Condos All Over America Come Under Scrutiny-Inhabitants Scared To Death

"Scared to death" is a common theme these days. The very concept is absurd.

Hundreds of years ago, when death was far more probable, people weren't so frightened.

Your chances of dying in a building collapse in the USA is parts per million. But people still drive cars and smoke substances and get fat and lazy.

The age of mindless wussy male neurotics is here.

It always amazes me that around 35,000 people are killed in cars every year and hard telling how many are injured enought to spend one or more nights in the hospital, no one is interisted in that.

Let just one building a year with around 250 people fall down and it makes the news for weeks.

Surfside catastrophe raises concerns about San Francisco's sinking Millennium Tower

It's just tilting a little. The big concern is how ugly it is. Unfortunately, it will be fixed.

18 inches is a huge settlement- and unlikely to be even. Last I read the underpinning project with new piers was $200M. It would have been so much easier to do it right the first time. It takes an unimaginable lack of judgment and idiocy to use an experimental pier technology on a building of that size. Experiments are reserved for cheap builds if at all.

Most engineering things have a real-life feedback loop. Things have to go wrong before standards and enforcement ensure that they won't go wrong again.

Newer buildings here are anchored on bedrock. Lesson learned.

There are places where driving down to bedrock just isn't possible. New Orleans. Venice.