PHONE CALLS FROM THE WRECKAGE OF CHAMPLAIN TOWERS

 

This story is strange .. unexplained.. and emotional..

Two of the victims Arnie and Myriam Notkin, live in Apartment 302 and the family is still waiting to hear from them or maybe they have – the story is remarkable, if not gut wrenching.

Jake Samuelson their grandson says that his mother’s house line has been receiving calls from the Notkin’s landline phone that he said rested next to their bed in the now demolished condominium.

Imagine the notion of getting phone calls after the death.. Or presumed death in this instance. 

What makes this story even more chilling is how it joins the ranks of so many others--those from Fukushima that believed they were getting phantom calls after the tsunami in 2011.. The voice mails left by people on phones from Flight 93 before it crashed near Pittsburgh on 9/11..

There is something fascinating and morbid but also amazing and beautiful about these stories.. the connection we all have on this earthly dwelling is made easier with the internet of all things and the telephone system devised long before our life cycles..

The other evening, talk show host Clyde Lewis has a great program about this topic, and actually played the news audio about the phone calls in Florida.

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This story will undoubtedly continue to be emotional and brutal to the senses as it develops.. It already is, thus far.

Today a 7-year-old was discovered among the remains.. she was the daughter of a fire fighter from Miami firefighter..

And meanwhile: The city of North Miami Beach has ordered the immediate closure and evacuation of a condo building after a report submitted Friday determined the structure is unsafe, officials said.

Crestview Towers, about seven miles north of the Surfside condo building that collapsed last week, was deemed to be structurally and electrically unsafe based on a delinquent recertification report for the almost 50-year-old building, said City Manager Arthur H. Sorey III.