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Apartment collapse in Clemson, SC during party, many injured.

Downhome

Downhome

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Oct 27, 2017
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I live just down the road from Clemson so this is huge news here. Three different emergency helicopters from surrounding areas were dispatched. This was homecoming weekend and they were having a big party tonight to celebrate and the floor at the apartment collapsed because of too many people.

Here is a video from someone there as it happened...

https://twitter.com/pjg116/status/1053868774204600320?s=21

No word on other details, but here is one local news link so far.

https://www.foxcarolina.com/news/st...cle_ff205916-d4f2-11e8-8083-5b6be39942cd.html

EDIT:

Here is an even more insane video taken by one of the folks that fell through...

https://twitter.com/15_rissy_stone/status/1053896971512176640?s=21
 
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Downhome

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Local folks are saying uo to 200 folks were there, up to 16 critical, two dead. A horrible tragedy if that is even remotely true. It wouldn't shock me if it was the entire football team.
 
DeliciousSunnyD!

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Downhome said:
Local folks are saying uo to 200 folks were there, up to 16 critical, two dead. A horrible tragedy if that is even remotely true. It wouldn't shock me if it was the entire football team.
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Damn that's awful. The video looks pretty bad so I expect news to get worse about how many and how bad people have been hurt by this.
 
mbpm

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Yeesh, I'll be keeping this in mind if I ever go to an apartment party now.
 
androvsky

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Whenever I went to a frat party this was always my fear. Hope those who survived make a full recovery.



Geezus. Yeah if anyone was downstairs I don't see how you'd survive that.
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I'm hoping anyone down there got out when the people upstairs started jumping in unison, that had to be raining plaster and drywall before it gave way.
 
Vault Boy

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Horrible. I wonder if that was another apartment directly underneath. If so, I feel bad for the resident(s) of that one even before the accident.
 
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Downhome

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I am being told this was at the clubhouse at the apartment complex now, and it collapsed into the basement. It has not been confirmed though.
 
androvsky

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Going by the news story, it sounds like it was at the apartment complex's clubhouse, not a regular apartment. Although sometimes the clubhouse is just a regular apartment that residents can use.
 
TCi

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That's horrible.

So many people in an apartment... and jumping. If there were about 200, that is 14 tons with an average weight of 70kg. Standing still. Jumping is like 4-5 times that if I am not mistaken.
 
Elfotografoalocado

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I mean, if they were doing that in a regular apartment, I feel bad for the neighbors beneath even before this. First the people who threw this party were killing them with insane noise, now they just crush them to death
 
Frozenprince

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If it's true there were football players there and that there are fatalities this is going to snowball in a lot of directions.
 
ObbyDent

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fucking idiots. have some fucking responsiblity and recognize when something is dangerous. someone should be held responsible for the deaths.
 
args

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I remember this was always kind of a fear in the back of my head for all the frat parties I went to in college
 
Rover

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A party-sized crowd jumping together to the music is no fucking joke.

I was at a pizza place (now closed!) here in NYC while a party was going on on the floor above. You could hear a thunderous thump in time to the beat of the music as the crowd jumped together. The ceiling was literally bulging downwards and shaking as people jumped. I have no idea how they stayed open that night.
 
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