Officials say 'Alligator Alcatraz' is ready to withstand hurricane season, but tents leaked after one rainstorm

[Cellblock2429]

It doesn't matter if you don't care about what happens to the detainees, but why wouldn't you care that 450 million in your tax dollars went to a company who was provided with specs to build a facility that can withstand a Category 2 hurricane, yet it floods in the very first summer shower mere days after it was completed?

/——/ Oh, cry me a river.

 

[Delldude]

It doesn't matter if you don't care about what happens to the detainees, but why wouldn't you care that 450 million in your tax dollars went to a company who was provided with specs to build a facility that can withstand a Category 2 hurricane, yet it floods in the very first summer shower mere days after it was completed?

Inch and a half of rain......mere shower?

“Any seam that had an issue where there was water leakage has already been fixed overnight,” DeSantis’ communications director, Bryan Griffin, told reporters following a press conference Wednesday.
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FDEM spokesperson Stephanie Hartman wrote in a statement that vendors had tightened any seams at the base of the structures that allowed water to come in during the storm. She described the water intrusion as minimal.

 

[JGalt]

Those on the fascist right don’t care about the well-being of immigrants unlawfully detained.

This is the heinous cruelty of conservatives, who take joy and pleasure seeing immigrants suffer.

They're not "immigrants", they're illegals. And criminals should suffer the consequences for breaking the law.

 

[luiza]

You would think that one would eventually develop an immunity to the idiocy that is one display over and over again, but surprisingly it doesn't work that way. I'm still surprise to discover that I am genuinely disappointed by this news. It is alleged that this venture cost $450 million dollars and was built in 8 days. Doesn't that just reek of shoddiness and incompetence?

The facility — which was built in eight days — can withstand Category 2 winds, officials say​

By Chloe Greenberg on Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 1:13 pm


Official White House photo by Daniel Torok

Florida's newly opened immigrant detention center in the Everglades experienced water leaks after a thunderstorm Tuesday afternoon, while officials have maintained that the facility will be able to withstand hurricane season.

The storm came after the so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" opened Tuesday with a celebratory visit from President Trump and other state and federal officials. The 3,000-capacity tent center is comprised of aluminum frame tents which hold bunk beds inside metal cages. Detainees will be held here while awaiting deportation, officials say.

Following the grand opening, Spectrum News 13 Florida Capitol correspondent Jason Delgado shared video footage to X of water seeping into one of the tents and creating puddles amid the storm.

Meanwhile, Florida's head of emergency management Kevin Guthrie maintains that the facility — which was built in eight days — can withstand high-end Category 2 winds.

DeSantis administration officials say the leaks were fixed overnight.

“Any seam that had an issue where there was water leakage has already been fixed overnight,” DeSantis administration communications director Bryan Griffin said at a press conference Wednesday, as reported by the Florida Phoenix.

A huge story of a leaking tent in a multi million development project .
It seems more like another astonishingly tremendous good result ,if that is the only significant project problem .

And it also sounds like more OP
FAKE NEWS from the Un-American Mutants .

 

[SeaMajor7]

It doesn't matter if you don't care about what happens to the detainees, but why wouldn't you care that 450 million in your tax dollars went to a company who was provided with specs to build a facility that can withstand a Category 2 hurricane, yet it floods in the very first summer shower mere days after it was completed?

 

[fncceo]

but tents leaked after one rainstorm​

Reason #4,378 - to stay in your home country and NOT try to come here illegally.

 

[fncceo]

immigrants unlawfully detained

None of whom will ever end up there.

This is who ends up there.

"Maryland Dad" is something you made up in your sick, little minds.

 

[tyroneweaver]

You would think that one would eventually develop an immunity to the idiocy that is one display over and over again, but surprisingly it doesn't work that way. I'm still surprise to discover that I am genuinely disappointed by this news. It is alleged that this venture cost $450 million dollars and was built in 8 days. Doesn't that just reek of shoddiness and incompetence?

The facility — which was built in eight days — can withstand Category 2 winds, officials say​

By Chloe Greenberg on Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 1:13 pm


Official White House photo by Daniel Torok

Florida's newly opened immigrant detention center in the Everglades experienced water leaks after a thunderstorm Tuesday afternoon, while officials have maintained that the facility will be able to withstand hurricane season.

The storm came after the so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" opened Tuesday with a celebratory visit from President Trump and other state and federal officials. The 3,000-capacity tent center is comprised of aluminum frame tents which hold bunk beds inside metal cages. Detainees will be held here while awaiting deportation, officials say.

