Sara went to the lobby to complain to security guard Shamoka Furman. They heard banging noises from above and a boom-boom-boom sequence, “like someone was moving furniture or hammering picture hangers into the walls,” Nir said. Gabe was cooking salmon, Chana was in the shower after a babysitting job and Sara was typing on her cell phone. On the night of the collapse, Nir, his mother Sara and his sister Chana were awake inside unit 111, right next to the pool deck. I stay up at night to make sure we’re safe.” “When Champlain went down, I asked my mom, ‘Is this Round 2?’” Nir said. Nir remembers waking up in the middle of the night, coughing and blinded by smoke. Five years ago their house in Atlanta caught fire and burned to the ground. Survival comes with a high price.”ĭepression, anxiety, insomnia, guilt, post-traumatic stress disorder, headaches, flashbacks - especially when he enters buildings or elevators: The Champlain South survivors will never be the same. It infuriates me when people say we’re a miracle family. “Well-meaning people tell us we should be thankful we’re alive and assume after two years we’ve recovered,” Nir said. When one of them says, “I’ll see you at home,” it sounds strange, false. They’ve lost any sense of home, what it means to be home. They’re still living out of suitcases, filled with the clothes they’ve acquired since they lost everything. The Nirs have lived like nomads in hotels, apartments and now a rented house in Aventura, sometimes pushed out of their temporary quarters by rental rates that are the highest in the country. That feeling of imbalance and disorientation has been exacerbated by all the moving. Some days I can’t even go out because I’m too dizzy.” I’ve been hospitalized five times with vertigo. “I feel like my body and my brain are still in a state of shock and I’ve never really processed what happened,” he said. The terror revisits each of them at unpredictable moments and most often at night. They estimated repairs would cost more than $9 million, but those repairs were never completed.Nir, his mother and his sister ran for their lives. Morabito Consultants, a structural engineering firm, was hired by the condo association in 2018 to conduct the inspection and reported, among other things, concrete structural damage to concrete structural slabs on the pool deck due to failed waterproofing. ![]() ![]() The Champlain towers were in the process of recertification when part of the building came crashing down. The way you combat that is with good quality solid weatherproofing and paint and those repairs need to be identified when they happen and repaired in order to maintain the strength and integrity of the building," Peter Dyga, the president and CEO of Associated Builders & Contractors, Florida East Coast Chapter (a national construction industry trade association), told ABC News.Īfter a Miami-area building collapse in 1974, county lawmakers enacted a mandatory inspection for commercial and residential buildings 40 years after they're constructed. ![]() ![]() "The most common problems are weather intrusions. The work was later completed and certified to the city in November 1997, according to documents obtained by ABC News.
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