"Dozens of fire department personnel responded to a parking deck collapse in Charlotte Tuesday morning."

But wait - I thought the fire departments were made of omnipotent supermen who can stop this from happening!

"What is with parking decks in Charlotte? Wasn't there another parking structure in Charlotte that collapsed a few months ago?"

Yep. Right across the street. If I had to live in Charlotte, I'd probably collapse too!

If people will remember back to when a section of the Crabtree deck collapsed, the suppier of the precast parts determined that the proceedures were not adequate to ensure hte reinforcing was in the right place all the time. Because of this, dozens of decks with precast from this same supplier were checked and some remediation had to be done on a few to ensure safety.

I have no idea if this deck has parts from them, but it is possible that it does and is now failing. However, the previous partial collapse at Southpark Mall that was mentioned by the article was caused by a vehicle hitting a part of the deck that supported the road surface. It was 100% not the fault of the materials or construction methods. It is just as likely that this collapse is also due to some external force and not a problem, we will have to wait for more info to see.

Nice...I don't think we'll be making any trips to the South Park mall when we go back to Charlotte.

Wonder if it was constructed by the same company that built that collapsed walkway at Lowes Motor Speedway ?