Following the grand opening, Spectrum News 13 Florida Capitol correspondent Jason Delgado shared video footage to X of water seeping into one of the tents and creating puddles amid the storm.

Meanwhile, Florida's head of emergency management Kevin Guthrie maintains that the facility — which was built in eight days — can withstand high-end Category 2 winds.

DeSantis administration officials say the leaks were fixed overnight.

“Any seam that had an issue where there was water leakage has already been fixed overnight,” DeSantis administration communications director Bryan Griffin said at a press conference Wednesday, as reported by the Florida Phoenix.

News story continued here:
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/officials-say-alligator-alcatraz-is-ready-to-withstand-hurricane-season-but-saw-water-leaks-after-one-rainstorm-39870841

have you talked to a j6'r about their living conditions....and they're american citizens

 

[WorldWatcher]

You know that's after he was moved out CECOT because of political and media pressure about his case.

ES eventually moved him to the medium security facility because of that. The propaganda video isn't what life was like at the CECOT Human Storage Facility.

This is an image from video that was the only clue that his wife had to know where he was. She ID'd him from his head scare on lion tattoo which resulted in the court filing after the Trump Administration disappeared him with no family contact and no access to legal counsel.

WW
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[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Inch and a half of rain......mere shower?

“Any seam that had an issue where there was water leakage has already been fixed overnight,” DeSantis’ communications director, Bryan Griffin, told reporters following a press conference Wednesday.
____________
FDEM spokesperson Stephanie Hartman wrote in a statement that vendors had tightened any seams at the base of the structures that allowed water to come in during the storm. She described the water intrusion as minimal.

Why do the three of you (JGalt & CellBlock2429) feel compelled to demonstrate your ignorance on the subject at hand or is it inadvertent, meaning you all just can't help yourselves?

They built the facility in a literal swamp — to take advantage of the man-eating alligators as a natural security perimeter — but didn’t account for the fact that South Florida gets drenched by daily vertical walls of water every summer?

Anyone who’s flown out of E-RAU or lived in that region knows: summer showers there aren’t a sprinkle. They’re flash-flooding, tower-canceling, lightning-cracking deluges that roll in like clockwork. If you don’t design for that, you’re not designing for Florida — you’re designing for failure.

So yes, it matters. Not just because people are being held there, but because hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars were spent on a 'hardened facility' that didn’t survive its first Tuesday storm.

Dumbasses, those who approved this project without putting the necessary thought and research into all aspects of it, as well as those excusing their negligence & the lack of oversight.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

A huge story of a leaking tent in a multi million development project .
It seems more like another astonishingly tremendous good result ,if that is the only significant project problem .

And it also sounds like more OP
FAKE NEWS from the Un-American Mutants .

You sound as ignorant as the people who work in IT that don't understand that a 'server' is meant to stay up and running continuously, that it shouldn't have to be rebooted every days.

Oh, and as ignorant as the people who makes excuses for their lack of knowledge & training.

 

[debbiedowner]

You would think that one would eventually develop an immunity to the idiocy that is one display over and over again, but surprisingly it doesn't work that way. I'm still surprise to discover that I am genuinely disappointed by this news. It is alleged that this venture cost $450 million dollars and was built in 8 days. Doesn't that just reek of shoddiness and incompetence?

The facility — which was built in eight days — can withstand Category 2 winds, officials say​

By Chloe Greenberg on Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 1:13 pm


Official White House photo by Daniel Torok

Florida's newly opened immigrant detention center in the Everglades experienced water leaks after a thunderstorm Tuesday afternoon, while officials have maintained that the facility will be able to withstand hurricane season.

The storm came after the so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" opened Tuesday with a celebratory visit from President Trump and other state and federal officials. The 3,000-capacity tent center is comprised of aluminum frame tents which hold bunk beds inside metal cages. Detainees will be held here while awaiting deportation, officials say.

Following the grand opening, Spectrum News 13 Florida Capitol correspondent Jason Delgado shared video footage to X of water seeping into one of the tents and creating puddles amid the storm.

Meanwhile, Florida's head of emergency management Kevin Guthrie maintains that the facility — which was built in eight days — can withstand high-end Category 2 winds.

DeSantis administration officials say the leaks were fixed overnight.

“Any seam that had an issue where there was water leakage has already been fixed overnight,” DeSantis administration communications director Bryan Griffin said at a press conference Wednesday, as reported by the Florida Phoenix.

