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Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun via AP
The former Ohio Edison Mad River Power Plant’s 275-foot smoke stack in Springfield, Ohio falls toward spectators and surrounding buildings as it falls the wrong way during its demolition, Nov. 10, 2010. There were no injuries reported in the accident but power was knocked out for more than 8000 customers when the smoke stack crushed several pieces of power equipment.
See a video of the demolition below.
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Well, it fell to the right, if you were standing on this side of it,..... uhh.. you were standing on that side of it... ohhhh.... Sorry !
Apparently it was a democratic tower because it fell to the left.
TeeHee
Someone didn't do their set-up right or didn't do their math/equation correctly. Now, where did I leave that slide rule?
Video is priceless...good thing it wasn't a 30 story building.
OMG! That was the John Boehner tower!
You are mistaken. The John Boehner tower has more of an orange tint to it.
I am glad no one was hurt! Is this what happens when girls blow things up?!
No, it's what happens when Democrats blow things up.
The good news is, it's down now. Let say, what if it's just standing there and wait a bird or something stop by to give a little push!
They should have used the guys on TV they always get it right.
Hope no one was injured in all of that. Funny how the smartest one of the bunch is the little girl.. She high tails it out of there first.
That does not describe the shockingness of this video.
Union labor?
New book out - "Demolition for Dummies"
Should have been done by the crew that did Building 7..........
DOH!
As usual an overhead line crew will have to make repairs and clean up the demo crews screw up. God said "let there be light" and He created a lineman........aaaaaarrrrrriiiiiiiiiiite!!!! U kno dat!!!!
The Substation crew will be working on this mess a lot longer than the line crews. Just sayin'... If it hit oil circuit breakers or worse yet, a power transformer, yikes!!! We're talking millions of $$$.
I got a charge out of this video.............
Oh, you meant your left not mine, got it.
that had to be (yes I lean left but I don't think this is what I meant) one of the best jokes I've read here in ages. You've got me in tears. If it had imploded like it should have it would be center... :P Now was it supposed to implode or fall over?? Cedar Falls IA High school has a crack in it's smoke stack as it was discovered today. Fortunately it's an old metal one from the early 50's. So they welded support beams to it, but just to be safe classes are canceled tomorrow. :) Oh well. Thats via wind.. Just another video to add to my brain. Like the one that blew up and flipped upside down intact. O_O
Nice! Actually laughed out loud.
if you were on the left side of it you were on the right side of it when it fell.
... Great tragedy on the Ohio River ... Mothman Prophecies !
Mad River, however I think the Mothman had something to do with it also!!
rates will surely rise to cover the cost of this F--- up!
Undoubtedly the work of the Israeli Mossad, seeking to direct blame onto Islamic terrorists....
Typical comment from an anti-semetic, Iran loving FOOL!
and typical response from a knee jerk reactionary not knowing this is satire unless this is satire.. then again can I drop my shorts? the belt broke. :P have you been reading the comments. This would be the typical response when you watch a group adults f**k up in front of a bunch of children and show the dangers of electricity. O_O camera was on a tripod so that wasn't moving. someone was smart and move the camera in the right direction.
sarcasm; some people don't get it
wonder if the demolition crew will ever get hired again anywhere! that is a real looloo!
Wtf? sorry about that!
Were any Republican Tea Bag's or AIPAC Zionist foreign agents seen in the area prior to this tower falling in the wrong way? IF so that would explain the resulting unforeseen disaster.
A. Smith-1451820, this is completely off-topic. Mind the Code of Honor.
foreign made explosives ,,,,
Nope! That was the Republicans saving money on explosives! Or maybe they were saving breath to blow hard somewhere else!
Yeah Chuck, keep up the demonizing. Does it make you feel better? Now, if someone had blogged: "That's what you get for using union help.", you'd be outraged. Pathetic that you have to put a partisan political spin on this.
Good one Leroy !!
Wow... what a great demolition team! Was it the teenager and the little girl in the video?!
Yes childrens services should have a field day with the contractors kids in a demolition
area
Not only did they have a child on site, but it was the child who had to tell them "we have to move"=P
Teamwork.
they had more than one. the adult says Kids 9 8 7 6..... and nothing but kids counting down
Oh well, sucks to be the 8000 customers.
was'nt it the ohio edison company that a squirell caused the 2004 east coast black out, sure am glad that tower falling the wrong way did'nt black us out again.
And I thought that I work with stupid people. This made my day....
Epic FAIL!
EPIC FALL! I feel bad for those 8000 customers.
houston - I thunk we have a problem...... So how many of these smokestacks need to be demo'd before the demo guys realize they seem to have problems like most of the time......
the not so smart grid
No do overs Huh?
Were BP or Haliburton involved?
I don't think so but it did knock out the power to the BP station a block away!
Your MIlitary right, next time we use arrows pointing the way to go...
My niece and nephew use a phrase that I certainly think applies here.
"EPIC FAIL!"
As horrifying as that had to have been, assuming that no one got hurt, I can say that in spite of the aftermath, watching the video is certainly comic relief.
The sequence of explosions was way off. Someone set something in the wrong order or there was a console malfunction.
Sh*t happens!
Wrong order, possible but not likely. I spent 27 years working in the explosive business. What could have happened though is this: 1. Not enough explosives placed in the proper location. 2. Nobody accounted for the extra re-bar inside the concrete. 3. There could have been an inner wall. When the first charge went off the energy could have been displaced through the cavity of that wall. The second explosion could have then weakened the exterior of the structure improperly which then could have caused it to collapse in the wrong direction. My main concern with this is what idiot and I do mean idiot, would have allowed people to stand underneath power lines with a tower close enough to hit them, in the event the tower went the wrong way? Especially with a power station nearby. Accidents do happen but in this case their inability to take into consideration the possibility of "what if it goes the wrong way" was inexcusable. The company or individual who allowed this to happen and jeopordized the lives of innocent people for the sake of fame has no business working with explosives. They were extremely fortunate no one was killed. Suggestion stick to the Fourth of July fire works and leave the blasting to professionals.
Washington Blaster - Also, the job lacked a good written risk assesment.
Washington Blaster - Thank you for providing plausible reasons for the accident. 27 years in explosives - you didn't happen to go to U of M @ Rolla did you?
My thoughts exactly I don't know if they were close enough to actually have it fall on them but I'd say defiantly close enough to have been hit by debris had it fallen their direction and yeah what were they even thinking standing under the lines that's just stupid. Good thing they were not high tension lines if they were high enough voltage the residual in the lines could have killed somebody easily and even arched to someone with out actually coming in contact with them. Also that could have easily snaped those poles when it hit the lines and brought it down right on a spectator.
the not so smart grid
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH is that a booboo or what????
It's a smoke stack...it's made of concrete and iron/steel rebar....if it were bamboo It might have bounced...also if it were bamboo it would catch fire...because it's a smoke stack...
Cut, you might want to read Michelles comment again. She wrote booboo not bamboo. lol
what goes up - must come down - but where?
Aint physics a B!TCH!!!!!!
Watching the video was great, but no one said "timber"!
ok, timber