DeSantis for the win

[gwb-trading]

You would think that DeSantis would do something about this to fix it.... but he's not.

Florida state legislature diverted 40% of condo owner association fees into general fund since 2008
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-state-legislature-condo-owner-association-fees-general-fund

 

[El OchoCinco]

It sounds like you are saying when one is dissatisfied with a lower authority, the higher authority must act. Should the next step be send Kamala to the beach (maybe Malibu?) to fix things?

Surfside, Florida is in Miami-Dade county. Take a guess which political party has been in power there for a long time.

this is not about party which is your weak ass fall back... this is about leadership..... if there is a problem the Governor should step in and lend a hand with his authority instead of shaft stroking his base to go for 2024 nomination.. plain and simple. If there are buildings at issue and there is no central authrity to review them, the position that the Governor is going to wash his hands of it is stupid.

 

[ph1l]

there is no central authrity to review them

I was trying to point out the county government is the central authority for inspecting most buildings in a given county in Florida -- and they have some work to do.
https://www.miamidade.gov/building/building-inspections.asp

 

[gwb-trading]

"DeSantis for the win" -- Florida is a COVID hot-zone

COVID TROUBLE FLORIDA: KINSA Reveals What DeSantis Won’t
https://bocanewsnow.com/2021/07/12/covid-trouble-florida-kinsa-reveals-what-desantis-wont/

Florida is heading back into a COVID-19 trouble zone.

While the Florida Department of Health has reduced its public reporting to just a weekly update under the direction of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Kinsa says Florida is one of six states with troubling indicators. Kinsa is the company behind the “connected” thermometer, which compiles real-time illness data and compares it to what’s normal. Kinsa was credited by health officials worldwide for accurate predicting COVID-19 spread in the early days of the pandemic.

Now, Kinsa says Florida is back to moderate risk, after leveling off at “low risk” for the past few months.

The issue? Kinsa says Florida’s lower than average vaccination rate is a problem.

From Kinsa: “Six states are bearing the brunt of the new outbreaks. HealthWeather shows that Nevada, Wyoming, Missouri and Arkansas all remain at elevated risk, with Florida and Louisiana rising to moderate risk. Each of these states has a lower-than-average vaccination rate.”

he update may instigate a review of policies set for area school districts set to reopen in just weeks for the 2021-2022 school year. A surge in cases could force school districts to require masks, additional social distancing in age groups where vaccines are not yet available. View the Kinsa HealthWeather Map, here.

…Developing…

 

[gwb-trading]

"DeSantis for the win" -- Florida leads the nation in COVID positive test rate. Note that most states which are not infection hotbeds have positive test rates below 1%.

Florida COVID-19 cases spike, positivity rate rises above 7 percent
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs...s-spike-positivity-rate-rises-above-7-percent

Amid concerns about the potent Delta variant of the coronavirus, the number of cases of COVID-19 jumped in Florida last week, according to a report issued Friday by the state Department of Health.

The report showed Florida had confirmed 2,361,360 cases as of Thursday, an increase of 23,747 cases from a week earlier. Florida during the past week also exceeded 38,000 resident deaths since the pandemic started in early 2020.

As of Thursday, it totaled 38,157 deaths, an increase of 172 deaths from a week earlier. The number of confirmed cases has increased during the past two weeks. During the week that ended July 1, Florida saw an increase of 15,684 cases. Increases in the three previous weeks ranged from 10,095 cases to 11,454 cases, according to Department of Health reports.

In addition to the number of new cases, the rate of infection continued its upward climb to 7.8% overall. Last week, the state crossed the former threshold for removing the mask mandate in Orange County.

Locally, the infection rate was even more dire. Volusia County fared the worst, with a positivity rate of 13.3%. Seminole County followed behind, with 12.4% of tests coming back positive. Osceola and Orange both hovered a little over 8%.

 

[Snarkhund]

I was trying to point out the county government is the central authority for inspecting most buildings in a given county in Florida -- and they have some work to do.
https://www.miamidade.gov/building/building-inspections.asp

But building codes are at the State level. After the Long Beach quake in 1933 building codes were set statewide by Sacramento. Florida is different but the codes are still set by the state.

 

[ph1l]

But building codes are at the State level. After the Long Beach quake in 1933 building codes were set statewide by Sacramento. Florida is different but the codes are still set by the state.

Yes, and they already exist.
https://www.homeinspectionsmiamifl.com/services/40-year-building-recertification-miami/#:~:text=40 year recertification requires that,for 40 year building inspection.

https://southfloridahospitalnews.co...ot,the initiation of condemnation proceedings.

 

[El OchoCinco]

Yes, and they already exist.
https://www.homeinspectionsmiamifl.com/services/40-year-building-recertification-miami/#:~:text=40 year recertification requires that,for 40 year building inspection.
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40 years in a a hurricane zone with condos built basically on landfill seems too long a time period. I think Florida needs to change the law to be honest for oceanfront properties.

 

[Overnight]

40 years in a a hurricane zone with condos built basically on landfill seems too long a time period. I think Florida needs to change the law to be honest for oceanfront properties.

Limestone is a stupid-ass "bedrock" to build large buildings upon. All the engineering students who settled in FL when they were young, and stayed there because it was cheep, drank too much in the sun and shirked their science. None of them had geology majors in their inner-circles.

Morons.

P.S. El Gato, they have been there for a lot longer than 40 years. We have video proof! This is from 1984, nearly 40 years ago! Those condo buildings have been there for a lot longer than THAT!

Those buildings were not not new in 1984. Fughedabouddit.

 

[Snarkhund]

40 years in a a hurricane zone with condos built basically on landfill seems too long a time period. I think Florida needs to change the law to be honest for oceanfront properties.

Many are going to be torn down the occupants just don't know it yet.

When its clear that major repairs are needed some low-equity owners abandon their units. The remaining owners realize that their special assessments for repairs are now more than the value of the units and they also walk away. Its a death spiral leading to demolition... if anyone sees enough value to pay to redevelop. This could get ugly. Buildings could stand empty, condemned and decaying.

The truth is that steel reinforced concrete construction is rather short-lived in corrosive environments. Nothing we build is going to last very long because of it.

Roman concrete construction is still standing after 2000 years, some of it pristine like the Pantheon, because they mastered the chemistry and aggregation necessary to make good concrete that needed no reinforcement.