News story continued here:
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/officials-say-alligator-alcatraz-is-ready-to-withstand-hurricane-season-but-saw-water-leaks-after-one-rainstorm-39870841

Just looking at it anyone can see it won't withstand a Cat 1 much less a 2.

I told my wife a couple days ago that it will be a tourist attraction and by God on the news last night people were driving up and taking pictures of it. I wonder if they can get their pics taken with any residents.

 

[Delldude]

Anyone who’s flown out of E-RAU or lived in that region knows: summer showers there aren’t a sprinkle. They’re flash-flooding, tower-canceling, lightning-cracking deluges that roll in like clockwork. If you don’t design for that, you’re not designing for Florida — you’re designing for failure.

Not sure if you're aware of the fact that these days, up and down the coastal plain, those are typical weather patterns.

10,500 foot runway and airport that was supposed to rival JFK in size and capacity and you're whining about rain?

They tell you when visiting Mehico don't drink the water......at Alligator Alcatraz they tell the Mexicans 'don't feed the alligators'.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Why do the three of you (JGalt & CellBlock2429) feel compelled to demonstrate your ignorance on the subject at hand or is it inadvertent, meaning you all just can't help yourselves?

They built the facility in a literal swamp — to take advantage of the man-eating alligators as a natural security perimeter — but didn’t account for the fact that South Florida gets drenched by daily vertical walls of water every summer?

Anyone who’s flown out of E-RAU or lived in that region knows: summer showers there aren’t a sprinkle. They’re flash-flooding, tower-canceling, lightning-cracking deluges that roll in like clockwork. If you don’t design for that, you’re not designing for Florida — you’re designing for failure.

So yes, it matters. Not just because people are being held there, but because hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars were spent on a 'hardened facility' that didn’t survive its first Tuesday storm.

Dumbasses, those who approved this project without putting the necessary thought and research into all aspects of it, as well as those excusing their negligence & the lack of oversight.

/——/ Serves as a deterrent. You’re happy to spend taxpayer money putting them up in 4 star hotels.

 

[Dragonlady]

Wouldn't it be awesome if a hurricane blew away the tents and the gators had a feeding frenzy on those invaders.

Yeah, the lawsuits from family members would be endless, and dwarf the millions paid out to the families Trump separated during his last administration. $450,000 per family.

Biden admin makes deal with migrants separated from families under Trump

The families also sought financial compensation from the U.S. government, but the Biden DOJ walked away from those negotiations two years ago.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Delldude]

Yeah, the lawsuits from family members would be endless, and dwarf the millions paid out to the families Trump separated during his last administration. $450,000 per family.

Biden admin makes deal with migrants separated from families under Trump

The families also sought financial compensation from the U.S. government, but the Biden DOJ walked away from those negotiations two years ago.

www.nbcnews.com

Separating families......who did it first, The Obama or Trump?

 

[Delldude]

Yeah, the lawsuits from family members would be endless, and dwarf the millions paid out to the families Trump separated during his last administration. $450,000 per family.

Liar.....

Biden says $450K payments to families separated at southern border are 'not going to happen'.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Not sure if you're aware of the fact that these days, up and down the coastal plain, those are typical weather patterns.

10,500 foot runway and airport that was supposed to rival JFK in size and capacity and you're whining about rain?

They tell you when visiting Mehico don't drink the water......at Alligator Alcatraz they tell the Mexicans 'don't feed the alligators'.

You're babbling...

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

/——/ Serves as a deterrent. You’re happy to spend taxpayer money putting them up in 4 star hotels.

That has nothing to do with spending 450 million dollars on a facility that was required to be built to specifications that required it to withstand a Cat 2 hurricane yet flooded in the first afternoon thunderstorm that Florida is known for.

"For anyone unfamiliar with Southern Florida weather patterns: yes, an inch and a half of rain is a summer shower. These storms are brief, brutal, and predictable — and they're part of daily life down there. Flight schools like E-RAU literally plan around the afternoon convective cycle because 2:00 PM brings towering cumulonimbus, lightning, and torrential downpours like clockwork.

So when a $450M facility built to hurricane specs floods from what locals would barely pause to comment on, the issue isn't the rain — it's the build quality. Florida contractors know better. Someone cut corners, and taxpayers footed the bill."

 

[Zincwarrior]

Wouldn't it be awesome if a hurricane blew away the tents and the gators had a feeding frenzy on those invaders.

You want think its great if people die?