this is part of the ceiling structure. the drop panels. and how high was the ceiling? . to where the white is painted. that is where our drop ceiling came to. and then the rest was open above that. and then that s just gone. yeah. all gone, yes. all the duct work, all the electrical, hood. like i said, the hood is behind the building. just laying on the ground. that back there is where our dish sink and all that stuff is. that s actually still intact, too. but that was production back there. where we re standing is where our employees would be, where the customers would come in, we would be standing there to serve them. where is the counter? that was the cash register. it is right here? right underneath it. show me. the cash register is right there. so this is the counter. that s where people see the doughnuts right there?
couple years that raised questions about the building. i wonder, as you look at them, should these have raised major red flags? should these have created an immediate emergency to address potential structural problems, or was it more of a judgment call? i think it should have raised questions. what they said about deterioration and inadequate drainage and so on, those are long-term issues, not necessarily an immediate concern. but when they talked about not enough rebar and requiring drop panels, that should have been much more of a wake-up call. understood. well, listen, there are a lot of questions to be answered and it is early in the investigation. we always have to have that proviso, but shankar nair, thank you for your time. thank you. his mother and grandmother are still unaccounted for since
that clean break you see around the pool in the slab, that indicates there was a construction joint there. that means a joint between slabs at different times. and that s quite normal. but there should be a lot of reinforcing going across that joint, and the joint shows how much there should be. from what i saw, there appeared to be much less steel across that joint than there should have been. that alone could cause a collapse. so that raises this question, because we obtained documents that showed concerns were raised about the quality, the deterioration of concrete prior. here s part of a presentation that was delivered to residents just last december, a few months ago. it had a slide with this quote, and it said, install new drop panels at the three columns and strengthen several slabs. this, as you know, is one of several meetings, warnings in engineering reports the latst