart... I am really hoping, and actually believing \, that you are following a breeze that captured you! I hope you just do whatever you want to do...and if you change your mind in 3 days or 3 months...switch tracks... just let yourself find anything or nothing... You have a safe place here ion you ever want to stop be! (I feel like I am trying to give a really meaningful 'speech' to my daughter upon her 'send off' to college!
Thanks, Penelope, for taking time off to regroup. Yes, you need to refuel b/c there's more to do but yours is a good example of taking a break when needed. Goodluck. I look forward to your return.
I agree, Ellie, I can't stop thinking of all of them too, the victims, families and friends. SO sad. The serenity of Buddy's photo makes me grateful for my blessings.
Thank you, Ellie! Has anyone ever compiled a list (I know it would be SO long!) of all the disasters, construction, environmental, and now climate related, that were directly caused by incompetence and neglect on the part of private corporations maximizing profit over life that could have been averted by government oversight? Or that later prompted such to be enacted? It would be helpful to have in the back pocket when the subject of big government comes up in conversation with libertarians masquerading as republicans.
Finally, here is the news of the search efforts, including expert teams from other states and countries and with search dogs. It was puzzling that there was only one story of finding a survivor alive, that I saw—a 12 or 13 year old boy whose arm was sticking out of the rubble. Hopefully there are more whose stories simply were not reported or just missed. The search and rescue people are truly heroic.
I can’t stop thinking about those victims in Miami. Can we spell INFRASTRUCTURE?!?!? This is why a federal government was invented to put controls over profit maximizing building and safety code bypasses. What is DeSantis doing? Wouldn’t you be there digging through the rubble with your bare hands? Why does this not look like 9/11 rescue efforts? My heart breaks for these families.
https://apnews.com/article/miami-immigration-religion-health-coronavirus-pandemic-ded76155a33b0b0e092ef67b4455b333
Actually, what I haven't seen in the news was the Urban Rescue staging area in my Miami Beach neighborhood, that I observed yesterday.
From a couple of e-mails I sent out:
Condo Collapse in Surfside
E-Mail - Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 11:42 AM
For those who have been following the Condo Collapse tragedy, the fact that it is rainy season complicates the rescue attempts, which I'm afraid by now is mostly a recovery attempt. They may soon bring in heavy equipment to remove the debris & deceased floor by floor.
Surfside for those who don't know borders Miami Beach to the north and this building at 8777 Collins was exactly one mile from my apt. In fact that oval hi-rise you see in the aerial shots borders the North Beach Oceanside Park where I do part of my bike exercise and watched its construction over the past few years. By the fact that it is taller than the other buildings makes me think that it is actually in Miami Beach, since Surfside has a limit on building heights at about 12 stories.
This building collapse was a surprise wake-up call for possibly many others from that era 40+ years ago that border the beach on Bal Harbour, Surfside & Miami Beach.
E-Mail - Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 11:00 PM
I wrote an e-mail this morning in the midst of a thunderstorm that popped up but it subsided and the sun came back out by 12:30 PM, so I took off to the library to return a couple videos and pick up some more.
I then decided to take the rainfree moment to do my bike exercise in the Park and Beach Walk. When I got to North Beach Oceanside Park, I noticed all the Urban Rescue and First Responder vehicles parked along Collins starting at 79th Street. So, I took a detour from my ride in the park and walked along Collins looking at the help from all around the state working on this tragedy in Surfside.
Just walking around taking pix, my tank top was soaked with sweat. Consider how it would be to do fysical exertion in this heat & humidity. Interspersed with pop-up thundershowers.
It's been 3 days but they say it is still considered a rescue operation, but the reality being a time consuming recovery operation is getting close.
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I sent a bunch of fotos in this e-mail of the various trucks from all over Florida parked end to end for half a mile along Collins Ave. from 79th St to beyond 85th St, the furthest I was allowed access. Also the air conditioned tents that filled the north end of the closed off park for the rescue workers. A couple of Miami Dade rescue workers I talked with said it was still a rescue mission but it has been 3-days and you can see the 12 floors stacked with no room between them. I suspect they will soon say it is a recovery mission and start tearing into the debris with heavy equipment.
Thanks for your first-hand report of this dreadful tragedy, Rob.
Remembering Sept 11, 2001 - along with the nationwide outrage and anguish was a desire to help, to do anything. Being a regular blood donor since last century, I along with millions of others nationwide decided to donate for this major tragedy. My donation was on Sept 13, but it was not needed. There were very few injured, just 3K dead. In this similar but smaller bldg collapse, there are 156 ppl still missing with only 5 dead recovered so far.
Take care of yourself, Rob.
Thank you for your reportIng, Rob.
Thank you for this on-the-scene account. Such an unthinkable tragedy.
How very sad. But thank you, Rob, for a first-hand report.
“12 floors stacked with no room between them” so all that concrete just crumbled? You don’t think there are spaces where people could still be found alive? I know nothing of engineering but isn’t it bizarre that concrete walls just crumble? Especially if it gave way from the bottom? I can’t wrap my brain around this.
