Hard Rock Hotel Crane Implosion Today Between Noon and 5pm

I must say, this is the first time I'm seeing this whole thing up close.

This is a mess and an engineering or construction fuckup of monumental proportions. It'll be one that get's studied hard and they make "Epic disaster" shows about.

I would not be shocked if this thing didn't make it till tomorrow.

Right. I will keep checking the news for updates. They said one of the cranes had shifted and is leaning further than before. This hotel was doomed from the start.

is this the first hard rock hotel? I tried to search but the only thing that came up was this event

Right. I will keep checking the news for updates. They said one of the cranes had shifted and is leaning further than before. This hotel was doomed from the start.

Yeah well that's a very compact 40 tons. Drop that block 200 ft into the anything? It's going through it.

They were saying gas lines under the street? Like dropping a brick on butter.

Oh lord, what about the crumbling drainage system running under the streets and the sewage and water systems?

This could get ugly.

Yeah well that's a very compact 40 tons. Drop that block 200 ft into the anything? It's going through it.

They were saying gas lines under the street? Like dropping a brick on butter.

Delayed till Noon Sunday now...more popcorn tomorrow lol

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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.

There are several.

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I think that was sarcasm.

True that, they might go so deep into the Orleans swamp they just leave them there!

Until we have a sarcasm font, I try to give people the benefit of a doubt. So, I did a search and gave them an actual answer.

Lol what is prvailing wage to be dangled from a crane with a torch and explosives working on an unstable structure? Is OSHA ok with this?

Until we have a sarcasm font, I try to give people the benefit of a doubt. So, I did a search and gave them an actual answer.

The two cranes will be imploded today, around noon. A local tv station is streaming a view of the hotel.

Here is the story:
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*Update: The demolition is postponed to Sunday afternoon, no exact time given yet.

Hard Rock Hotel owner missed deadline to pay for crane demolition The demolition team required $5 million payment prior to implosion...

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Money, money, money. It is always about the money.

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?

Color me confused. I see the two cranes that look fine. I see the building that looks like OLD collapsed metal of several floors like half the building on that one corner.
What caused it? It looked like it was like that before any "crane" collapsed.

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