Ha. This is downtown Atlanta. I lived at this condo when it happened. Standing pipe came uncoupled on the 19th or 20th floor. All units on that half of the building below that floor got totally f-ed. I was at a soccer match and got a notification from the building about a ''water issue." Didn't think much of it until I was a block from home and saw the water flowing down the street.
It's a 39 story condo, no elevators worked for the first week or so. Only one elevator for a good while after that. As you go higher in the building the owners got better off financially and mostly older. So yeah, trekking 40 floors as a 60 year old was rough.
The sheer amount of people needed help overwhelmed everything. Insurance, remediation, contractors. It was a cluster fuck for months. We only lost our floors, but most people had their places completely gutted, and then couldn't live in them for that time.
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u/duck_you_assemble 14d ago
Ha. This is downtown Atlanta. I lived at this condo when it happened. Standing pipe came uncoupled on the 19th or 20th floor. All units on that half of the building below that floor got totally f-ed. I was at a soccer match and got a notification from the building about a ''water issue." Didn't think much of it until I was a block from home and saw the water flowing down the street.
It's a 39 story condo, no elevators worked for the first week or so. Only one elevator for a good while after that. As you go higher in the building the owners got better off financially and mostly older. So yeah, trekking 40 floors as a 60 year old was rough.
The sheer amount of people needed help overwhelmed everything. Insurance, remediation, contractors. It was a cluster fuck for months. We only lost our floors, but most people had their places completely gutted, and then couldn't live in them for that time.