We were probably about 80-100 yds from the building. The countdown begins 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - Fire in the Hole! Then the fireworks...a series of 16 blasts (close to 1300 pounds of dynamite) just BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!...to the point that the pavement under our feet was shaking, and then total implosion followed by a giant dust cloud. It was awesome!!!
A true feat of engineering too. The buildings in the background are Texas Children's and St. Luke's hospitals...you know they don't want any collateral damage to those buildings. We kept thinking about the poor people in The Best Western next to our viewing area that were awakened this morning by dynamite blasts...hopefully the manager pre-warned them.
Needless to say, we're hoooked and can't wait to experience another one!! The video at the bottom is not the actual building we saw demo'ed, but I put it on here so you could get an idea for the sound...it's pretty darn close to what we experienced. Oh, and the last picture is our souveniers...fake dynamite filled with red hots :)
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I was at work today and felt the explosion in my unit. A lot of people went to watch it. Debris ended up shattering some of the windows they were watching out of . . . crazy.
Those pics are great. And y'all are cool because you woke up early to watch a demolition!
so crazy! i just saw on the news how they have delayed clean-up efforts and a crime scene investigator is out there with police dogs looking for a body. apparantly some one may have gone inside the building.....you would think they would have had it pretty well fenced off?
that is awesome! totally sounds like something we would enjoy watching (the pictures alone were pretty cool).
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