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

[Delldude]

Florida contractors know better. Someone cut corners, and taxpayers footed the bill."

Leaked at several places where the wall/floor junction meet. Made the floor wet. Was easily fixed.


Drama Queens gonna cry.

 

[Dassin Dassin]

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.

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Any idiot who thinks that a tent is fit for human habitation in Florida in July needs to be spayed or neutered, to protect future generations.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

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

It would certainly save money on deportation flights.

 

[Dassin Dassin]

Leaked at several places where the wall/floor junction meet. Made the floor wet. Was easily fixed.


Drama Queens gonna cry.

And thus spake Yoda: strong in this one, the Asshole is.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

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?

Flood! Flood you say.

Liberals Laughably Label Small Puddle at Alligator Alcatraz as “Flood” – Whatfinger News' Choice Clips

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[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Leaked at several places where the wall/floor junction meet. Made the floor wet. Was easily fixed.

Drama Queens gonna cry.

And once again, the point sails right over your head.

This is Florida — it rains like that most every afternoon. Thunderstorms roll in, dump heavy rain for 30–60 minutes, then the sun comes back out and everything dries up. That’s not extreme weather — it’s baseline operating conditions.

There’s no drama here, only negligence — in both the hiring and execution of the contract. Why are you all so quick to excuse shoddy workmanship that taxpayers are forced to pay for?

If you paid $20,000 for a roof guaranteed to last 25 years, and it started leaking less than a week later, would you really wave it off as “just a little flooding” and say “it’s fixed now”?

Because that’s what happened here.

The facility was spec’d to withstand a Category 2 hurricane, yet it couldn’t handle a summer shower. That’s not a freak event — it’s a design failure.

So where’s that meritocracy Trump claimed he was installing? This isn’t just wasteful. It’s inexcusable.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

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

Trump has really turned your morality to diarrhea. Shameful.

 

[Delldude]

Any idiot who thinks that a tent is fit for human habitation in Florida in July needs to be spayed or neutered, to protect future generations.

Self deport.......

 

[Delldude]

Why are you all so quick to excuse shoddy workmanship that taxpayers are forced to pay for?

News reports contradict your lame claims.

I don't really give a shit either.

Can you hear me now?

 

[Dragonlady]

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."

The biggest donors to Trump's first Inaugural Fund were the owners of "for profit" prison companies. This is payback for their support. If the place washes away, so much the better. The cruelty is a feature, not a bug.

Trump's current budget allocates more money for ICE than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined. Trump has stopped prosecute CRIMINALS for actual CRIMES, to focus on ridding the USA of black and brown people, before the can become citizens and VOTE.

One can't help but notice that the Trump timed his phone call with Putin to come right after his Big Ugly Bill was passed. Trump has done what they set out to do - destroyed the American economy.

This is akin to the farmer killing the Goose that laid the Golden Egg. Global trade and world banking since WWII, set up by the USA to operate by rules most favorable to YOU, which have made the USA the most economically successful and richest nation the world has ever seen, has now been completely dismantled by Trump, who Putin has helped scam his way into the White House - twice.

The Trade War has destroyed your trade with the world, and been the biggest tax hike to American Consumers, in history. Welcome to Venezuela North.

 

[Dragonlady]

Liar.....

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

When did Biden say THAT - before or after the DOJ agreed to the settlement?

I posted links, you did NOT.

 

[Dragonlady]

News reports contradict your lame claims.

I don't really give a shit either.

Can you hear me now?

You're going to give a shit, when the rest of the world cancels Donald Trump's credit cards and raises the interest rate on your outstanding debt.

 

[Delldude]

The biggest donors to Trump's first Inaugural Fund were the owners of "for profit" prison companies

Wrong......it was Pilgrim's Pride.

 

[Delldude]

I posted links, you did NOT.

It's from your link ........

 

[Delldude]

And once again, the point sails right over your head.

Enough of the bellyaching......

Your concern should have been when Biden was letting all these illegals in.

'OMG our president is ignoring immigration law and letting these poor illegals into the country and they could end up at predeportation holding facilities in Arizona or the Everglades.'

'Oh the humanities'

 

[Cellblock2429]

Any idiot who thinks that a tent is fit for human habitation in Florida in July needs to be spayed or neutered, to protect future generations.

/----/ Committing crimes has consequences. Elections have consequences.
Are you old enough to remeber this hit show?

 

[Delldude]

Looks like we're open for business.....

 

[Muhammed]

Trump has really turned your morality to diarrhea. Shameful.

You're TDS makes you stupider by the day, moron.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Flood! Flood you say.

Liberals Laughably Label Small Puddle at Alligator Alcatraz as “Flood” – Whatfinger News' Choice Clips

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It shouldn't be leaking at all. For 450 million it damn sure shouldn't be leaking.

But the fact that you all find this acceptable is a large part of the problem.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Enough of the bellyaching......

Your concern should have been when Biden was letting all these illegals in.

'OMG our president is ignoring immigration law and letting these poor illegals into the country and they could end up at predeportation holding facilities in Arizona or the Everglades.'

'Oh the humanities'

And here come the excuses and whataboutisms.