"For the next 40 or 50 years, Florida’s going to have rough go of it."
-- Robert MacLeod, director of the University of South Florida’s School of Architecture and Community Design
As the dust cleared on the rubble from Thursday’s partial collapse of a condo building in Surfside, structural engineers and residents of high-rise towers both had a similar question.
What happened? And could it happen to my building?
At 40 years old, Champlain Towers South is hardly unique in Florida, where the coasts are dotted with decades-old condo towers.
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