Pointing fingers for the Champlain Towers tragedy
When things go wrong, our culture has a habit of looking for someone to blame.
The president of the board of the Champlain Towers South, the Florida condominium that collapsed last week, along with three others on the seven-member board, resigned in frustration in 2019. She was frustrated that her repeated implorations to get the concrete fixed and to shore up the building were ignored. While the engineer, Frank P. Morabito, had found “major structural damage” to a concrete slab below the pool deck, caused by a flaw that limited water drainage, the condo owners accused the board of manipulating the report.