Apartment building collapse - Davenport, Iowa

[Rhansen]

An apartment building near me collapsed Sunday, people missing, plenty of drama for the news, desperate need for an investigation...

Two recent articles

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/30/us/davenport-iowa-apartment-collapse-demolition-tuesday/index.html

Contractor said he warned of Davenport building collapse, told workers 'Get away. You’re going to die'

About three months before the partial collapse of a downtown Davenport apartment building — and again just two days before — a masonry company owner said he predicted it was

qctimes.com

same building in 2020

https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/falling-building-debris-closes-davenport-main-street/526-74cfa34f-cb56-4b1b-9d71-2557e85f1fc5

shady dealings, I am sure. There's also an engineers report I need to find...

Then my nephew sends me a twitter post this morning claiming this same building was demolished by drones:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1663927757154156544

Sigh.

 

[Rhansen]

 

[Cosmos]

Then my nephew sends me a twitter post this morning claiming this same building was demolished by drones:

That was probably the video department accidentally putting the wrong footage into the Drone Strike footage.

 

[stellar]

This 116 year old building is owned by Andrew Wold. The family has an interesting name origin and family crest.
The Wold surname comes from a Scandinavian personal name, which came from the Old Norse "Valþiófr," composed of the elements "val" meaning "battle," and "þiofr," or "thief."