Last week, a 12 story condo tower in Surfside FL collapsed into a 30-foot pile of broken concrete and mangled metal.
The death toll kept creeping upward over the weekend as hope of finding survivors among over 150 unaccounted for people began to diminish.
Efforts have been focused on the rescue and recovery. But demand for answers as to how this occurred is growing.
As I write this over the weekend, I am going to make some predictions regarding the events leading up to this tragedy.
1) We're going to find out there were long overdue repairs that the owners of the building delayed trying to save a buck.
2) Any kind of regulatory oversight was undermined by a repeal of laws or regulations designed to insure the safety of buildings and their residents or funding and staffing was gutted due to budget cuts in deference to tax cuts reducing the ability of those charged with government oversight.
I've seen this sort of thing play out too many times to not anticipate some short coming in the name of cutting regulations or saving money.
Maybe as hundreds of people anxiously await word of missing friends and family, it is too soon to look to blame someone.
Maybe it is and maybe I am wrong.
But if history is any guide, I do not expect to be proven wrong.
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