Warwick1991
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Wasn't it said that the pool was on the 2nd floor? If so, it sounds as if the building pancaked from bottom to top, as this (missing) person on the 4th floor watched the pool cave in.
From her fourth-floor balcony, Cassandra Stratton, 40, was on the phone with her husband as she watched the pool cave in, feeling the tremor, her older sister Ashley Dean said. She described the quake, and then, in a moment, the line cut off.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...live-updates/#link-7WZEI43MSBCF3N5WMRBRJJYMZI
From looking at pre-collapse photos, it looks like the pool may have been above at least part of the parking garage. That is a common design in the area because the sites for these kinds of buildings are usually too tight to allow enough land for a pool on the ground. I’ve been in other buildings in the area that have the pool above the garage, with the requisite heavy structural members in the garage to carry the load of a pool filled with water above.
Taking another look at post-collapse photos, the pool is still recognizable and may still be at least partially intact. Perhaps it is cracked and not fully caved in. Like so much of this situation, many unanswered questions.
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