Yeah, IDK the specifics of construction, but from what I've seen, floors are poured solid concrete, with solid support beams & rebar holding them, with concrete blocks filling in the wall. If it collapsed on an angle, which the pic indicates since the floors look like steps, the beams & less solid CB would have fallen sideways & crumbled.
From local news, there are going to be thoro investigations and already increased inspections of similar buildings (Like the second version of this bldg, by the same company and the same age just up the street). Oh, and lawsuits are already being filed.
This USA Today clip suggests it started at the top which is different from most of the other guesses I’ve read so far talking about the need for repair at the bottom. Frightening to just see a condominium collapse like that. And reading of all the lives of those presumed to be inside is heart wrenching.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/06/26/building-collapse-multiple-factors-could-contribute-experts-say/5350661001/
Dear God….
Thank you, Rob, for sharing your in-person report of this tragedy. Please stay safe.
Thank you, Rob, for your on the scene report. Stay well!
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And in addition to strengthening building codes and digging through the rubble with his bare hands, DeSantis should be working on Climate change mitigation!!! Few states are as affected by rising sea levels more than Florida. Considering the incredibly porous old coral underneath what soil there is there, they are facing more problems like this and soon. Add in the horrific heat in the Pacific Northwest, the droughts across the West (and here in Minnesota) and the floods in the South, and climate should bubble to the top of the agenda- immediately after all the residents are accounted for. Heartbreaking and scary for all of us.
I read Bill McKibben's 'Climate Newsletter' in the New Yorker for all-round news on the topic. All these dreadful people who think only of the bottom line. I wonder what their children will think of them in 15-20 years?
Today's bottom line. This will cost exponentially more down the road.
No Desantis should not be digging and neither should anyone else who doesn't know what she or he is doing. Ever play pick up sticks?
You’re right about literally digging through rubble with bare hands. I work in emergency response, and my frustration was that urgency and immediate coordinated responsiveness were not more apparent, which does not mean the search and rescue efforts were not in fact underway.
“ Erika Benitez, the spokeswoman for the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, said that rescuers are moving as fast as they can and have not stopped working, even though their work looks slow. Rescue workers are taking a strategic approach, officials added, taking care to not shift the rubble, put excessive weight on it or cause another collapse. ‘Moving something that could cause an additional collapse would be negligent,’ Ms. Benitez said in Spanish.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/us/death-toll-rises-surfside.html
Oh, Ellie, that was a profound report making statistics of a tragedy so real and personal. Full of stories of the diversity of the people who were living or visiting that apartment complex, and most likely, have perished. Thank you, it makes the solemnity of Buddy's photo this morning all the more poignant. 😔
Yes, it’s beyond my imagination. I’m sitting out on our deck, drinking coffee with my husband, surrounded by the sprawl of today’s NYTimes… and it is so hard to enjoy this sliver of paradise while reading the article Ellie posted, as well as Rob’s on the ground reporting, and the plethora of coverage everywhere…..
my husband reminded me that last weekend we were mourning the tragedy of the school bus crash and the 9 children killed, of course the sadness and insane apprehension we are dealing with as every week we tabulate the numbers killed in random shootings anywhere and everywhere…. I don’t mean to pop anyone’s balloon but while the 24 hour news cycle certainly exacerbates the daily tragedies, as Ellie also said INFRASTRUCTURE!?! And let’s toss into that scream, CLIMATE CHANGE, and GUN CONTROL…. and softly in the background we can hear the rumbles of ‘Delta, Delta, Delta…. that will get louder and louder as the weeks go by…. I shudder to think how long it might be for hospitalizations and deaths start becoming part of the daily report again… Or much louder and bolder as it was last year.
So I’m not an alarmist, but if we all aren’t alarmed, angered, and saddened by this information exploding every day of our lives, I wonder if we’re all developing a numbing of sorts to inure us so that we can go on with our lives… who do we write a letter to? Who do we call? Where do we organize a protest or March….
It all makes me so mad. And breaks my heart. We’re on a runaway train and who is at the controls?!
Thank God for Joe Biden… I honestly believe he sees all this and truly aches for all of this, and all of us, and then there’s the international morass on his (our) plates too….but he can’t do this alone… I want to ‘storm’ the Republican Congressional members and confront them and say ‘do you not see the big picture here!? You are too busy playing bullies and ego wars to do anything meaningful to help with anything that is going on?!’
I know it’s not totally black and white, but this is so tragic… I really want to be a force for good, and at 70 years old I feel so limited in what affect my voice and my anguish can have… I will not despair, and I thank God, Heather, and you here at Heather’s Cafe to allow me to rant, cry, and beg for an answer to this mess we are in …. I will say that as silly as it may sound, I have really ramped up my determination to go out of my way, every day and with everyone I interact with to be as kind, patient, loving as possible, and I think I’ve always been a loving person, but now I’m on steroids…. I see that in others too, some others…. Please don’t think of this as ‘What would Pollyanna do?!’
