Re: [IRCA] WOR Tower site not demolished

["Craig Healy" <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I suspect Scott F. was on the scene and will have the whole story..
>
> However did you guess? :-)

Because you TOLD us you would!  No galena crystal ball here! <snrk>

> The story is long, complicated, and will be in next Monday's NERW at
> fybush.com <ggg>, but in a nutshell, the developer that's taking WOR's
> old site was apparently responsible for getting all the necessary
> permits and notifying the authorities, and somewhere along the line the
> local police chief wasn't properly informed.
>
> The chief was legitimately concerned that drivers on the Turnpike (which
> runs right next to the site) would be alarmed, particularly right after
> the 9/11 anniversary, to see three 700-foot towers come tumbling down,
> and he said the appropriate authorities hadn't been notified so that
> they could deal with panicked drivers. He has a point there.

Talk about timing!  They should held off and scheduled it for April 1st.
Did you ever see the video about "Push Button to Destroy Building"?  They
had a box with a big red button with that title on a pole.  Several people
walked by and looked at it, shrugged and walked off.  Then some sleazy guy
shows up, looks around furtively, and presses the button.  BOOM!  In the
background of the video shot, a building blows up and falls to the ground.
Of course, it was all staged but it made a hilarious short movie.

> I suspect - and this is just a guess - that when the towers are finally
> brought down, it'll be early on a weekend morning and they'll shut down
> the west spur of the Turnpike when they do it.

Hopefully there will be some advance notice.  I wouldn't mind seeing that
myself..

> Oh, and PS - the plan ended up not involving any explosives. They were
> going to tighten the guy wires on two sides of the towers to max
> tension, then cut the wires on the third sides to bring the sticks down.

That's where explosives shine.  Put the correct shaped charge on the anchor,
and fire them off simultaneously.  It can be done from a safe distance, and
the amount of explosives is trivial.  They took down the major part of the
Jamestown Bridge here in RI with 75 pounds.  Three guy anchors probably
wouldn't take more than a few pounds each, if that.  Not much bang, but a
lot of show!

> Would have been a heck of a thing to see...wish they'd have figured this
> out BEFORE I spent $$$ on a plane ticket and all that time flying down
> and back!

Yeah.  That seems odd that the police didn't know of it.  Heck, I routinely
call the locals whenever I'm doing something out of the ordinary at a site.
I've gotten in the habit of a courtesy call even for normal tower climbing
for bulb replacements.

Craig Healy
Providence, RI

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