Two Montreal women lost in collapse
Another story being noted is the sad end of two young Montreal women who were taking a quick break in Florida last month and were staying in the Champlain Towers South building when it collapsed. One of the bodies still has not been found.
Update: They’ve found the second woman.
david884 01:41 on 2021-07-22 Permalink
McGill recent graduate too.
Very sad that what is just a bad decision – ie. to stay up in Surfside instead of on Miami Beach – would cost them their lives.
Imagine that because you stayed up in Crémazie instead of on the Plateau, you ended up getting crushed in a building. Very random and dark.
Tim 11:00 on 2021-07-22 Permalink
Suggesting that they made a “bad decision” is extremely insensitive and presumptuous DavidX. Using this logic, I suppose a pedestrian mowed down by a car made a “bad decision” to not walk on the other side of the road?
david82 11:11 on 2021-07-22 Permalink
I missed that they were staying with the one girl’s father. I guess it wasn’t really a bad choice in the sense that I meant, which was that staying way up in Surfside is vastly inferior to staying down on Miami Beach. They just stayed where it was free.
Kate 14:29 on 2021-07-23 Permalink
They just stayed where it was free
The more you say on this thread, david, the further that foot goes into your mouth.
They were young women, friends who’d just finished their degrees, and having a little break together before they went their separate ways for their careers. And they stayed where they could afford to stay.
david255 18:31 on 2021-07-23 Permalink
Hey man, I was just saying that if you’re going to Miami and you’re young and fancy free, staying up in Surfside only makes sense if it’s free, because you’re much better off down Miami Beach way, in Brickell, up Edgewater near 27th (Wynwood), etc. Vacationing in Surfside is like vacationing on Nun’s Island or something – boring and super far away. It’s a tragedy that they croaked, and my initial comment was an insouciant comment to the effect of ‘imaging that staying on the equivalent of Nun’s Island, an obviously bad idea, actually ended up costing you your life.”
CE 19:36 on 2021-07-23 Permalink
“Insouciant” is a pretty good way to describe almost everything you post here David~. You seemed to be pointlessly obsessed with getting a couple digs in at Surfside despite the fact that nobody here cares much about the quality of one part of Miami over another (and I’ve been to Miami Beach, nice architecture but not much else going for it).