The building across the street from us has been undergoing demolition work since November. The going was fairly slow, and we kept waiting for something really exciting to happen. There had been a few exciting moments when they would cut chunks from the facade and let it fall 25 stories to the ground. A few days ago, they put up a notice that the building would be explosively demolished on Sunday morning between 6:30 and 7:30am. They told us that we would have to be >200m away from the property, and that those of us who's apartments faced the building would have to leave. So of course I did the only feasible thing one can do when faced with a 6:30am evacuation order; I invited all my friends over and we set up cameras and made Bloody Mary's.
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| Double click on this to open a new window. It may take a min to load, but it should be a looping mini movie made from my still photos. |
At about 7:15 with no real warning what so ever, and with a local transit train about 100m away (they never stopped the trains), the explosives went off and took the building down. I had a video camera on it as well as my wide angle lens on my SLR. I got 18 shots of the process before the cloud of dust completely covered the window and made it as dark as night inside of the apartment. When the dust settled people swarmed in to start cleaning the dust out of the street with brooms. There was some dust blowing into our house through the horribly sealed windows.
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| You can click any of the photos to open a much larger view... it is worth it |
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| total black out in the apartment... 3sec later it was literally pitch black |
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| Aftermath |
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| Dust that blew into our window though the shoddy weather stripping |
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| Bunch of guys with brooms to clean it up... and a random car driving through... it is ok though, the car had his hazard lights on so it is fine. |
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