It just seems like all I can do right now.
I’ve written letters, and I was really an activist in so many issues from my college years and + against Viet Nam, racial discrimination, care for the earth, and for the past decade I took up fighting to end poaching and desperately trying to raise money and awareness to save our spectacular species, the elephants….. but here I sit, so lucky in my little corner of the woods and so sad and helpless…..
I too have become even more determined in being as kind as possible to everyone I encounter these days, because everyone has even more burdens and worries that are not externally visible. I believe in the simple phrase, "Peace begins with me." Everything we do or say ripples outward and we can never know how a small kindness might affect many others.
Keep on being kind!! It is how I have raised my children.
Cynthia, between you, Ellie and my own intense feelings about so many things and losses, my grief came flooding through this morning and was unstoppable. Felt like more water coming from my eyes than my hose on my thirsty, young plants. And everything I thought about with our Constitutional crisis, the frustration of everything and all the ills we should be focusing on but instead are forced to deal with the survival of our democracy. Our sanity. All our people this time. Efforts seem so pale and impotent over greed and white supremacy and pandemic. I am not beat, but I need to feel this grief and let it roll from my heart down my cheeks. And the one word that keeps rising is "powerless."
Powerless. The only way I know to get my power to rise back up with a vengeance is to step back and recalibrate. I realized that July 4th marks the three years since my husband had a stroke and died month later. I need a break from saving the world and helping clients to taking care of myself. But the grief is for all the trauma of the past five years, all the trauma of how unfair life is because of skin pigmentation, silver spoons, luck of the draws. Time to garden and re-plant seeds of strength because I now understand how big this fight is going to be. Thank goodness I trust our souls to listen to those who went before us and taught us what must happen this time to truly be free, to evolve. It has to begin deep inside and is all about perspective. Makes me think of Elie Wiesel. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ghandhi. Young Poet, Amanda Gorman. Young climate activist, Greta Gorman. I think I will cultivate all the inspiring people and leaders today and who went before us into my garden. They stood up because they loved their fellow human beings. Love is a mighty tool-- I look forward to returning here with a fetching bucketload for anyone who needs some! (Now we will see if I can really stay away from this dear community that helps keep me sane!).
Oh dear Penelope. I am so sorry for your loss and that it happened on a celebratory holiday. The good thing about groups is that others are here to carry on while you step back to spend time with your husband’s memories and feed your soul. You already do work with youths to help heal their troubles and find a way to make this world a better place. It’s an irony of life that we have to know pain and sorrow in order to know joy. Love gets us there and is our superpower! We’ll keep the light on!
Good Morning Penelope💕
I am sorry for your grief and pain. Let it Flow, Please!
It's so good here, to know We Are Not Alone!!! Please take care of Yourself.
And Know that, Love is a Mighty Tool. Just like You said!!!💖
Penelope...I am headed up to 'call it a day'...the 'land of nod' beckons... but I want you to know, that I am going to sleep with you in my heart... I am really hoping, and actually believing \, that you are following a breeze that captured you! I hope you just do whatever you want to do...and if you change your mind in 3 days or 3 months...switch tracks... just let yourself find anything or nothing... You have a safe place here ion you ever want to stop be! (I feel like I am trying to give a really meaningful 'speech' to my daughter upon her 'send off' to college!
typos...grrr. ALWAYS...the last sentence should be 'You have a safe place here if you ever want to stop by... anyway, sweet dreams to all!
Thanks, Penelope, for taking time off to regroup. Yes, you need to refuel b/c there's more to do but yours is a good example of taking a break when needed. Goodluck. I look forward to your return.
Hi Cynthia,
Thank YOU for This, and ALL you've done. And ALL that YOU are Still doing!!! Your Heart is in the right place!😊💕
Thanks LouAnn, I have a hunch that most of us here have done all this and more…❤️
I agree, Ellie, I can't stop thinking of all of them too, the victims, families and friends. SO sad. The serenity of Buddy's photo makes me grateful for my blessings.
No words. Thanks, Ellie.
Thank you, Ellie! Has anyone ever compiled a list (I know it would be SO long!) of all the disasters, construction, environmental, and now climate related, that were directly caused by incompetence and neglect on the part of private corporations maximizing profit over life that could have been averted by government oversight? Or that later prompted such to be enacted? It would be helpful to have in the back pocket when the subject of big government comes up in conversation with libertarians masquerading as republicans.
Thank you for this report.
Hear, hear.
Finally, here is the news of the search efforts, including expert teams from other states and countries and with search dogs. It was puzzling that there was only one story of finding a survivor alive, that I saw—a 12 or 13 year old boy whose arm was sticking out of the rubble. Hopefully there are more whose stories simply were not reported or just missed. The search and rescue people are truly heroic.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/27/florida-building-collapse-search-efforts-aided-israeli-team/5363235001/
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