That tropical depression was nothing
That is correct that the storm was nothing. I don't think it could have gotten stronger but in this case I doubt it
It's always possible that they made a bad call, unless that building was really that unstable to sustain heavy rain (I had the tropical storm come through my area, 2.5 hours north of Miami-Dade County and it was just a heavy rain storm). I wouldn't surprise me if the building was that unstable given how messed up Miami-Dade has been for decades.
Some do, some don't. I doubt that the building just collapsed on its own. I don't know why it happened, but it did, and any explanation seems canned.
My explanation as a Floridian myself is it's Miami-Dade County and they're one of the three Problematic Counties (the other two are Broward and Palm Beach, people from Palm Beach agree with me on this one). They probably haven't kept up well on building regs and inspections the way they should. In 2018 there was , so this is almost no surprise to me that part of this building collapsed.
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