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After the fall of a Florida condo, some residents confront their future on the coast

After the fall of a Florida condo, some residents confront their future on the coast Jenny Jarvie © Provided by The LA Times Rescue workers work in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., on June 25, 2021. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press) Sitting on his balcony, watching palm trees sway in front of the turquoise blue of the Atlantic Ocean, Christian Ginman could no longer just enjoy the view. He kept thinking about the collapse of the Champlain Towers South less than a week ago, and how the building fell without warning in the middle of the night, 13 floors pancaking into a mountain of debris. He owns a weekend apartment five blocks away.

After fall of Florida condo, coastal residents are worried

More Coverage The cause of the Champlain’s sudden and spectacular fall Thursday remained undetermined. Some engineering experts say the collapse may have been due to a rare confluence of structural deficiencies and lack of maintenance in a coastal area where buildings are particularly vulnerable to corrosion from saltwater and salt air. For many who live in Surfside, the disaster has fueled anxiety about the challenges of maintaining local residential buildings. A string of mid-rise and high-rise condos some decades old, others brand new loom over the Atlantic shoreline sitting on a plateau of limestone, a porous rock that allows rising seawater to seep up from below.

Before condo collapse, rising seas have long pressured Miami coastal properties

Rising sea levels have long pressured Miami coastal properties