I look at the pile of rubble sort of bewildered. We are all of the one mind when we say the mall roof was going to collapse and it did as predicted.
We know the section that fell , it is between the upper level of the Hotel and the escalator .
We lived with that for years and time and time again we were told the building was safe and sound.
As tragic and catastrophic as the event was , it is not likely that Zeller would cave in and The whole of The Algo Inn and all of Foodland all at once . The building is not made with dominoes and whomever said it was all caving in made a wrong assumption. Everything is still there to date except what they demolished with the monster crane and equipment.
My guess is the escalator would still be there and once the slabs fell nothing else was going to follow for a long time to come other that a few loose pieces .I can make assuptions as much as the other guy.
The clincher may be when the Insurance companies question the whole package deal and refuse to pay because the evidence is gone and they can't find just cause for all the damages and for everyone not mitigating their losses. I am not saying this will happen , but I would not be surprised if it did.
Zellers could have been emptied , we know that now.
Foodland, The Library and actually everything outside of the collapsed section including the cars they crushed.
Coverup or panic or insufficent knowledgeand poor assesment of the situation it is all in hindsight.
The rescue group had never done something like this, actualy they had never done anything other than one natural gas explosion in ten years in Toronto.
Meanwhile the Elliot Lake victims were left to die as the operation was aborted and while experienced well trained miners and a Professional Internetional Rescue Team were denied access.
