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Posted: 3/21/2006 10:19:19 PM EDT

Background

and pics...before and after. i was using my camera to record a video of it, so no stills of that.

Posted: 3/22/2006 5:06:57 AM EDT

[#1]

Why'd they bring her down? I'd imagine she was pretty big for FW.

Posted: 3/22/2006 5:10:19 AM EDT

[#2]

Man, we really wanted to go see that, but just didn't make it out.

Thanks for posting the pics, Rakky. Cool.

Posted: 3/22/2006 5:17:37 AM EDT

[#3]

It was a big building in Ft. Worth, some say it was the biggest to ever be imploded. What was the second set of explosives that happened around 1300ish hrs? I felt them. The first went of at 740hrs but all I saw was fog and more fog.

Posted: 3/22/2006 5:24:30 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Why'd they bring her down? I'd imagine she was pretty big for FW.

I think that was one of the buildings that got torn up pretty badly in the tornado a few years back, wasn't it?

Posted: 3/22/2006 5:29:47 AM EDT

[#5]

Isn't physics fun?

Posted: 3/22/2006 6:01:38 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
It was a big building in Ft. Worth, some say it was the biggest to ever be imploded. What was the second set of explosives that happened around 1300ish hrs? I felt them. The first went of at 740hrs but all I saw was fog and more fog.

It was the 8th tallest building in FW at 419 feet including the clock. The tallest ever demolition (not including 9-11) was the Singer Building in NYC at 612 feet.

Posted: 3/22/2006 6:07:06 AM EDT

[#7]

How much exlposives?
How many days to set it up?
How much structure had to be removed to facilitate the demo?

Posted: 3/22/2006 6:07:16 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Why'd they bring her down? I'd imagine she was pretty big for FW.

I think that was one of the buildings that got torn up pretty badly in the tornado a few years back, wasn't it?

Yup.

Posted: 3/22/2006 11:04:32 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
It was a big building in Ft. Worth, some say it was the biggest to ever be imploded. What was the second set of explosives that happened around 1300ish hrs? I felt them. The first went of at 740hrs but all I saw was fog and more fog.

That was thunder!!! I had just gotten up at the hotel from a 2 hour nap and heard that. Thought maybe they'd had so much fun with the Landmark that they had decided to blow up another one.

Posted: 3/22/2006 11:05:53 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
How much exlposives?
How many days to set it up?
How much structure had to be removed to facilitate the demo?

384 lbs, I believe. They've been working since November preparing. They dug a huge pit for it to collapse in, and stripped most everything out from the interior. Left the windows for some reason, though. Shattered glass was everywhere.