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.
The bridge that collapsed was because of women engineers.
They didn't exist in the 60's and 70's. I've lived in Miami since 1989, I have family in real estate development. I kind of get the gist of how things work around here. There was a big push in the early 2000's to put buildings up to code, particularly plumbing and electrical. Recently fire systems on Miami Beach have needed re-certification particularly with all the short term rentals and Hotels springing up.
This site probably would have cost a fortune to bring up to code and it was easier and cheaper to just knock it down. Bury the evidence and call it a wrap.
All it cost was 70 bodies.
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