And as waters keep rising, it will eventually render some places permanently uninhabitable. The two feet of sea level rise expected by 2060 will swamp septic tanks, homes, parks and roads. Recall the 2016 photo of an octopus finding its way up a drainpipe into a Miami Beach condo’s garage. Low-lying garages in South Florida have flooded for years, some famously so. No matter what, if any, role rising seas played in the collapse, there is no escaping the rising risks to Surfside and other coastal communities up and down the Florida coast. our experts will be looking at every aspect, above and below ground, for potential triggers.” A Rising Threat “The slab appears to be intact and there is no obvious sinkhole,” Huergo said.
our experts will be looking at every aspect, above and below ground, for potential triggers.” Jennifer Huergo, a spokesperson for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency investigating the cause of the collapse, agreed she did not see an obvious sinkhole in a photo provided by the Miami Herald, but a formal engineering assessment has not been completed and results will not be released for some time. The “sinkhole” a doomed resident saw opening from her balcony in a final phone conversation was likely not erosion beneath the building but the implosion of the concrete pool deck above the garage floor - the seeming trigger event of a massive and still unresolved structural failure. The garage floor, the building’s lowest level, remains in one piece with no craters or potholes suggesting unseen geological forces were at work. There were no telltale signs of a sinkhole.
Scraped clean of tons of rubble late last month, the bare garage floor of Champlain Towers South appears to rule out at least one early suspect in its catastrophic collapse.
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