Hard Rock Hotel Crane Implosion Today Between Noon and 5pm

egads....from OP's link:

One body was recovered, but the bodies of two other construction workers remain in the unstable wreckage.

90 minutes until the boom according to someone in the chat.

[link to www.nola.com (secure)]

From the article:

Two giant, badly damaged construction cranes towering over a partially collapsed hotel project are to be demolished Saturday with a series of controlled explosions in hopes of dropping them straight down without damaging nearby businesses and historic buildings around the site at the edge of the French Quarter.

New Orleans Fire Department Superintendent Tim McConnell described a plan involving workers suspended from another crane using blow torches and attaching explosives at key points. One of the crane towers is about 270 feet high, the other is taller. Both have massive cross arms adding more tonnage. Neither is stable.

McConnell said an already wide evacuation area around the site would be expanded ahead of the explosion. Gas to a major utility line that runs along North Rampart Street was being shut down and steps were being taken to protect that line and underground electrical lines that could be affected by falling debris. McConnell said the line would be severely damaged were a crane to land on it.

If the operation is successful, McConnell said, the towers will drop vertically and simultaneously. "Think of it like it's melting," he told reporters.

9/11/01

Thread: The moment the construction site for the Hard Rock Hotel collapsed on Canal Street Saturday morning. Injuries reported. Stay with WWL-TV for m

The local newspaper has the audacity to put up pay walls to read stories or view details. I bitched to the governor and some other local media about it. There ought to be a law.

Here is another local news station:
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Watch this guys your gonna see like what they did to Number 7 on 9/11!

Around noon? Could they be a bit more vague?

Will they use kerosene to knock it down?

Some of the experts involved in the 9/11 demolitions are working on this one.

I believe they are hanging baskets of explosives on the cranes.

Blowing Shit Up - Is quicker than Affirmative-Action...!

Just skip-over the degeneracy, despair, drugs, crime, and Mongrel-Theism...

They both wind up in a pile of rubbish?
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Wow, what a waste of time and money. Everybody knows, you just douse it with kerosene and light it up, the steel will melt like peanut butter.

Look at this story from NOLA (dot) com

[link to www.nola.com (secure)]

and here on twitter

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Are we gonna find pristine passports in the rubble?

WWL Live Feed via YouTube;

The extra crane just lowered the man in the basket, must be getting close. Wonder if they have to move the crane before they melt it?

Fox 8 also has a live feed, with a different view on Facebook.
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There is a live, second angle, view of this on their website.
[link to www.wwltv.com (secure)]

Before the detonation crews will be going door to door to make sure everyone has left the area. City leaders say the earliest it happens will likely be 12 but could be later in the afternoon WVUE FOX 8 News [link to www.facebook.com (secure)]

Man those cranes are worth a lot of money. Damn, for it all to just come crashing down into a rubble heap is disheartening for the owners of the cranes.

Will the insurance company pay for their destruction?

Now postponed to at least 2PM CT

LOL 2 women talking about this hahaha

Meh, I give up.

It will be on every newscast for the next two days anyway.

Pull it

I gotta say, I don't see this going well.

Drop both of these cranes straight down cross arms and all and nothing gets sideways???

Counter weights are there, cables, lot of structure that is designed to withstand massive forces.

Someone thinks it's all going to crumble to glass?

Cannot see how that works.