- We're about 90% of the way through the garage
and all of a sudden, a beam breaks.
This beam is sagging, and it's holding the second floor.
And unfortunately, that second floor is a lot of weight
because it's a hoard.
At this point, we have to pull everybody out and wait
for a structural engineer to come and tell us if it's safe
or not.
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Is there anybody else in the house?
No.
Everyone is pulled out right now.
All right.
Everybody stay back.
Yeah.
That's a lot of weight.
Yeah, that's a significant failure.
You can hear-- you can hear it's still settling.
It's settling.
It's still settling.
Yeah.
That's in bad shape.
But I wouldn't mess around with anything
in the house, because just the vibrations alone
can cause that to collapse.
All that beam right there, and all the weight above it,
is on that point over there.
That whole beam and everything else can come crashing down.
We can have a catastrophic failure.
I have another concern in another part of the house.
Is there any way that you can look at that while you're here,
or do you want to stay out of this completely?
So I can look through the house,
but we need to be gentle, and everybody
needs to stay away from this.
Because we don't want anybody to get hurt.
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So you're going to go diagonally.
Yeah, that way.
So you're going to go straight back there.
We can look at structural stuff all the way here.
Electrical, everything is insane.
Yeah.
Where am I going?
Straight ahead, the staircase ahead of you.
That's our concern.
And we're going to go over the top of it.
But as you go up the stairs, look to your right.
The wall is completely separately from this floor.
Yeah.
And I don't know--
so I don't know what's on the other side of that
that's pushing back earth.
I have a feeling that this might be earth on this side.
And that's what I'm wondering.
Because if that's the case, then [inaudible]..
Yeah.
There's a risk of a significant failure.
OK, guys.
We brought you over.
Bill just inspected not only the garage,
but the second floor that we had some pretty
serious concerns about, too.
So I just want him to give you his version of what he found
and what his recommendation is as far as us working in there.
OK?
So with the garage, the board that was holding up
that beam has let go because there
was things keeping that board in place up against it.
But once those things are out of the way, that board gave out.
Well, now everything-- that beam is no longer supported,
so that needs to be dealt with immediately.
So that's really not safe.
And the biggest problem with that is because there's so much
weight on top of that beam, the littlest amount
of jarring to the building can cause that to collapse.
The other thing is we went inside,
and we looked at going up to that second floor.
The failures there are identical to this,
so the bottom to those boards have already pushed out.
And it appears that the things that are in the way, the items
that have been collected over the years
are what's holding things in place.
So a lot of it is pushed away and pushed out,
but the failure has already happened.
So translation is all of his stuff
is actually what is keeping the house from collapsing.
Right
I knew there was a good reason.
So this is a time to be really serious.
Yes, ma'am.
Because this translates into-- what, Cory?
So with only a couple of days left here,
that doesn't give us enough time to brace
everything, fix everything, and then clean the house.
It's just not going to happen.
So we have to regroup and see where
our time is going to be best spend
for the next couple of days.
It gives us a lot of time on the outside,
but we still need to address where Dale is going to live.
OK?
Because the trailer is not safe.
This isn't safe.
So I think that's a discussion, and we've got to start
thinking of some other options.
Bill, I need you to impress upon Dale
that he is not to go in there.
He's asked a couple times.
Let me go in there.
Let me fix it.
And I don't think he's really hearing what you're saying.
So I completely sympathize and understand
where he's coming from.
But you got to step back and let us do this,
because this one is so incredibly dangerous.
It may not be an issue of a hoard anymore.
It may be your grave.