Posted by tunneldude I pray this place does not take someone’s life. To explore a place that has already been laced with and exploded with explosives is just unsettling for me. Please if you choose to explore it use EXTEME CAUTION. I do not recommend anyone going in but hey that’s just me and my two cents.
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I appreciate the warning but I doubt you will need to worry too much about that. When they do a big implosion like this (successful or unsuccessful) generally they exclude everyone well prior to placing the explosives, including all the brave urbexers, i.e. nobody is getting close to it without some damn good ID or credentials from the contractor or the cops. Trust me I watched one for 24hrs before it went boom boom boom boombaboom...
The biggest risk was to the guys that had to walk back in after the failure, drill new holes and place new charges. No thanks but hey, they screwed up and somebody gotta make it happen. Typically an engineer makes the decisions on which load bearing columns or structures get broken in what sequence and where, a demo expert then determines how much pop each wall or support column requires based on size, rebar and weight on top. Their goal is to use as little as possible but still result in controlled collapse.